Advantages of a Boutique Firm

Creative Solutions

Carrying out resource-conscious, cost-effective bankruptcy litigation requires lawyers with experience and wisdom, skilled a forging consensus among adversary parties, and working within the finite resources and time constraints of a chapter 11 case.

Trial Lawyers

Our lawyers carry significant trial experience, which allows them to often outperform larger groups of attorneys by carefully anticipating and managing every phase of a case. Many of our attorneys also utilize the experience gained from clerking in trial courts and working as public prosecutors or private (conflict-panel) defenders.

Direct Contact

You call our firm and you get a live person on the line – usually the principal, Matt Metzger, Esq.

Low Overhead

We do not carry on our our shoulders the large overhead that burdens larger firms.   We pass on this cost-savings to clients.

Results matter

For over 10 years, we have tried and litigated complex, high-stakes, bankruptcy, civil and criminal cases throughout California, obtaining the best possible results for our clients.  We take the tough cases, the make or break cases where the financial future of companies and individuals are riding on the result. It’s in the nature of tough cases to end up in court where our expertise shines. Indeed, we have found our eagerness to try cases often helps them settle.

Success Across Practice Areas

Our areas of expertise include bankruptcy (representing debtors and non-institutional creditors) intellectual property (representing plaintiffs and defendants in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets matters), unfair business practices and securities cases, general contract and commercial litigation, antitrust, white collar, and appellate.

Results-Driven Strategy

We design and execute innovative strategies in close consultation with our clients. Depending on the case, our litigation strategy may involve gutting an opponent’s case through strategic motions, prevailing at trial, or positioning the case for the best possible settlement.

Carrying out cost-effective litigation strategies requires strategic thinkers who exercise top-notch judgment.   Starting from our earliest days in criminal courts, we have significant trial experience, which allows us to often outperform larger groups of attorneys by carefully anticipating and managing every phase of a case.   We also utilize the experience gained from clerking for trial judges , and working as public prosecutors or private (conflict-panel) defenders.