ABOUT SEAN KUHLMEYER & EMERALD CITY LEGAL SERVICES

One reason I became a lawyer was because I saw the impact even a minor legal issue can have on working people. Because lawyers are so expensive, most people have their issues go unresolved. Their access to the legal system is effectively denied.

Our system is becoming a system where the rich buy access to justice, the poor can get pro-bono legal help, but everyone in the middle—regular working people and small business owners, just get left out, and that’s not right.

I run a small general practice law firm. Often some legal research and several phone calls and letters will solve many of my client’s legal issues. Of course, when that doesn’t work, we can file a lawsuit and force the other party to take the situation seriously.

Since I have lower overhead costs than the lawyers that fill the downtown offices, I charge my clients less. I limit myself to helping working people and small-business owners. Current hourly rates at a downtown firm run from about $300-$700/an hour! I charge far lessthan they do.

My firm is not a "specialty" firm. Our goal is to recreate a "small-town" type general practice law office in the big city. I offer a wide variety of legal services to my clients, and strive to be the first place clients turn for legal advice.

I’m not like other lawyers. I’m accessible and responsive.

I communicate with you often and return your calls quickly. I don’t have an expensive downtown office that forces me to charge high rates, because I believe that my client’s care about the quality of the legal work, not my address.

I offer high quality legal services at prices aimed at working people and small business owners. I don’t shy away from the tough cases, or the ones that other lawyers think can’t be solved.

I’m not like other lawyers; I’m just like you, a regular working person and a small business owner.