Except as reflects our commitment to rigor and “legal esthetics,”1 we are not a traditional law firm but aim to work mobilis in mobile (that is, as flexibly as the situation demands), including by engaging specialized co-counsel when needed and considering alternative fee agreements when appropriate. Services that do not require the attention or expense of an attorney (e.g., title and authenticity research) or that are better handled independently (e.g., escrow services) can be handled by affiliated—but separate—companies that can be accessed through ARTxSERVICES, subject to separate terms and important disclosures.
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1“Legal esthetics are in first essence functional esthetics . . . the prose is clean . . . so it comes about that right craftsmen of the law discover that [while] talking prose all their lives . . . they have been doing legal poetry . . . art is the essence of their daily work.” K.N. Llewellyn, On the Good, the True, the Beautiful, in Law, 9 U. Chi. L. Rev. 224 (1942) at 229-30. Notwithstanding that and Clarence Darrow’s lament that “inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet,” there is a great deal more law than art in “art law.” We focus on getting the legal job done right, driving the nail home and clinching it so faithfully, as Thoreau adjured, that we “can wake up in the night and think of our work with satisfaction.”