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We are highly regarded for our work representing emerging and leading companies on business and transactional matters. Whether in a boardroom or a courtroom, we distinguish ourselves by creatively and effectively getting deals done. Our bottom-line, results-oriented, deal-driven success draws substantially from our lawyers’ entrepreneurial orientation; a quality we share with our most successful clients. We are most essentially a business law firm, and we employ a keen business perspective to identify and manage risks and help formulate and advance strategies.
Berger Singerman is home to excellent lawyers – deeply knowledgeable about the law; savvy about business; strategic about risk and reward; and responsive and responsible. We are recognized by clients and counter-parties as business-focused professionals who get things done efficiently.
Excellent legal counsel is not a commodity and we are not commodity service providers. Excellent legal counsel adds value. That’s what Berger Singerman does - we add value. Our lawyers contribute more than sophisticated knowledge of the law and highly competent technical skills. We help create, maintain and leverage our clients’ competitive advantages and resources – brand, human, financial and intellectual. We understand finance, markets, business and competitive pressures. We provide effective counsel in all contexts – with management and employees, investment and financing sources, contract counter-parties, customers, vendors and regulators. And when our clients need assistance in resolving disputes, we bring outstanding litigation skills and great familiarity with state and federal courts in Florida, but we do not lose sight of our clients’ business objectives.
These attributes are core components of Berger Singerman’s brand, reflected in our mission statement: “We deliver creative and effective business solutions and counsel”. Our relationships with business owners and managers tend to be deeply rooted and collaborative, because we share their entrepreneurial orientation. Our institutional clients appreciate this quality in us too. Our business clients also appreciate that we guard their resources as well as they do. For example, we staff matters with careful economy, rather than “throwing bodies” at matters. Our clients also note and appreciate that our senior lawyers remain fully engaged on client service matters. They do not disappear after new matter intake. They maintain active and direct client contact and are involved and accessible.
Our distinction is not a function of our size or of our purporting to be yet-another generic “full-service” law firm. We don’t aspire to be among the largest firms in this or that market, or in the country, or the world. We prefer to be among the very best Florida law firms across the breadth of our practice - in business, finance and tax, real estate, wealth preservation, capital formation and deployment, business reorganization, dispute resolution, and governmental regulation and administrative law. Many of our colleagues left successful careers at large national and international firms to join Berger Singerman. They did so – and we are especially proud of this - because of how we practice law; with passion, with business sense, with common purpose and shared responsibility; collaborating with each other, with other law firms and professionals, and with our clients. They did so because of our firm is recognized as a stimulating, nurturing and compassionate workplace, where excellence and selflessness are standard and where each member of our team, lawyers and staff, at every level and function, contributes to our success.
The market recognizes our success. Firms many times our size would be proud to boast of a client roster and significant engagement list comparable to ours. The awards and accolades we have earned among business and legal commentators also demonstrate our success. Berger Singerman lawyers are ranked among “The Best Lawyers in America”. South Florida Business Journal honored us with their 2008 Business of the Year Award. We have achieved top-ranking by Chambers USA, and in 2006 we received the “Good to Great Award” based upon the best selling book by Jim Collins from the Tri-County Chambers of Commerce. This is a coveted honor, bestowed ordinarily on operating businesses for demonstrated excellence in their business pursuits. Law firms are not usually thought of in this connection. We are very proud that ours was.
