Opening Fall 2026
Thoughtfully made goods for those who practice law.
Leather goods, writing instruments and cigar essentials — chosen the way a lawyer would choose them: on the merits, and for a career rather than a season.
Twenty-six years in practice: large firms in Washington and Miami, a prosecutor's office in Hawaii, a solo practice in Florida. Everything here was chosen from inside that.
James Kaywell, Founder · Member of the District of Columbia Bar
House pieces carry the warranty. Curated pieces carry the Assurance for thirty days from delivery, then the maker's own — Korchmar five years, Time Resistance and Xikar lifetime.
The collection
What we made, what we chose, and what simply works.
House Collection
Designed and branded by us, and named for the terms of art of the practice — The Brief, The Docket, The Silk. Full-grain, vegetable-tanned leather, made in Kolkata. Backed by a Five-Year Limited Warranty.
Curated Collection
Chosen for the maker's own standing, never to fill a price ladder. For the case, Korchmar — four generations into factories of its own — and Time Resistance, in Italian Vachetta. For the pen, Pelikan and Esterbrook. For the journal, Gallery Leather of Maine. For the cigar, Daniel Marshall, Xikar, and S.T. Dupont, which opened as a Paris leatherwork shop in 1872 and made no lighter until 1941. Each keeps its maker's identity rather than ours.
Essentials
Stocked because the ritual needs one and this one works. Working humidors, ashtrays and hygrometers, sold on function and value rather than on a maker's name. Saying so plainly is what lets “curated” mean something one shelf over.
In the shop
One from each bench.
Bags & Briefcases
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Churchill Classic BriefcaseSale price$715.00 Writing Instruments
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Pelikan Souverän M1000 Fountain PenSale price$876.00 Cigar Essentials
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Daniel Marshall Ambiente 65 Humidor — Black MatteSale price$595.00
The Field Guide
Choosing the Right Piece, Explained
Every good purchase turns on one question, and each Field Guide briefs exactly one — the case for both sides, sources cited, and a verdict you can take into the room. One decision per guide. Both answers argued honestly.
Two briefcases, one three-hundred-year-old reason lawyers still care what they carry — the real history of the barrister's red bag and the word "briefcase," and a field guide to choosing between En...
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The Catalog Case: Hand Carry or Wheeled?
A catalog case exists for one reason — the matter outgrew what a briefcase could hold. The only real choice left is mechanical: carry it, or roll it. A field guide to Korchmar's Workhorse and Litig...
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The bag that carries the working day, versus the one that carries everything else. Two Time Resistance pieces in full-grain Vachetta — and which belongs to which day.
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The smallest decision you will make before a deposition, and the one your client actually notices. A field guide to choosing between a padfolio and a portfolio.
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The object you hand to someone, versus the one you keep to yourself. A field guide to choosing between a business card case and a card wallet.
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The stroke width you choose once, and then write with for the next twenty years. A field guide to choosing a fountain pen nib.
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Fountain, Rollerball, or Ballpoint?
Three formats, one hand, and only one of them belongs on a carbon-backed form. A field guide to choosing between a fountain pen, a rollerball and a ballpoint.
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The profession's oldest closing ceremony — and the four instruments it actually requires. A field guide to the cigar ritual for the practicing lawyer.
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A new humidor must be seasoned before use. Wipe the Spanish cedar with distilled water, charge the humidifier, and close the humidor over a dish of distilled water for 48 to 72 hours — then confirm...
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Crafted to our standard, or curated to meet it.
Some of what we offer we designed ourselves. The rest we carry because the maker's name is the argument. Either way the specification is stated plainly, and the maker is named — you should not have to take a leather claim on faith.
- Leather
- Full-grain and vegetable-tanned. Italian Vachetta on the Time Resistance line, hand-dyed by the maker.
- Makers
- Korchmar, four generations into building in factories of its own. Time Resistance, whose Vachetta line anchors the women's range.
- House pieces
- Designed here, named for the terms of the practice, and backed by a five-year warranty.
- The standard
- Nothing offered that we would not carry ourselves. Where we did not make it, we say who did.
US Patent 974,371 — Pocket Case, 1910
Closing argument
Discretion over flash.
The piece that reaches hardest to be noticed is the one that gives itself away. Everything here is built on the opposite premise.
- Quality that outlasts trends.
- The mark worth having is the one another lawyer recognizes, and no one else does.
- Nothing offered that we wouldn't carry ourselves.