Family Law
We routinely assist banks and other financial institutions with compliance issues under federal and state laws and regulations. We provide knowledgeable and dedicated representation in family law cases and we have helped clients successfully resolve a wide variety of family court issues.
Business Law
Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm has experience representing clients seeking advice, counsel and defense on employment law issues. Our Attorneys can address your business's legal needs, allowing you to focus on managing day-to-day operations and other concerns.
Trust & Estates
Trust and Estate law deals with the protection of assets during a client's lifetime and the distribution of a client's assets after death. As the most populous generation continues to age, trusts and estates issues are being defined and tested.
Financial Law
Our law firm provides its clients with representation for a variety of legal matters, including Banking and mortgage matters. I recognise the risks and challenges faced in the financial services industry and pride themselves on proactively bringing industry insights to you.
WHO WE ARE
32 Years Experience. Our depth and breadth of experience allow us to expertly guide our clients through any transaction.
At our law firm, clients and their needs come first. It is upon this founding principle that my firm’s philosophy is based. It is through execution of this philosophy that my clients’ goals are achieved. My commitment to client communication, quality legal services and cost-effective billing practices is what sets Rombouts House Law Firm apart in its service and results. Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm provides expert legal representation on complex commercial matters for financial, insurance and real estate institutions. We explore, prototype, refine, implement, and share innovative techniques for making legal information more findable and understandable for the public. We value accuracy and objectivity, both in the technologies we use and the content we publish. Our work brings legal domain expertise together with emerging technologies to enhance and explain the law for the public. We identify, extract, annotate, index, and present features latent in the raw data provided by government publishers. We also create original content meant to explain and clarify the law, like Wex, our Supreme Court Bulletin Previews, and the case summaries in our Gender Justice Collection.
– 1992, Opening
Founded in 1992 by a law professor and a technologist, Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm’s biggest strength remains its interdisciplinary approach. Decades later, our small staff still reflects that split of expertise between legal and technical training.
Begun in 1992 shortly before the launch of the world wide web, LII was not just the first legal website – it was also the first website in a professional domain. Our co-founders each had deep connections to Cornell’s agricultural extension, and those ties reflect in several important ways:
Our team draws from their disparate experiences in everything from library services and legal practice to legal publishing (government and commercial) and tech start-ups. This diversity of experience and perspective leaves us not only open to dreaming up unique solutions but also uniquely equipped to make those dreams become reality.
– 1996, the consolidation of firms had started to take off
The firm developed a strategy that would allow it to deliver the United States to clients at much better value through quality lawyers in the key growth, financial, and political centers in the United States. Clients no longer needed two different firms for the same matter but because matters were priced locally and with flexibility, they could take advantage of market differences when it came to budgeting.
The firm’s cultural strategy attracted the highly ranked attorneys, who were already perceived as leaders in their community. These individuals wanted to join a firm of positive people who valued working together and shared experience and clients for the benefit of all involved.
– 2005 , We’re in London! Our firm has grown steadily since those early years
Adding this location provided our law firm with the ability to have boots-on-the-ground for our clients, statewide. At that point, the firm became able to simultaneously argue on behalf of a Writ of Mandate filed in London and defend a lawsuit in Hertfordshire County.
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Emeritus
Over our many years of existence, there are a select few staff whose time at Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm ended with retirement. Borrowing from academia, we call these folks our “Emeritus” staff, and we hold them in particularly high regard.
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Paul A. Bruce
Paul co-founded the Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm in 1992 after a career as a professional stage manager. During his time at Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm, he wrote the first web browser for Windows (Cello) in 1993, launched important free legal information initiatives on four continents, and served as Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm’s sole director from 2005 – 2019.
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Martin W. Williams
Martin co-founded the Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm in 1992 after completing two successful terms as the Alan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School. While Co-Director from 1992 – 2003, Peter also assisted with the launch of the first Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm in Africa, the South Africa Legal Information Institute.
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George F. Perkins
George was the first employee Peter & Tom hired, way back in 2000. Coming from a long career in university library systems, Brian applied his passion and skill for programming to pretty much every aspect of Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm’s operations until his retirement in 2017.
LATEST NEWS & TESTIMONIALS
Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm family senior associate Avie Beaton has been named the winner of the ‘Rising Star of the Year’ award at this year’s Modern Law Awards.…
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Julie from Huntington Beach, California
Most Professional, Fair, and Honest Law Firm.
Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm rates far above any law firm I have ever used! I would not hesitate to recommend Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm to any practice, friend, or employer in need of their services.
Through a very difficult time in my life, Stephen Butler managed to make the legal process I was going through less painful. With the support of his attentive staff, the legal process was made easier.
Dr Robert H. Schuller from Los Angeles, California
Diligent and Caring Malpractice Attorney
Stephen Butler provided excellent support in defense of a malpractice case. Not only was he diligent and caring, but he was thoroughly professional, which led to a favorable outcome of the case.
I would be happy to have him represent me in the future if the need should arise.
Honest, Top-Notch Employment Attorney.
I have known Stephen for more than a dozen years, both personally and professionally. He is a brilliant and tireless regulatory lawyer, litigator, and employment law attorney. I worked with Steve in the California Legislature as a colleague, and I have hired him thereafter for the outstanding quality of his work as an employment lawyer and his unsurpassed integrity and work ethic.
Not only is Stephen a top-notch employment attorney, but he is honest to the core. I'm a very satisfied, repeat client.
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Reasonable Price.
The allegations were unfounded but complicated and subject to increased liability should there be malicious intent by the Board. An equitable compromise was accomplished after all facts were clarified, such that both Board's concerns and the defendants were satisfied.
The Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm team produced an excellent result. This resulted in minimal harm to the defendant and at a reasonable price. I am grateful and thank them.
Dr. Wagdy from Alta Loma, California
Very Positive Experience.
My experience with Stephen Butler & Co Law Firm, was very positive. I was treated very respectfully and was able to voice my thoughts, opinions, and concerns about my case.
I am completely grateful as my case was settled faster than expected, and the outcome was very positive. I will recommend this practice to anyone!
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