Harrow & Sloane LLP · New York
Counselors at Law — Litigation · Appeals · Investigations Hanover Square · Est. MCMXCIV

Counsel for consequential moments.

Eleven lawyers. One office. No leverage model, no press strategy, no junior associate learning on your file. Harrow & Sloane takes fewer matters than it is offered and prepares each one as if it will be tried — because the other side can tell.

HARROW & SLOANE · MCMXCIV ·  &
11Lawyers, by design
319Matters closed
31Appellate arguments
0Press releases
§ 01 — The Record

Three decades,
kept in order.

A firm is its file room. These are the entries we would show a client who asked what we have actually done — dated, in sequence, without varnish.

1994

The founding

Evelyn Harrow and Marcus Sloane resign partnerships at a nine-hundred-lawyer firm and open two rooms on Hanover Square. Their first client follows them the same afternoon, file under one arm.

Two rooms · One typewriter
1999

Calloway Marine arbitration

A $64 million charter-party dispute, resolved in nine months and in the client's favor, without a single line of press. The award still circulates in maritime seminars; the client's name does not.

Resolved · Sealed
2006

In re Ashwood Holdings

Harrow argues the appeal after two other firms declined it. The reversal restores a family's controlling stake and has been cited in more than forty subsequent opinions.

Reversed & remanded
2013

The Delacroix estate

Four jurisdictions, 212 works of art, three generations with grievances. Settled in eighteen months with every sibling still speaking and not one filing unsealed.

Four jurisdictions · No trial
2018

Parallel inquiries, closed

A founder facing simultaneous federal and state investigations. Both closed without charge in fourteen months. She remains a client — now for the quiet years, which is the point.

Closed without charge
2024

The second generation

Dara Okonkwo is named managing partner; the founders remain of counsel and keep their desks. The firm stays at eleven lawyers. Growth was considered, and declined.

Eleven lawyers · Still
§ 02 — The Practice

Six cards
in the index.

The whole practice fits on six index cards. If your matter does not belong on one of them, we will say so in the first hour and suggest who to call instead.

No. 01 — Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Contract, partnership, and shareholder disputes where the outcome moves the balance sheet. Tried to verdict when it serves the client; settled from strength when it does not.

Filed since 1994118 matters
No. 02 — Fiduciary

Founder & Fiduciary Disputes

Boardroom breaks, forced buyouts, control contests. The cases where everyone once liked each other. We move fast, because these matters rot if left standing.

Filed since 199667 matters
No. 03 — Appeals

Appellate Strategy

Briefs written to be read twice and arguments rehearsed until the hard question is a welcome one. We are often retained for the appeal alone — after the trial went badly elsewhere.

Filed since 199531 arguments
No. 04 — Defense

Investigations & Regulatory Defense

Federal and state inquiries, internal investigations, the knock on the door. Led by a former federal prosecutor who knows precisely what the other side of the table wants.

Filed since 200944 matters
No. 05 — Estates

Art, Estates & Cultural Property

Provenance, succession, restitution, and the quarrels that follow a collection through a family. Equal parts law, archive work, and diplomacy at the dinner table.

Filed since 200152 matters
No. 06 — Retainer

Quiet Counsel

A standing retainer for families and founders: the call you make before the problem has a name. Most of what we prevent never appears in this ledger. That is the measure of it.

StandingBy invitation
§ 03 — The Counsel

The partner you meet is the partner you get.

There is no hand-off here. The lawyer who takes your first call drafts your papers, sits at your table, and stands up in court. Four of the eleven, below.

Evelyn Harrow

Founding Partner · Litigation

Thirty years of trying commercial cases and one unbroken habit: she reads every exhibit herself, the night before, in ink. Opposing counsel call her prepared; her clients call her first.

Clerk to Hon. M. R. Whitcomb, S.D.N.Y. · Fellow, Atlantic College of Trial Counsel

Marcus Sloane

Founding Partner · Appellate, Of Counsel

Thirty-one arguments in the federal courts of appeals, each brief cut until nothing in it can be removed. Since 2024 he takes two appeals a year and edits everyone else's first paragraph.

Editor, The Hanover Square Reports · Lecturer in Advocacy, since 2011

Dara Okonkwo

Managing Partner · Investigations

Eight years a federal prosecutor before crossing the table in 2009. She runs the defense practice the way she ran her grand juries: no surprises, no theater, every fact nailed down twice.

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney · Named managing partner, 2024

Theodore Pang

Partner · Estates & Cultural Property

Trained as an archivist before the law, which shows: he has traced a painting through four wars and settled an estate by finding the letter everyone swore never existed.

M.A., Art History · Trustee, Meridian Conservatory of the Book

I.We take fewer matters than we are offered.

II.Every file is prepared as if it will be tried.

III.We would rather return a fee than keep a doubt.

Written into the partnership agreement in 1994 and read aloud, once a year, at the September partners' dinner. The junior lawyers think this is theater. The senior lawyers know it is the firm.

§ 05 — The Terms

Fees, stated plainly.

A fee you cannot predict is a dispute you have already started. Every engagement begins with these terms in writing, before the first hour is billed.

Schedule of engagement — reviewed January, each year
EngagementStructureTypical termsNotes
Litigation & arbitrationHourly $695–$1,150 / hour Partner time only. Six-minute increments; no minimum charges, no file-opening fees.
Appellate briefingFlat fee From $90,000 / appeal Quoted after record review. Includes oral argument and one post-decision conference.
InvestigationsHourly, capped Cap set at engagement Monthly ceiling agreed in writing and revisited each quarter. No surprises in month four.
Quiet counselMonthly retainer $12,500 / month Unlimited calls; written answers within two business days. Twelve clients at any time, no more.
Select plaintiff mattersContingency One-third, sliding Taken rarely — two a year at most, and only where we would fund the case ourselves.

The first hour is not billed. Bring the papers; we will read them in front of you and tell you honestly whether you need us — or whether a well-written letter will do. Roughly a third of first meetings end with the second answer.

§ 06 — Correspondence

Write, or telephone. A partner answers.

There is no intake department. During trial, the telephone is answered until nine in the evening. If the matter is urgent, say so in the subject line and it will be read within the hour.

counsel@harrowsloane.com
Chambers
11 Hanover Square, Ninth Floor
New York, NY 10005
Telephone
(212) 555-0184
Hours
Monday–Friday, 8:30–18:30
Until 21:00 during trial
Of note
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