Our Commitment
As attorneys and trusted advisors, clients and collaboration partners have placed a sacred trust in us with their legal matters, and we must strive to earn and keep that trust each day. Therefore, CLS, in an effort to provide the highest level of services to their clients and collaborators; to establish confidence and respect in the lawyer/client relationship and to engender trust
and affability among all stakeholders in any provision of legal services, conducts themselves according to the following precepts:
• Treat clients and collaborators with respect, honesty and courtesy.
• Handle every legal matters competently and diligently, in accordance with the highest standards of the profession.
• Exercise independent professional judgment on our client’s behalf.
• Charge a reasonable fee with transparency as to how our fee are computed and invoice.
• Reply all communications promptly.
• Keep clients and collaborators informed and updated on their matter as well as the state of the law.
• Respect client decisions on the objectives to be pursued in their matter
• Work collaboratively with other legal services professionals to make our legal system more accessible and responsive.
• Cheerfully assist clients and collaborators find additional trusted advisor or referrals to attorneys with specific expertise with no expectation of financial enrichments or fee splitting with other parties.
• Preserve our client’s confidences learned during our lawyer-client relationship.
• Exhibit the highest degree of ethical conduct in accordance with the Code of Professional Responsibility/ Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
• Remember that jealousy and greed are the two greatest enemies any enterprise may have and the enemy within is more dangerous than the enemy without
