Integrity. Transparency. Results.
Through decades of service based upon integrity, transparency, and results, P&S Legal Advocacy is dedicated to earning your business.
Integrity
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – Richard Buckminster Fuller
P&S Legal Advocacy, PLLC adheres to sound moral and ethical principles to restore our clients to a state of undiminished condition. Our lawyers and advocacy teams listen to our clients, strive to understand the intricacies of the situation, and continuously strive to foster stable, trusting relationships.
Integrity Is A Skill and as with all skills it is developed over time. Integrity must endure years of practice and exposure to become a constant guideline for decisions. Integrity is the benchmark for all solutions at P&S Legal Advocacy.
Strong, Candid Relationships extend beyond our clients and include our colleagues, the courts, and our supporting agencies. Our professional personnel is dedicated to life-long learning in pursuit of excellence within our respective fields of endeavor.
Transparency
“The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.” -- John Tillotson
P&S Legal Advocacy, PLLC provides representation free of pretense and characterized by the ability to shed light on the pertinent issues.
Our Legal Team possesses excellent analytical skills which allow it to make sense of large volumes of information. The team also provides summaries in readable, understandable formats for each client.
Once the situation is properly analyzed, extensive research is conducted to prepare a legal strategy befitting the pertinent information of the case.
The strategy results from logical, reasonable assumptions and judgments based on the information presented.
Results
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – Carl Jung
P&S Legal Advocacy investigates each situation and carefully calculates methods to obtain the most tangible, beneficial outcome. P&S Legal Advocacy attorneys are creative and provide reasonable solutions to unique situations. Our team is willing and able to dedicate the hours of research, writing, and analysis necessary to get the job done. Our professionals persevere to understand the complex issues encountered and present the issues in compelling, easily understood writings and oral presentations.
Expertise
"Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise." - Michael Bugeja
Alternative Dispute Resolution Services (ADR)
P&S Legal Advocacy settles conflict encountered by our clients through various methods of ADR. Ms. Hukill holds certification in Alternative Dispute Resolution and has extensive experience in utilization of ADR techniques within business, non-profit, educational, and governmental settings. Ms. Pricer has vast experience in creation and implementation of interest-based problem solving and factfinding with global corporate settings and institutes of higher education.
Conciliation is a method focused on building positive relationships between parties to a dispute through third party conciliators. The conciliators are masterful in establishing communication, clarifying misperceptions, dealing with strong emotions, and building trust necessary for cooperative problem-solving. P&S Legal Advocacy specializes in providing neutral meeting space, carrying initial messages between/among the parties, reality testing regarding perceptions or misperceptions, and affirming the parties' abilities to work together. Conciliation is key in promoting open dialogues, building positive perceptions, and enhancing trust.
Interest-based problem-solving creates effective solutions while improving the relationship between the parties. The process separates the person from the problem, explores all interests defining issues clearly, brainstorms possibilities and opportunities, and uses mutually agreed-upon standards to reach solutions. Trust in the process is a common theme in successful interest-based problem-solving which can be effectively applied in many contexts where two or more parties are seeking to reach an agreement.
Dispute panels provide one or more neutral/impartial individuals to parties for clarification of misperceptions, information gap filling, or neutral interpretation of data or facts. Panels are utilized to review conflicting data or facts and suggest ways to reconcile differences. Recommendations may be procedural or may involve specific substantive recommendations as needed. Information analyses and suggestions made by the panel may be used by the parties in other processes such as negotiations. As an informal process, parties have considerable latitude on the use of the panel. Dispute panels are particularly useful when viewed as non-threatening and have established a reputation for working through and resolving disputes short of using more formal resolution measures or litigation.
Early neutral evaluation provides a neutral/impartial third party to provide a non-binding evaluation. The written evaluation gives parties an objective perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of their cases. Under this method, parties usually provide informal presentations to the neutral to highlight the parties' cases or positions. Early neutral evaluation is appropriate when the dispute involves factual issues that lend themselves to expert evaluation, when parties disagree significantly about the value of their cases, and when top decision-makers could be better informed about the real strengths and weaknesses of their cases. Early neutral evaluation is an excellent alternative to expensive and time-consuming discovery procedures.
Factfinding uses impartial experts (or groups) selected by the parties, an agency, or by an individual with the authority to appoint a factfinder to determine which "facts" are in a dispute. The efficacy of factfinding is the expectation that the opinion of a trusted and impartial neutral will carry weight with the parties. If hired as Factfinders, P&S Legal Advocacy professionals will not resolve or decide policy issues; they will investigate or evaluate the matter presented and file a report establishing the facts in the matter. Clients may authorize P&S Legal to issue either a situation assessment or a specific non-binding procedural or substantive recommendation as to how a dispute might be resolved. In cases where such recommendations are not required, the data or facts will be collected and organized in a fashion that facilitates further negotiations aids in later adversarial procedures.
Consultation for Victim Services within Indian Country
Ms. Hukill, Founding Partner has twenty years’ experience in direct representation of victims, research, presentation of educational materials, and program management. Armed with this experience and certification in Native American Law, Ms. Hukill provides consultation services to legal, education, and social service professionals serving Indian Country in the protection of victims of interpersonal violence.