Landlord/Tenant

Business relationships deepen or deteriorate based on trust.  Clear and honest communication leads to trust.  Our method involves drilling down to get past the pretenses and prevarication that too often characterize business communications and get down to the real issues underpinning the conflict between the parties.  We work with our clients to propose proactive solutions to problems and set out clear consequences for breaches and broken promises on our adversary’s part.

Good negotiations require a singular focus on the objective from our standpoint, while still recognizing the value proposition from both sides of the table. We believe in clearly articulating our client’s position and the available paths to resolution. In many cases, business negotiations are treated like a game of poker where each side hides their cards, but this tends to delay resolution and prolong the dispute. Instead, we try to be clear and transparent in negotiation.

We find that this direct approach to negotiation leads to a meaningful dialogue over workable options, focuses the discussion around acceptable compromises, and is the quickest path to resolving the dispute.

As soon as preliminary negotiations fall through, we relentlessly marshal our proofs and prepare the case, driving forward until the case is adjudicated or until an acceptable resolution is reached.

Our trial lawyers are born to engage in the arena.  Nothing is more satisfying than going to battle, standing your ground, and emerging victorious.  That said, business is business.  Neither the business world nor the court process is a “zero sum” game.  Relationships last decades and sometimes span generations.  Sometimes legal cases do as well.  The best deals and the most lasting reconciliations benefit everyone.  Our trial lawyers are practical businesspeople as well as competitors.  We are keenly aware that the tides of uncertainty and the changing stakes of conflict can lead to a deal at any moment.