Sun Tzu, Legal Budgets & New Firm!

The Number One Reason Legal Budgets Are Too High

If you paid an opponent too much to settle a case, or if you paid your own lawyers too much to win a case, Sun Tzu knows why:

if victory is long in coming, . . . if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

Your opponent didn't have to read the Art of War to figure that out. They just had to think about the best way to fight a huge firm filled with expert lawyers: artificially increase the length and complexity of the dispute, forcing you to outspend them at a geometric rate.

Your Solution Is Strategic Deployment

For massive competitor matters or investigations, deploy a large firm--DLA Piper is a great example of a firm that can manufacture all the fire power you'd ever need.

For moderate matters, hold your big-firm-army in reserve and send out a specialist.

I'm proud to announce that I joined one such specialist--and an exceptional one at that. Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll LP is an amazing firm comprised of qualified, earnest, strategic lawyers. They are experts in every regard that the big firms are, except size and cost:

• Median law school rank of lawyers: 9 (data from US News, 2020)
• Lawyers have previous experience at firms such as Skadden, Kirkland, Latham, Paul Weiss, Sidley, Quinn Emmanuel, DLA Piper, Mayer Brown, Winston & Strawn, McDermott Will, Jenner & Block, and more
• Senior lawyers often charge less than junior associates at big firms

Fox Swibel Can Help You Whether You Hire Us or Not

1. If you hire us, we'll ensure that you can take your case to the end without breaking the bank.
2. We'll maintain good relationships with your large firms (having worked at many them ourselves), in case matters escalate and larger teams are needed
3. If you want to keep your options open instead, we'll give you a budget you can use to benchmark against large firm proposals during the RFP process.