Built in courtrooms, not boardrooms

Eleanor Harlow and Samuel Pierce met as public defenders — two lawyers who learned early that the system only works for people who have someone willing to fight for them. In 2001 they opened a two-room office with a single promise on the door: no client fights alone.

Twenty-five years later, that promise hasn't changed. The firm has grown to twenty attorneys and recovered over $480 million, but every case still starts the same way it did on day one — with a lawyer sitting across from you, listening.