For Firms
Gifts a firm gives.
A firm gives things at four moments: when someone is admitted, when someone is elected, when a deal closes, and when a long career ends. The dinner gets arranged and the toast gets given, and then somebody has ninety minutes to find an object that will sit on a desk for the next twenty years.
The four moments
We are not a promotional goods company.
There is no volume discount table, no logo on a tote bag, and nothing sold by the gross. One price per piece — the same price a lawyer pays buying it for herself. What a firm gets here is not a procurement channel. It is a shop that knows exactly what these four mornings are, and has chosen the objects accordingly.
- The Vote
- Partner election, January and July. One piece per new partner — and then the same piece the following year, and the year after, until the associates know what it looks like and what it means to be handed one. A new partner remembers what the firm put in their hands that week. Most firms put a dinner there.
- The Oath
- Admission and swearing-in, November and December. The one moment in a career when the profession formally says you are one of us now, and it almost always passes without an object to show for it. A card case or a padfolio, one per admit. Add a pen and it becomes the set they carry into a first deposition.
- The Signing
- A closing, year-round. One pen per signatory, and it goes home with whoever signs with it — which is the entire point. A lucite block costs more and ends up a paperweight nobody thanks you for.
- The Emeritus
- Retirement and the long career. An order of one, and the order we most want. Forty years of practice, and the firm has a single chance to hand over something that says the work counted.
US Patent 293,545 — Fountain Pen, 1884
What a firm sends
One piece, chosen properly.
For the new admit
Small leather goods
The Counsel — Leather Card CaseSale price$115.00 For the incoming class
Portfolios & padfolios
The Brief — Leather PadfolioSale price$245.00 For the closing table
Writing instruments
Esterbrook Estie Ballpoint — Ebony & GoldSale price$125.00 For the long career
Bags & briefcases
The Silk — Structured Leather BriefcaseSale price$1,295.00
Before you order
What we can do, stated plainly.
The most useful thing we can tell a firm is what we are not. We do not hold dates, we do not invoice on terms, and we do not put your mark on the leather. What we do is know these four mornings, and stock accordingly.
- Instead of a monogram
- We do not monogram, emboss, or engrave. A new partner wants the object, not the firm's mark on the object, and in ten years they will still be carrying it into rooms where your logo would be the wrong thing for anyone to be reading. Whatever the firm wants to say is better said by the firm, in its own words, on its own paper.
- How an order works
- Everything here is bought the way anything else in the shop is bought — one cart, one checkout, the same price a lawyer pays. There is no quote to wait for and no minimum to clear.
- Write to us first
- If you are buying for several people, tell us before you order rather than after. It is easier to work something out while an order is still an idea than once it is a shipment, and we would rather hear what you need than guess at it.
Closing argument
Consider us retained.
Buying for one person rather than a class? The gift pages are written for exactly that, and for the person who has no idea what a padfolio is for.
- One price per piece. It does not come down because you are buying twelve.
- The mark worth having is the one another lawyer recognizes, and no one else does.
- Nothing offered that we wouldn't carry ourselves.