Our Firm

In addition to knowledge and experience, we offer important differences to our clients.

Stewart Strong offers legal representation across a strategic range of practice areas that helps leaders in key industries succeed. Our carefully constructed team is small enough to offer flexibility and cost efficiency and large enough to support the infrastructure necessary to respond to the most challenging issues our clients face…at a moment’s notice. With the leadership of practitioners who measure their experience in multiple decades, we have the ability to anticipate obstacles, seize opportunities and get the case resolved or the deal done—and the know-how to prevent it from being undone.

We believe there are three differentiating factors that provide clients with a different, and better, experience when they choose Stewart Strong.

1. We have internal industry knowledge.

In our former roles in the legal and administrative departments of organizations such as consulting firms, banks, and hospital systems, many of our attorneys have functioned as a part of the clients they now represent. This means advice and work product are strongly influenced by first-hand knowledge of what will be useful to a client, and what will not. Many lawyers can obtain a correct answer to a question. Our attorneys stand apart by using their experience as the recipients of good (and poor) legal advice. This experience enables us to provide not only correct answers but also practical solutions.

2. We will tell you if we believe another firm can serve you better.

Unfortunately, we have encountered attorneys and firms who “never met a client they couldn’t help” and “never saw a matter they couldn’t handle.” We categorically reject the notion that any attorney or firm can be all things to all clients. While we assist clients with a wide range of areas, we also understand that some matters are best handled by a firm or attorney with skills or experience we do not possess. When this is the case, our policy is simple: we tell the client and assist with obtaining the best counsel for the job. We have been told this is unwise and represents a voluntary relinquishment of opportunity. We disagree. This approach allows us to continually earn the trust of our existing clients and actually produces many enthusiastic referrals of new clients.

3. We check our egos at the door.

We have consistently observed that personality can greatly augment or impair an attorney’s effectiveness as well as the quality of a client’s experience. This is why we have chosen a team of professionals who share similarly open and amicable demeanors. These traits are critically important because they are catalysts for communication. Through our experience as both attorneys and clients, we have come to know that any legal advice is only as valuable as an attorney’s ability to effectively communicate the advice so that a client can understand and act on it.