Who We Serve

Large Foundational Businesses

“Leveraging Our Size, Efficiency, Nimbleness and Creativity to Deliver Best Value”

At BurgherGray, we are cognizant of your need to control legal services cost as you try to manage and work within the constraints of a legal budget. We are also aware of the tension that exists between those objectives with the traditional hourly billing model. We therefore focus on delivering best value by employing a lean-staffing philosophy, offering alternative fees arrangements, maximizing efficiency, and maintaining a low overhead cost structure that allows us to offer fees that are significantly less than those charged by large corporate law firms for comparable matters. Our goal for each client is to build a long-term partnership in which we are viewed by that client as a trusted advisor and a long-term partner. In this regard, we go above and beyond the delivery of great service that you would naturally expect and deserve, and so a partnership with BurgherGray is often characterized by added value that include proactive advice and counsel, cutting edge industry insights, CLEs, innovative approach to problem-solving, alternative fee structures, long-term commitment to client and to understanding clients’ business, strategic objectives, history and values, free legal research and a conscious effort to connect you to valued resources. In working with BurgherGray, you will consistently have access to partners and senior lawyers who communicate you regularly, and who are otherwise fully engaged in each matter

At BurgherGray, we also share your deep commitment to diversity as a business proposition and, as a certified minority-owned law firm by the State and City of New York and the National Minority Supplier Development Council, New York and New Jersey Council, and is a member of the National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firm, we are well positioned to assist our clients in achieving their supplier and other diversity goals.

Middle Markets Enterprises

“You Should Not Have to Feel Like a Second-Class Citizen to Get Top Quality Legal Representation, Regardless of Size”

At BurgherGray, we treat each client relationship as a valued relationship regardless of client size—the attention and quality of the service you receive is not determined by the amount of fees to be generated from the relationship. We are focused on building a long-term partnership based on trust and shared values. Although we use hourly billing where appropriate, we don’t nickel and dime our clients. We look for ways to align our interests with those of our clients by focusing on win-win approaches that maximize value for our clients. We provide BigLaw sophistication and experience with a small firm touch.

Our senior attorneys have all honed their legal skills in large corporate law firms, at in-house legal departments of large corporations and/or at governmental agencies working on some of the most complex transactions and business litigation matters. We marry the quality and sophistication of legal services you might expect from a large corporate law firm with the cost-efficiency, creativity and responsiveness of a small law firm. When you choose to partner with us, you get the best of both worlds.

At BurgherGray, we are not overly beholden to tradition and we pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box. We are facilitators, not obstructionists. We don’t provide legal advice in a vacuum. Rather than simply saying “no” to your proposed course of action or solution, we partner with you to find a suitable alternative means of getting to a “yes.” We also understand that, in order to stay ahead of the competition and offer the best products and services, you have to constantly innovate and anticipate the changing needs, desires/tastes and challenges of your customers. Our unrelenting commitment to deliver best value for you is one of the most important things that set us apart from our competition.

Start-Ups / Emerging Growth Companies

“As an Emerging Company or Start-up Enterprise, You Face Unique Challenges that Defy One-Size-Fits All Solutions”

As business attorneys, BurgherGray understand the unique challenges of being an emerging or start-up enterprise, including having very limited resources, needing to strongly depend on your lawyer for more than just help to navigate an increasingly complex and intimidating legal and regulatory landscape, and the frequently having to make day-to-day decisions that are a matter of survival. As the lines between legal and business needs are often blurred, it is even more critical that any legal advice be informed by the realities of your particular circumstances. Our business experience and our interdisciplinary team of lawyers make us particularly suited to the challenge.

At BurgherGray, we understand your need as an emerging or small business to partner with lawyers or law firms that are willing to roll up their sleeves and get in the trenches and who are committed to be there to provide the customized guidance small businesses and start-ups need as they grow their business. Given the heightened dependence of emerging and start-up business on their attorneys, we understand the importance that they have reasonable access to their attorneys. We understand how frustrating it can be when you are left for extended periods of time to wonder about the latest status of your case or transaction and not being able to reach your attorney. As such, our staffing model not only promotes cost efficiency but also ensures that you have access to senior lawyers who communicate with you regularly, and who are otherwise fully engaged in each matter.

When you choose to partner with us, you get sophisticated legal services at prices you can afford. To ensure this, we strive to always maximize our value to you by fostering a relationship that transcends the basic fee-for-service relationship. We do this especially for smaller clients like you, with whom we often have to be particularly creative in structuring fee arrangements that work. We believe in, and are committed to your long-term success and so we invest the time and energy to learn and understand your business model and growth plan, leveraging our industry and business experience to your benefit.