Schmid & Schmid

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Anticipation: forsee legal scenarios and dilemmas, avoid mistakes and culpability, accomplish responsible estate planning for family wealth, health, wellbeing, business and property succession.

Negotiation: amicably establishing, manging, and ending legal, family, and business relationships, making contracts and settlement agreements, building common ground. Litigation: a court case should never be your only strategy, but if you are sued in a private civil case or prosecuted for a crime or regulatory non-compliance, or if suing is your best alternative to a negotiated settlement, then we work with litigators in every specialized field of law.

Many people think lawyers are unapproachable and aloof, that they are unaffordable, and that they stir up trouble.