About Chambers & Whitlock
A small firm by design, founded in 1987 on a proposition that has not required revision: professionals deserve counsel who prepare as carefully as they do.
Chambers & Whitlock serves a deliberately narrow clientele — attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, and real-estate professionals — on the matters their own clients bring to them. We do not advertise breadth. Six practice areas, each led by a named partner, each staffed by people who have done the work long enough to know where it goes wrong.
How we work
Every engagement begins with a written scope and ends with a written record. Matters are not handed down to the least-expensive desk; the partner you retain is the partner who appears. Our fees are quoted before work begins, and our invoices read like the file — dated, itemized, and defensible.
We publish our working notes in the Journal because we believe the profession is better served by candor than by mystique. If an entry answers your question, no engagement is necessary. If it raises one, the consultation is thirty minutes and carries no obligation.
The record
Founded 1987, Boston — Court Square, where we remain. Admissions: Massachusetts, New York, England & Wales (registered). Seven partners, each named on the engagements they lead. Clientele: professional practices and their principals, by referral.
If your question concerns a matter already in dispute, write to us before you write to anyone else. The first letter in a file is the one every later reader judges.