Every result we can report publicly
Figures below are gross recovery or savings before fees and costs, reported with client permission.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter turns on its own facts, jurisdiction and evidence. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a promise of any particular result.
Peer and bench ratings
AV Preeminent
Highest peer rating for legal ability and ethics, held continuously since 2004.
Best Lawyers listing
Six attorneys named across civil litigation, employment and family law.
Trial Lawyer of the Year
Springfield County Bar Association, awarded to Ellis Halvern in 2022.
Pro bono honour roll
Over 900 hours contributed annually to the county legal aid clinic.
Clients on what it was like
Names shortened at the client’s request; matters described with permission.
Two firms told me the case was too old. Halvern read the file over a weekend, found the tolling argument, and we recovered every dollar eleven months later.
They talked me out of suing my former partner and negotiated a buyout instead. It cost me a fifth of what litigation would have, and I still have the business.
Custody work is miserable and they never once made it worse. Priya answered on a Sunday when the exchange went wrong, and had an order modified inside a fortnight.
I got a written estimate on day one and the final invoice was under it. After twenty years of dealing with law firms, that alone was remarkable.
They filed inside a week of the first call, and the other side settled before the first hearing. I never once had to chase anybody for an update.
The written file review was worth the fee on its own. It told me plainly what the case was worth and what it would cost to find out.
Courts and counties we appear in
Five counties within a two-hour drive, plus federal matters statewide. Hover a courthouse to place it.
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