Solution-Minded
“Solution-Minded Advocacy” sums up our approach. We counsel the client to determine its goal, formulate alternatives for reaching the goal and pursue one or more of these alternatives to achieve the goal. We continually ask ourselves: “Are we moving this matter closer to the client’s goal?” “Does what we do make sense when the client’s cost is weighed against its anticipated benefit?”
Mutually Prosperous
McGovern Legal Services, LLC, as a business, must be profitable, permitting survival, growth and prosperity. We continually ask ourselves: “Is what we do benefiting the client and the firm?” As many of the dot-com companies learned too late, neither the length of a firm’s client list nor how hard its employees work are necessarily accurate indicators of a firm’s health. Clients must be chosen and managed carefully and employees must work efficiently and profitably. A weak business cannot function for long as a strong client advocate.
People-Focused
Firms are organizations of people. Without the people, there is no firm. Its members must respect each other, communicate with each other and carry out the firm’s and its clients’ business in an ethical, professional and collegial manner. Pleasant working relationships are important in any business but they are especially important in the legal field where antagonistic attitudes and actions are too often the norm.