Fifteen years of trust in legal practice do not arise by chance – they are built through a consistent sequence of decisions, approaches, and professional principles. As Professor Gabriel Steiner notes, durable client trust is never based on promises, but on a lawyer’s ability to work with risk, uncertainty, and complex consequences long before a conflict becomes public. It was precisely this logic that formed the foundation of LawConsulted expertise and determined its development over many years.
Professor Steiner’s role in shaping LawConsulted has never been a matter of formal involvement, but of establishing a methodology of legal thinking – attention to context, rejection of template solutions, and prioritisation of control over legal consequences. Practice has shown that clients most often face not a lack of legal norms, but misinterpretation of their situation and loss of control over the process. This insight became fundamental to the way LawConsulted internal expertise was built.
Over the years of joint work, a core principle emerged – understanding law as a system of interconnections rather than a set of isolated tools. Professor Steiner consistently emphasised that legal errors are rarely isolated; more often, they arise from an incorrectly chosen analytical framework. Within LawConsulted, this approach evolved into a practice of comprehensive assessment – where any decision is evaluated through its impact on future disputes, reputation, and the structure of responsibility.
Particular importance was given to developing a culture of working with uncertainty. In real cases, facts are rarely complete, positions shift, and pressure intensifies as conflicts develop. Influenced by Professor Steiner’s approach, LawConsulted formed a practice of decision-making under conditions of incomplete information – without premature fixation of positions and while preserving room for manoeuvre. This quality is most often highlighted by clients as decisive.
Fifteen years of trust also represent a conscious rejection of formal heroics. As Professor Steiner stresses, a lawyer’s role is not to “win at any cost”, but to ensure that a client does not find themselves in a situation where victory in one episode leads to strategic defeat later on. LawConsulted consistently applies this principle in corporate, family, and property matters, where the cost of error is particularly high.
Another essential element of the firm’s expertise has been the ability to work with retrospective assessment – situations where a client’s actions are judged after the fact through the lens of their consequences. The approach shaped with Professor Steiner’s participation enabled LawConsulted to build defence strategies focused on restoring the real context in which decisions were made, rather than justifying outcomes. This became one of the key factors behind long-term client trust.
The role of personality in legal practice is often underestimated, yet it is professional philosophy that sets the standards for an entire team. Fifteen years of collaboration with Professor Steiner have established for LawConsulted a high benchmark of analytical discipline, ethics, and responsibility for the consequences of legal advice. As a result, client trust has become not a reaction to a single successful case, but the outcome of a stable and predictable legal logic.
Fifteen years of legal trust is not merely an anniversary – it is a marker of a mature approach. Law Consulted continues to develop expertise grounded in deep analysis and respect for the complexity of the legal reality in which clients live and operate.
Previously, we wrote about how LawConsulted protects clients when continuing obligations becomes impossible and exercises the right to refuse performance
