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A Premiere Legal Legacy

Since 1967, Goetz Fitzpatrick has put successful resolutions within reach, applying our finely-tuned acumen and resources to carve out a path forward for entrepreneurs and businesses

50 Years of Expertise

Our milestones are the source of our momentum and even after all these years, Goetz Fitzpatrick is still going places.

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Core Values

At Goetz Fitzpatrick, our core values are TIER: Teamwork, Integrity, Excellence, and Respect. Our TIER values guide our work and interactions with clients, colleagues, and the community. Our collaboration and striving for excellence and ethics in everything we do results in the best legal advice to our clients and each other.

Teamwork

Working collaboratively with our clients and each other is essential to positive and creative solutions for our clients. We provide practical and strategic advice to our clients tailored to meet each client’s individual needs, whether a business or individual. We approach each case as unique, leveraging our colleagues’ diversified experience, background, and skill set to achieve the best possible outcome. We use our best efforts to foster a culture of teamwork that empowers both our team members and clients to achieve excellent results.

Integrity

Our commitment to integrity is reflected in every aspect of our work, from our connections with our clients to the approach to our clients’ confidential and sensitive information and problems. Honesty, transparency, and ethical behavior are essential elements of our strong relationships with our clients and colleagues. We are dedicated to upholding the trust and confidence that our clients place in us.

Excellence

We commit to excellence in our work. This means thinking “like a lawyer” and personalizing the approach to the specific issues presented to us by our clients, which they come to us to resolve.

Respect

The practice of law is stressful, particularly in advocacy situations like litigation. We believe in the value of respect and understand its role as a fundamental aspect of building strong relationships with our clients, the court, colleagues, and our community. We strive to achieve that balance between advocacy and adversarialness and create an open environment that enhances our other core values of teamwork, integrity, excellence, and respect.

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A Culture of Transparency

Goetz Fitzpatrick has cultivated an open, rewarding environment—one defined by integrity. It’s also a place where our associates thrive. Here, there are no ivory towers. Instead, you’ll find a team of dedicated, hands-on legal strategists who are fully invested in their work. And in building relationships that bring results.

Representation

From construction law to real estate and our other core disciplines, our attorneys’ experience covers a wide spectrum. Representing our clients with a strategy that is tailored to their specific needs is our strength. The way we see it, managing the complexities of these varied industries requires a diverse set of disciplines, which we have assembled to serve all of your legal needs.

Giving Back

at our firm,

70%

of attorneys serve on boards of foundations, not-for-profits, and charities.

There’s a special sense of satisfaction that comes from helping our clients face and overcome challenges. Goetz Fitzpatrick is honored to put its time, energy and specialized skills to work for a range of deserving organizations, people and causes in the New York area we call home. Above all, we know that our community outreach initiatives help change the lives of those in need—just as they reward our own.

Awards

in 2020,

32%

of our attorneys have been named Superlawyers

While the work of Goetz Fitzpatrick has been recognized by several prestigious legal industry organizations, we’re not out to line our walls with trophies. Because, more than the awards themselves, we take pride in what they represent: a validation of our firm’s values... an affirmation of its commitment to the highest standards of excellence... and, just as importantly, the unique devotion and individual accomplishments of our attorneys. Now that’s something worth honoring.