The complaint is filed, the clock is running, and this week you choose who stands up for you. We answer today. We’re on the docket this week. The same bench the Fortune 500 pays $2,500 an hour for. Yours at $200.
He has had months, a lawyer, and nobody arguing back. That ends the day you hire us.
He controlled exactly one thing: the date. He does not control what this case becomes. Which claims get attacked, whether it turns into a motion instead of a discovery slog, whether his own conduct ends up on trial — every one of those is yours to choose.
Almost every business case ends in a number. It is not set by who was right. It is set by how many claims are still standing after the motions, what his own lawyer has told him it costs to keep going, and whether he believes you will actually try it.
To get a final judgment, he must prove every element of the cause of action. Every hurdle. You only have to win one.
Big firms bill $2,500 an hour and up, because at those firms the hour is the product. We rebuilt the back end around AI — so our clients land near $200.
Most of the damage is self-inflicted, in the first two weeks, before anybody hires a lawyer.
A default judgment gives the plaintiff everything he demanded without proving any of it. Undoing one costs far more than answering on time.
Moving money, changing the locks, deleting emails. Self-help hands a plaintiff the injunction he could never have won on the merits.
Every text and voicemail after the filing becomes an exhibit. Owners talk their way into admissions that counsel then spends a year undoing.
An answer that denies everything preserves nothing. Time-barred claims get thrown out on a motion — and only if somebody makes it.
Fewer than one civil case in twenty ever reaches a verdict. The rest are decided by what survives the motions — and by who the other side thinks they are up against.
We read the complaint before our call with you and tell you exactly what we need to do to put up the best defense.
Appearance filed. We take the reins from here. Your free time stops being your front line of defense.
We deliver you a bespoke case assessment telling you exactly where the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses are. Then we attack.
We file a motion to kill every weak claim in the lawsuit. Counterclaims are filed to put the plaintiff on his back foot.
Joe Prencipe trained at the leader of the Magic Circle of global law firms and the fourth largest law firm in the world, and clerked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That is the bench Fortune 500 defendants buy at $2,500 an hour. He built Prencipe International so a New York business owner could hire it without the Park Avenue invoice.
Full episodes, nothing gated, no signup. All three recorded this year.
A running file for defendants — the motions that work, the claims that die on their own, and the decisions that cost the most in the first month.
Ten pages written for owners, not lawyers: what the plaintiff has to prove, the moves that win the first seventy-two hours, and where cases like yours really end. Written after a decade of defending them.
You are going to hire somebody this week, and the firm you pick decides what this case ends up costing you. Spend one call making sure it is the right one.