Halberd & Stone is a mid-size commercial firm built for clients who want partner-level attention at every stage. Eighty-four attorneys. Four core practices. The same culture for forty-seven years.
We resist the temptation to be all things. Every attorney at Halberd & Stone is in one of the four practices below — and they know the cross-section cold.
Venture financings, public & private M&A, secondaries, recapitalizations. Founder-friendly term sheets, lifelong relationships.
Patent prosecution, trademark portfolios, copyright, trade secret. Litigators who write specifications and prosecutors who try cases.
Complex commercial, securities, breach of fiduciary duty, partnership disputes. State and federal trial work in 18 jurisdictions.
Estate planning, family office, charitable giving, executive compensation. Discreet counsel for founders and inheritors.
Halberd & Stone was founded in 1978 by Margaret Halberd and Theodore Stone, two former federal prosecutors who wanted to build a firm where partner attention was the rule, not the exception. Nearly fifty years later we look very different — three offices, four practices, a global client roster — but the structural choice is the same: we cap the firm's headcount at 90, we promote slowly, and we never staff a matter without a partner running it.
Meet the attorneysRanked Band 1 in three practice areas across two jurisdictions. 31 partners individually recognized in 2025. We don't pay for "best of" plaques — these are peer-reviewed rankings only.