Mandel Bhandari LLP

Mandel Bhandari is a litigation firm that specializes in trials.The firm handles both business disputes and civil rights cases.We prepare for each matter for trial from day one.After being engaged, we immediately develop a trial plan tailored to the individual case, identifying from the outset what issues will be decisive in the dispute. We focus hard on the evidence and rulings that we will need to win—and by staying focused, we minimize the time and cost required to resolve the dispute.

Our approach only works when every member of the legal team has the experience needed to try and win the case. That is why virtually all of our lawyers have at least ten years of experience litigating business disputes.Since the firm was founded in 2009, we have tried over twenty cases.For instance, in an $100 million case arising out of contracts for the sale of iron, we were able to successfully settle the case shortly after we made our opening statement.By focusing early on the issues that matter most, before depositions began, we were able to obtain a $55 million settlement for a client claiming that a counterparty had breached a pharmaceutical product license.When a counter-party has an unrealistic assessment of the case, it is necessary to try the case through verdict.That is precisely what happened in an action for breach of a stock option agreement, in which a jury returned a $7.5 million verdict for our client.

This breadth and depth of experience means that only one or two lawyers work on any given task, and that the task is completed in a fraction of the time and cost that would take a group of inexperienced lawyers to complete.

Experience, however, is not enough. Lawyers, like most people, are most effective when they love their work. And we love to try cases. We love arguing a case to the jury; we love appearing before a judge. Our passion for what we do is not lost on our clients, our adversaries, or the judges and juries before whom we appear. And it makes a difference in the outcomes that we achieve.

We don’t like to be paid by the hour. We prefer to be paid more when we achieve good outcomes and paid less when we don’t. When we represent plaintiffs, we prefer contingency fee arrangements, or blended fees based partly on the outcome obtained and partly on the hours spent on the case. When we represent defendants, we favor success fee arrangements, with our compensation tied to the outcome of the case.

Because our compensation depends upon the results we achieve, we make sure that every hour counts. The compensation of all of our attorneysdepends on the results that we achieve as opposed to the number of hours that are billed.

Mandel Bhandari LLP

80 Pine Street, 33rd Floor

New York, NY 10005