Our Values
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Work should bring you joy.
To our clients
We want to help clients solve their workplace problems so they can focus on building their businesses, careers and impacts. We want to do the law stuff, so that our clients can focus on what brings them joy.
To ourselves
As a team, we value joy in our own workplace and personal lives as well. Every team member should prioritize their own goals and happiness and add value to the business in a way that reflects that. We want to create a workplace where individuals can find their joyful balance between life and professional success.
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PortaLaw’s business is based on trust – between us and our clients, and amongst our team. Underlying this is our commitment to honesty.
To our clients
For clients, this means providing advice that they need to hear. Our clients can trust in the quality and thoughtfulness of our advice, and that we respect the ethical and practical standards of the legal profession.
A cornerstone of commitment to honesty is our transparent pricing model. It fosters predictability in our legal fees, and ensures that clients know what they’re getting, know what we’re doing, and own their decision-making process.
To ourselves
PortaLaw succeeds when each team member is honest with themselves and each other about their needs, strengths, weaknesses, gaps, goals and fears.
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To our clients and to ourselves
We believe that the delivery of legal services is overdue for innovation and we intend to be leaders in our changing industry. This means that we leverage technology wherever it improves the delivery of our mission, and that we stay on top of legal tech.
But being innovative isn’t just about technology. It’s about systems, processes, workflows, communication styles and so much more.
We work as a team at PortaLaw – which can be very different from the traditional legal firm model centered around individual partners. We outsource tasks that can be better (and more cost effectively) completed by other suppliers and service providers. We project-manage and scope out our work like our clients do – in other words, more like a business and less like a traditional law firm.
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To our clients and to ourselves
Employment and human rights law is more about people and experiences than contracts and transactions. It is as human-centered as the practice of law gets. We are committed to approach our clients and practice this way, with compassion and empathy. Our clients see our humanity in how we communicate, how we advise and how we relate.