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Partners for Your Business®
Many fine law firms state a wish to "partner" with their clients, but this usually means offering alternative billing arrangements or better communications links. This does not address the most frequent complaint about major law firms, that most work is handled by relatively inexperienced junior lawyers who are, in effect, trained at the expense of the firm's clients.
When Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP promises to be Partners for Your Business®, we mean a great deal more. Most importantly, an experienced partner will handle a client's legal affairs, large and small, with the assistance of well-trained associates and paralegals for appropriate portions of the work. About half of our 104 lawyers are partner/counsel level. Our clients have direct access to the partners responsible for work on their matters. In our office, no client and no matter is too small to receive the attention of an experienced partner delivering the highest quality of legal and business advice.
Our partners are much more than excellent legal practitioners-they also provide clients with valuable business counsel derived from years of relevant experience. The firm's vast contact base allows us to introduce our clients to people who frequently can advance the client's interest; including prospective business partners, customers, sources of financing, investment bankers, consultants and other useful contacts worldwide. Like any good partner, we look for opportunities to add value for our clients beyond the legal work we are retained to deliver.
Where appropriate to a client's circumstances, flexible billing arrangements also constitute part of our partnering commitment. For early stage business clients, including a rapidly growing new media, telecommunications and technology clientele from Silicon Alley and beyond, this may take the form of equity-based fee arrangements creating a direct partnering relationship.
We measure our success by the success of our clients. That's what it means to have the partners of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP as Partners for Your Business®.
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Latest News
Client advisory written by Faith Colish, Mary Joan Hoene, Guy P. Lander, Ethan L. Silver and Andris J. Vizbaras published on February 9, 2012.
Tax partner Howard J. Barnet, Jr. was quoted in Time Magazine’s electronic edition “Time Business” on February 6 regarding low US corporate tax payments.
Client advisory written by Julie A. Weisman and Andrew D. Weissman published February 3, 2012.
Article authored by Judith Wallace published in Spencer's Art Law Journal Winter 2011/2012
Firm client Solar-Tectic LLC has been granted a world-wide exclusive license for a method of manufacturing silicon thin-films on ordinary glass over a large area, thus allowing for the commercialization of single crystal…
Environmental associate Karen E. Meara was elected to the Board of Directors of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), a membership-based non-profit organization founded in 1983 and based in…
Article written by Pamela Ehrenkranz, Michael I. Frankel and Lindsay N. O’Donnell published in the November/December issue of the NYSBA Journal.
Our retired partner Stanley F. Reed Jr. died on Tuesday, January 10 at age 97. Mr. Reed joined CL&M in 1946 after serving in the United States Navy for four years.
Trusts and estates counsel Ronald D. Spencer will lecture on estate planning issues facing art collectors and provide advice on how collectors can preserve and protect the value of their art assets for later generations.
Trusts and estates partner Michael I. Frankel will lecture on the recently revised Estates Powers and Trusts Law Section 10-6.6, which permits trustees to pay trust assets from an existing trust to a new trust.
On January 19, 2011, environmental and land use attorney Ethan I. Strell participated in a panel discussion at the New York City Law Department entitled “Environmental Law In China: American Lawyers’…
Tax partner Howard J. Barnet, Jr. was quoted in the January 12, 2012 Hedge Fund Law Report article “Proposed New York City Audit Position Can Increase the Amount of Unincorporated Business Tax Paid by New York Hedge…
Litigation partner Jeffrey S. Boxer was featured in the December 29, 2011 Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry article “Competitive Business Practices: Employee Poaching in the Medical Device Industry.”
Bankruptcy counsel Aaron R. Cahn was quoted in the December 29, 2011 Thomson Reuters News & Insight article “Lehman Bankruptcy Judge Denies Morgan Stanley Customer Status.”
Of the largest twenty municipal issues in December 2011, CL&M represented The Bank of New York Mellon, municipal bond trustee on six of those transactions, totaling $5,266,500,000.
Kelly M. Frisch, Bryan J. Hall, Alison Powers Herman, Jayun Koo and Andriy R. Pazuniak, with the assistance of Stephen F. Lappert, Howard J. Barnet, Jr. and Dan Pittman, assisted in the closing of ...
Our retired partner George Minkin died on Sunday, December 25 at age 91. Mr. Minkin joined CL&M in 1986 from Guggenheim & Untermeyer.
GE SeaCo, the world’s fifth largest marine container leasing company, was acquired by HNA Group Company Limited of China, a leading diversified services and integrated operations company, and Brava Capital of Hong Kong.
