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For more than a quarter of a century the attorneys who comprise
Olsen & Brown L.L.C. have provided effective legal strategies
for clients in many life’s pursuits, stages of business,
and all manner of personal and business disputes and claims.
The firm has provided meaningful, legally sophisticated,
and, at all times, practical advice in hundreds of fact patterns
in which decisionmaking is important to clients who want
individualized attention and a hands-on attorney to master
the facts of, and law applicable to, their own cases.
There is a recognition among some attorneys that big is not
only not better in the practice of law but it sometimes adversely
impacts the effectiveness of representation, as some large
law firms divide up their clients’ work among less-experienced
attorneys who have a concern about billable hours. There is
a built-in impetus to drive up a client’s bill, as some
law firms actually publish their attorneys’ billable
hours by attorney-name within the firm at the end of each month,
and “making partner” depends in part upon such
factors as billable hours and so-called “rain-making,” rather
than simply providing the best legal advice possible to every
client.
In litigation, a more experienced trial attorney may come
in at the last moment to take over a case on which only lower-level
attorneys, or even paralegals or “legal assistants,” have
focused during pre-litigation or pre-trial stages. Clients
wonder what can account for such a large bill or justify a
partner who does not seem effectively knowledgeable of the
finer details of their position in court or arbitration. Clients
can be suddenly -- and stunningly -- disappointed by the results.
The negative, sometimes devastating, outcome is often not known
until the jury’s verdict, judge’s decision, or
arbitrator’s award is announced, and then a detailed
ex post facto analysis speculates on how “no one saw
it coming.”
Many attorneys with valued negotiation and trial skills recognize
that small law firms can provide more effective representation
by treating a client’s cause as their own from start
to finish. Small law firms are sought out by individual and
business clients wanting focalized advice and representation;
many small firms are now turning away clients rather than expand
their legal staffs, and Olsen & Brown L.L.C. has resisted
such expansion for reasons of quality and because the partners
enjoy working face-to-face with people, their families and
businesses, helping them resolve their difficulties, fulfill
their quests, reach their goals, while working successfully
for the future and seeking to prevail when there is adversity.
It is no accident that small law firms in America win comprehensive
defense verdicts or multi-million dollar judgments, and opposing
parties are left to quiz their own attorneys as to how it could
have happened. Olsen & Brown L.L.C. has successfully defended
many clients and also won jury verdicts of more than $2 million
in Denver and New York (including one verdict of more than
$10 million), by seeking to know the facts better than opposing
attorneys, and also by tireless work, concentration and multi-faceted “brainstorming,” and
by effective presentation of facts and law, not to mention
persuasive nuances, subtleties, and practicalities, to judges
and juries.
Olsen & Brown L.L.C. provides meaningful advice to individual
and business clients, even if it is not what the client has
a predisposition to hear. Advice is not “sugar-coated,” or
designed to prolong a case or increase billable hours, and
it is important that advantages and defects in strategy be
identified early and that enthusiasm be tempered with realistic
assessment of, and approaches to, multi-lateral obstacles,
including the reality of specific courts and judges, required
evidentiary proofs, opposing allegations and factual assertions,
and the practicality of the court or arbitration process.
Olsen & Brown L.L.C. has been described as conservative
in its advice and counsel but prefers to use the terms practical,
perceptive and personalized. The firm reviews hundreds of fact
patterns and talks with hundreds of potential clients, accepting
only a fraction. The caseload is purposely limited. The goal
is to have clients who look back with pride to have stood with
Olsen & Brown L.L.C. in a moment of personal or professional
need. Most of the firm’s clients are repeat clients or
those referred by others who have been served in the past by
Olsen & Brown L.L.C.
Many of the clients of Olsen & Brown L.L.C. have sought
confidential advice, such that said advice, or even the role
of the law firm, is never disclosed to anyone (in perpetuity).
Olsen & Brown L.L.C. has offices in Colorado (8362 Greenwood
Drive, Niwot, CO 80503) and New York (150 Broadway, Suite 1115,
New York, N.Y. 10038). Telephone: (303) 652-1133 and (212)
349-7800.
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