Counsel
A boutique firm for companies and families who still want someone to read the file. Litigation, private counsel, and the matters that do not belong in a volume shop.
The practice
Selected work
Contracts, shareholder fights, the cases that decide a company.
A second brain for owners who already have a generalist.
Families, trusts, the work that has to last longer than the argument.
Internal reviews. Quiet, complete, and written so a board can act.
Retain
We do not take every fight. If we take yours, it is because we can finish it.
How the firm runs
If we have not sat with the papers, we do not have an opinion yet. Strategy comes after that, not before.
Advice that cannot survive a letter is not advice. Clients leave with something they can act on.
You do not get handed down. The name on the letter is the person who will stand up.
If we are the wrong firm, we say so. That is cheaper than discovering it in month six.
About
Hart & Vale opened in 1998 as two desks and a borrowed conference room. It is still small on purpose. We take commercial fights, private counsel, and the family matters that need a grown-up in the room.
Chicago and Cleveland. We travel when the file requires it. We do not advertise a national footprint we do not staff.
A matter
A first conversation. No engagement letter until we know what you actually have.
The papers, the emails, the thing nobody wanted to put in writing. Then a view.
Fight, settle, or wait. Written so you can take it to a board or a kitchen table.
We stay until the last filing or the last signature. Then the file closes.
Admitted & heard
Counsel
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