Ted Krebsbach: We live in an age of regulation. The best people out there in the financial services field are at risk of having an investigation or an inquiry that could change the whole course of their professional life overnight. I've never seen the type of regulation and extense of the regulation that we have now. We take great pride in taking people who were being accused of wrongdoing and making sure we're protecting them.

Michael Rella: Our clients, for the most part, tend to be financial institutions, market makers, broker dealers, RIA firms, hedge funds, private equity shops, so on and so forth. In these litigation matters, we represent them in a wide variety of disputes. So, anything from data privacy breach issues to complex commercial litigation matters to allegations from investors that our clients breached the federal securities laws to mortgage back securities related matters.

Paul Merolla: The securities regulation is a very dynamic discipline, and it is changing all the time, all with the view of protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets. Our job as a law firm is to stay abreast of those changes and advise our clients, accordingly.

Len Amoruso: Its ever growing list of regulatory requirements requires firms to not only read and digest these complex rules, but it requires them to develop procedures and controls designed to enforce these rules internally, along with periodic checks and reviews. And if this is not daunting enough, firms continue to face the real specter everyday of regulatory investigations, enforcement action, civil litigation and even criminal prosecution. These types of actions can result in judgments that result in millions of dollars of fines and penalties, not to mention the fallout and repercussions that can stem from criminal prosecutions.

Ted Krebsbach: I had created my own firm about 20 years ago called Krebsbach & Snyder, and our entire firm joined up with Murphy & McGonigle in 2012.

Sharon O'Shaughnessy: I was drawn to Murphy and McGonigal because the culture here is truly unique. Tone trickles from the top down, and James Murphy and Tom McGonigle have worked very hard to cultivate an atmosphere that is free from office politics. So we can all concentrate on what really matters and what we need to do, which is providing the best legal services that we can to our clients. When you look at our roster, we have attorneys who served in very senior positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and FINRA. That inside knowledge that our attorneys have who have served a regulatory agencies is so beneficial to our clients who face regulatory enquiries.

Ted Krebsbach: We're able to look at issues from our client's perspective and really give excellent client service, which is what it's all about. It's a rapidly changing world. Things that, you know, I might have thought were important five years ago. You don't hear about as much now. The products constantly change; the issues constantly change. One of the big changes we see is in the area of technology, and this firm seems very well positioned, and we know is very focused on that issue.

Len Amoruso: So in short, we're able to blend together unmatched regulatory experience with the very practical experience of seasoned, in-house attorneys so that we're able to provide truly actionable advice to clients, advice that they are able to effectively implement in a real world setting and synthesize into their control structure in a very cost effective way.

Christina M. Hill: At Murphy & McGonigle, we focus on the securities law, which is a very narrow area of law practice, in general. However, the scope of what we deal with is very large. There's a lot to know, and it's very important that you have someone who sort of works with that on a daily basis.

Thomas J. McGonigle: We've been together as a group, the core group, since the mid eighties and with the Securities and Exchange Commission together and since then have practiced together on and off with a number of very, very fine firms. And we thought that by having a firm that concentrated solely in that nature, we could actually provide services that were deeper and more concentrated, if you will, for their particular need, as opposed to a larger firm, who offers a variety of disciplines who may not be as deep as we are in securities regulations. There's probably a greater need for legal service now than ever before because there's ever increasing regulation of ever increasing complexity.

Matthew B. Comstock: If you're a broker dealer and you're functioning in a world where regulatory landscape is fairly difficult to understand, the technology is changing rapidly. Your chances of success as a brokerage firm are going to be much, much higher if you have advisors, including lawyers who understand the entire environment in which the broker dealer functions. Whether that's regulatory, technological or otherwise.

Thomas J. McGonigle: The traditional model is one that applies for a certain set of cases, but not for all cases. And so, to the extent that a firm like ours can be nimble can provide different billing strategies, different billing arrangements; can offer different ways to approach a problem; can staff things differently than a traditional law firm does. That's the innovation that I think we're known for and where we have our niche in the marketplace.

Hong Le Webb: You can find great attorneys anywhere you go. I've been at many different law firms, and I understand that there's the business side of operating a law firm and then the business of practicing law. I believe that Murphy & McGonigle marries both very well, so that we get the resources we need to be able to practice our profession. I'm part of a group of women attorneys who really like being with each other, like supporting each other, and I think it impacts on the culture of the firm and the type of work we do. I think it's very important to be in a place where your family life is as supported as your professional life.

Christina M. Hill: If you speak with Tom McGonigle, Tom McGonigle is gonna represent you. You will continue to talk to the people at the top. And he'll have a team, and you may speak to some other of us. But, you know, a lot of times you go to other, particularly bigger firms and you're attracted because you know the name partner or someone who is very well known in that industry. You speak to them first, but then they end up not doing a lot of work on your case. That doesn't happen here.

Thomas J. McGonigle: If you walk down the hallways of our of our firm here in the DC office, you come upon the former executive director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former associate director of Enforcement, you come across former associate directors of trading and markets, you come across officials who worked at FINRA, senior officials from the Department of Justice; and I think we've attracted those all-stars to our firm because of our ability to let them practice law, to put together an all-star team, to let them do what they need to do with their practice, give them the tools that they need to succeed. And then get out of their way, and let them provide service to their clients.