NoGranite is quite simply the innovative way that small- to mid-size companies find the experienced business lawyers they need at a reasonable price and where experienced business lawyers can concentrate on doing the lawyering they do best. All at the click of a button.
We are business lawyers with backgrounds in “Big Law” who bonded over our shared frustration with everything wrong with that world and our search for a more ethical and modern model for providing businesses with great legal counsel.
After attending an "elite" law school and clerking on the federal court of appeals, David started his career at one of the biggest of the Big Law Firms in the US. Over the years, David observed the pressures of increasing billable hours. He would find himself sleeping on his office floor and supervising mega-teams of lawyers designed to outgun the opposition. David also saw small- and medium-sized companies simply priced out of the market, left without top legal counsel because the large teams of high-priced lawyers and the pressure to increase billing rates were too much for smaller and mid-size businesses to bear. After working in the field of high tech and business law among others, David decided it was time to change the way the game was played, to offer an innovative solution that would change the way lawyers did their work and the way smaller companies were able to harness that work.
Pinny Becher, a native of New Jersey, came out of one of the largest Big Firms in the high-tech nation -- Israel. Over time, he watched smaller and mid-sized companies act against their own interests, intimidated by aggressive Big Firm lawyering. Meanwhile the Big Firm lawyers themselves were pressured to meet quotas of billable hours regardless of whether it brought value to their clients or not. Pinny wanted to create something that leveled the playing field for smaller companies and that also allowed lawyers to maintain their dignity and proper work-life balance while also having the professional satisfaction of serving their clients well.
