A litigation boutique · Est. 2004

Quiet counsel for
loud disputes.

Hale & Marrow is a firm of eleven lawyers that tries the cases larger firms settle and settles the cases they try. We take on a deliberately small number of matters — and prepare each one as if it will be decided by a jury.

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Recognition The Barrister's Ledger Meridian Law Review Harborlight Business Journal The Advocate's Quarterly "Litigation Boutique of the Year" — Ledger Awards, 2025

The Firm

Small by design.
Serious by habit.

Most litigation departments are built to bill hours. Ours is built to end disputes. We decline far more engagements than we accept, and the ones we take receive partners — not leverage pyramids — in every deposition, every hearing, and every late-night draft.

The result is a particular reputation. Opposing counsel know that when Hale & Marrow appears, the matter has been priced for trial, staffed for trial, and prepared for trial. That knowledge, more than any brief we file, is usually what produces the quiet resolution our clients prefer.

We measure success the way clients do: outcomes, discretion, and the absence of surprises.

Practice Areas

Six disciplines.
One standard of preparation.

No. 01

Commercial Litigation

Contract, partnership, and business-tort disputes where the company itself is on the line.

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Securities & Shareholder Disputes

Defense of officers and boards; prosecution of opt-out and minority-holder claims.

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Trade Secrets & IP Litigation

Emergency injunctions and trials over the ideas a business cannot afford to lose.

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Investigations & White Collar

Internal investigations and regulatory defense, conducted before matters become public.

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Professional Liability

Defense of lawyers, accountants, and fiduciaries whose reputations are the claim.

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Appeals & Critical Motions

Dispositive motions and appellate advocacy, briefed by the partners who argue them.

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By the numbers

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Recovered or preserved for clients
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Of matters resolved before trial
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Trials to verdict or final award
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Years of practice, one office

Figures are illustrative and entirely fictional — this is a demonstration website.

The Attorneys

Eleven lawyers.
No understudies.

EH

Eleanor V. Hale

Founding Partner

Trial counsel in commercial and securities matters for twenty-six years. Known for cross-examinations that end settlement discussions — in her clients' favor.

JM

Julian A. Marrow

Founding Partner

Leads the firm's investigations and appellate work. Former federal appellate clerk; author of the firm's habit of winning on paper first.

"Clients don't hire a firm. They hire the people who will stand up in court."

Meet All Eleven

"We prepare every case as if it will be tried — which is precisely why most of them never are."

Eleanor V. Hale, Founding Partner

Begin with a conversation.

Consultations are confidential, unhurried, and candid — including about whether you need us at all.

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