McGeary Cukor

McGeary Cukor LLC was formed to promote one professional goal: to work on matters that are as important to us as they are to our clients. This means developing client relations where our interests and the client's interests are completely aligned. Experience teaches that clients hire lawyers rather than law firms. When a client engages our firm to... represent them, the lawyer hired handles the matter. Our law firm model does not rely upon profiting from other lawyers billing time to a matter. Clients compensate us for the work we do for them, not for managing other attorneys working on their matters. We consider ourselves aggressive litigators. Nevertheless, during the course of any litigation we work very hard to develop and maintain a professional and cooperative relationship with our adversaries. There are many good professional and karmic reasons to do so. Ultimately, tribunals expect the litigants to cooperate and minimize the issues presented for resolution. Just as importantly, however, cooperation minimizes costs, and keeps the tribunal focused on our winning issues. Our billing practice is consistent with our professional goal. To achieve unity of interest with our clients, our engagements reflect a wide range of billing structures. Where the services are predictable, we provide flat rate billing depending upon the project, or, if there is some uncertainty, we may provide a "not to exceed" limit on our bill. In other circumstances, we use partial contingencies or success fees. In matters where the client prefers hourly billing, we charge a very reasonable rate, which represents a substantial value to our clients compared with rates at our prior firms. In all cases, our billing is completely transparent. Where we use outside vendors, such as for copying or preparing exhibits or presentations, we do so only with our client's approval and without any markup. We are generally compensated only for our legal services.Read More