About us

S. R. Labby is a boutique law firm dedicated to serving businesses, political campaigns, and individual private clients. The Firm represents a new model for a law firm, one that delivers sophisticated service to our clients by challenging old legal models, honing new ones, and bringing insights and analysis from other professions into our legal practice.

The Firm’s model is built from simple principles: first, representing clients is a privilege that demands dedication and hard work. However, the exacting standards of elite corporate legal practice do not always seem to apply to certain areas of legal service, ranging from risk and crisis management to election law and family practice.

Second, analytical tools common in sectors from finance to technology are largely absent from even elite legal practices. Third, the legal market itself discourages legal service innovation that would address these problems; instead, there is an increasing sub-specialization of legal practice resulting in a loss of broad strategic analysis and counsel, and at increased financial cost to clients.

Together with these principles, S. R. Labby brings broad analytical and practical skills—and plain intellectual firepower—of carefully chosen in-house attorneys, staff and outside firms and consultants, together to provide best-in-class service to our clients.

We combine unique quantitative and qualitative analysis with a deep understanding of traditional litigation and transactional legal work, including sophisticated motion practice and appeals. Beyond the boundaries of technical legal practice, we anticipate problems before they arise, which often enables us to prevent crises altogether. Ideally, this leads us to quick and satisfactory resolution. Our clients are rarely surprised by the strategies or tactics we encounter, and are instead exceptionally prepared. We remain scrupulously attuned to the motivations and approaches of our adversaries, foreseeing strategies and tactics so that we're able to advise, protect, and fortify our clients even in very high-stakes and high-conflict matters.

Because of our approach, we are better able to advise clients about the risks and likely outcomes of their matters, and we understand these matters exist in a matrix that includes businesses, personal issues, and reputations. Whether clients are in politics, entertainment, finance, professional sports, media, medicine, law, or venture capital, we understand their legal challenges and how they fit into and affect the rest of their personal and professional lives. For our corporate clients, we understand the complexities of running businesses on a global scale and the need to predict and control risk as well as the need to prepare in advance for times of crisis, which are increasingly inevitable.