The people who will handle your matter

How the firm is staffed

The lawyer you meet in the first conversation is the lawyer who handles the matter. There is no pitch team that hands you to someone else after the engagement letter is signed, and no layer of junior attorneys learning your case at your expense. Matters are staffed for what they require rather than for utilization targets.

That has a cost, and we would rather state it than hide it. A boutique cannot absorb an unlimited number of simultaneous crises. When we are not the right firm for a matter — because of conflicts, capacity, or because it needs a capability we do not have — we say so at the outset and, where we can, point you somewhere better.

Where our lawyers come from

Federal practice is learned inside the institutions that run it. Our attorneys have worked as prosecutors and agency counsel, clerked in the federal courts, staffed congressional committees, and practiced in firms where these matters are tried rather than settled reflexively. That background is why a comment letter from this firm anticipates the administrative record a court of appeals will review, and why our congressional work accounts for the criminal exposure a transcribed interview can create.

Individual biographies

Attorney biographies, bar admissions, court admissions, and prior government service are provided directly to prospective clients on request, and are furnished as a matter of course before any engagement letter is signed. If you would like the background of the specific lawyers who would handle your matter before you schedule a consultation, contact the firm and ask — we will send it.

We would rather give you that information in a form tailored to your matter than publish a directory that tells you which lawyer has the most impressive photograph.

Admissions and jurisdictional limits

The firm maintains offices in Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Tulsa. Not every attorney is admitted in every one of those jurisdictions. Where an attorney is not admitted locally, that attorney's practice is limited to federal matters and to work permitted under the applicable rule on multijurisdictional practice, and state-law matters are handled with locally admitted counsel. Appearances in courts where an attorney is not admitted are made pro hac vice. Federal agency practice is not geographically limited.

Non-attorney professionals

The firm employs policy and investigative professionals who are not licensed attorneys. They support legislative strategy, agency engagement, and factual development. They do not give legal advice, and any person you deal with who is not an attorney will identify themselves as such.

Joining us

We hire for judgment and writing ability before credentials. See Careers.