Excellence
Service Range Breadth
We continually assess our staffing to ensure we have the
full range of high-end specialty services our clients need to provide them with the best
possible service and results.
Service Range Depth
We staff each of our practices to handle high volume to
assure our clients that an influx of work will not affect service and that our lawyers can
still enjoy balance in their lives.
Technical Expertise
We recruit and retain lawyers and staff with the
technical skills and experience necessary to provide our clients with world-class service.
Value
Service Delivery
We've created an unrivaled geographic delivery system in the central and
eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware region to better serve our
clients. We employ the latest technology to link our offices and
attorneys to one another and to our clients. Our offices are located
strategically throughout the region in every city where a federal
district court sits, where a federal bankruptcy court sits, and where
important state courts sit. These linked locations allow us to deliver
premium service to our clients no matter where they or we are physically
located. Our word processing department operates 24-hours a day, seven
days a week assisting us in providing world-class service.
Relationships
We plant roots in the communities where we're located and build personal
and professional relationships with political, business and community
leaders throughout the region and in Washington, D.C., as well as with
the financial infrastructure. Our relationships not only help us grow
our business, they also assist us in helping our clients help each
other.
Segment Expertise
We strive to understand our clients and the industries they compete in through focused
research and study. We actively research companies and industries and seek the advice of
consultants, clients and business leaders to learn, learn, learn! Our ongoing commitment
to our clients is expressed in terms of our willingness and capacity to understand what's
going on in their businesses and industries. Our clients repeatedly tell us how much they
appreciate dealing with professional service providers who understand them. We've also
made it a priority to have lawyers who bring us occupational and educational backgrounds
that are valuable to our clients. Some of our lawyers were CEOs, CFOs, economists, line
managers, engineers, geologists, bankers, accountants and analysts in their prior lives.
This diversity helps us to better understand what it's like to sit on our clients' side of
the table.
Understanding, Anticipation &
Innovation
This is a game of "know and tell" - and the stakes can be high. We take what
we've learned through study and experience and apply it to each client's unique situation.
Being knowledgeable yet objective, we are often able to identify opportunities and suggest
innovative ideas or solutions to our clients, very often involving the use of our
relationships. If something's coming down the pike, we hear about it and we talk about it.
Our clients deserve good ideas from knowledgeable and informed counsel to head off
problems, gain competitive advantages and create new business opportunities.
Management
We run our firm as a business. We continually test our vision and mission against the
realities of a changing world. Our professional non-lawyer management team makes it easier
for our attorneys to manage - or not have to. Our clients know and admire our strategy -
they're paying for good legal work done by lawyers who are part of a professional
corporation whose professional management strives to keep overhead low.
WHY WE'RE A FIRM OF CHOICE
We have become the firm of choice for a large number of high caliber,
motivated lawyers seeking a change. Lawyers are attracted to our firm for four principal
reasons:
- Economics: We are among the lowest overhead, highest margin large law
firms in the country, allowing our partners to realize a greater return on their time and
efforts, and providing our associates with an excellent opportunity for growth. We also
have one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry with no funded debt or
obligations to retired lawyers.
- Culture: Sharing, mutual respect and empathy for each other
characterize our culture. Turnover is extremely low.
- Management: We provide the professional planning, management
and administration our lawyers need to grow as professionals, better serve our clients and
increase our client base.
- Security: We maintain a fully funded pension plan
for the benefit of our lawyers and non-lawyer staff.
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WHY WE'RE SUCCESSFUL
