Ottoline Ravenel
Founding partner, contract and business disputes
Leads the firm's contract cases and most of its trials.
Civil litigation, on flat fees
Your lawsuit, priced before it begins
Three trial lawyers in Charlotte for contract, partnership and construction disputes. We sue and we defend, for owner-run companies and the people who own them, and we meet clients anywhere in the state by video.
In figures
The arithmetic of a fixed fee
5
Stages, each pricedFrom assessment to trial
0
Hourly invoicesNever by the tenth of an hour
2
Lawyers on every caseA lead and a second chair
Fees cover our work only. Court costs, filing and service fees, experts, deposition transcripts and the mediator's or arbitrator's fee are separate, billed at cost.
The lawyers
Who stands up when your case is called
Each of us leads some cases and is second chair on the rest. You meet both lawyers on your case in the first call, and the same two see it through.
Amadou Fairclough
Partner, construction and property disputes
Payment claims, liens and defect cases, for builders, trades and owners.
Saoirse Mabry
Partner, partner and shareholder disputes
Buyouts, deadlocks and the breakup of closely held companies.
Practice
The disputes we take on
We represent plaintiffs and defendants. Most clients are companies of a few to a few dozen people, and the owners behind them.
Unpaid invoices, broken supply and service agreements, non-competes, and deals that came apart after signing.
Deadlocked owners, buyouts, withheld distributions, and claims that a partner broke their duties to the company.
Payment claims and liens, defects, delay, and disputes between owners, builders and trades.
When a case will not settle, we try it: to a judge, a jury or an arbitration panel.
Forums
Where your case may be heard
We appear in person when a court requires it and by video when it allows. Everything before then happens on a call.
- County superior court
- County district court
- Business court
- Federal district court
- Federal court of appeals
- Private arbitration
Served with papers?
Send the complaint before the deadline runs
A lawsuit gives you a short time to answer, and the clock started when you were served. Send what you received, or the demand you were about to send, and we reply with the first stage's fee and what it covers.