Ottoline Ravenel
Founding partner, contract and business disputes
Leads the firm's contract cases and most of its trials.
Lawyers
Three trial lawyers, each a second chair
Every case at the firm has a lead lawyer and a second. The lead runs the strategy and argues; the second drafts, prepares witnesses and knows the file as well. If one of us is in trial, the other answers your call.
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.
How a case is staffed
A lead
Chosen for the kind of dispute. Sets the strategy, takes the depositions that matter and argues the motions.
A second chair
Drafts the pleadings and discovery, preps your witnesses and sits beside the lead at mediation and trial.
No juniors billed in
There are no associates learning on your file. The fee is the same whoever does the work.
Ask which of us would lead your case
Tell us what the dispute is about and we suggest a lead and a second, with the first stage's fee.