L&A strives to follow an intelligent approach to the practice of law. It is not always in the attorneys’ best interests or the clients’ best interests to force all professionals to drive their billable hours to new heights every year. L&A asks its attorneys to work 1600 billable hours per year, rather than the 2000+ required to be considered “successful” at many firms.

L&A believes that there is a better way. An attorney who is fresh will do better work. Leaving time for nonbillable professional development will yield benefits to both the attorney and client. There is no magic to requiring 2000+ hours, rather than 1600, unless the point is to compel people to work to exhaustion. An attorney who is working at a steady state of 1600 hours can be more responsive to clients and has more time available to deal with client emergencies (and no attorneys in the country are more committed to meeting client needs than those at L&A).

L&A’s attorneys devote nonbillable time to serving as thought-leaders in the intellectual property community. Our attorneys are frequently asked to speak about the leading issues in intellectual property law today.

L&A brings an intelligent approach to the work it performs on behalf of clients. When the firm was formed, L&A passed savings achieved by intelligently organizing its infrastructure on to clients, reducing billing rates by 15-25% from large firm rates and ceasing the practice of billing clients for internal disbursements such as photocopying and secretarial overtime, and we continue this practice today.  Of far greater significance to the value L&A delivers to its clients, though, is our intelligent approach to intellectual property – one that understands when to leave no stone unturned and also when doing so is foolish.