WHY RetaIn me?...
A good question, which deserves a thoughtful answer.
I am admittedly a bit of a dinosaur. Most lawyers today tend to specialize is some area of law, and there are certainly advantages to that kind of focus. However, I think that the advantage is to those lawyers, not necessarily to their clients. The law, and in particular, legal problems are generally complex, messy and unique. They are not usually round peg/round hole kinds of problems, but often require both a comprehensive and nuanced approach. There may be relationship between parties, or issue of publicity or exposure that people don't want publicized. (We don't, for example, plaster our clients’ victories on advertisements, because we respect their privacy and believe that their issues, and the results, belong to them.)
All this is a way of saying that because we deal in many areas, we understand better than most the risks and rewards of our clients’ decisions, and it helps us not only give them better advise, but illuminates creative ways we can help them achieve their goals.
And perhaps most importantly, because we are experienced trial lawyers, we have the advantage of knowing that if things get messy and intractable, we are more than comfortable protecting our clients in whatever forum necessary.
Some might also question whether they might be better off with a big law firm. The fact is that I have never been in a courtroom where more than one lawyer is speaking at a time. Having a bunch of people sitting and taking notes is frankly more of a way to divide blame than it is a way to win cases. If you don't have one attorney that understands all aspects of your case and has the experience and flexibility to handle your matter, you are in my opinion in trouble.