The Field Guide
Choosing the Right Piece, Explained
Practical, no-nonsense guides to the details that matter — padfolio or portfolio, card case or wallet, fine nib or medium, the instruments of the cigar ritual, the Churchill or the Silk, and the catalog case: hand carry or wheeled.
Two briefcases, one three-hundred-year-old reason lawyers still care what they carry — the real history of the barrister's red bag and the word "briefcase," and a field guide to choosing between En...
Read moreThe Catalog Case: Hand Carry or Wheeled?
A catalog case exists for one reason — the matter outgrew what a briefcase could hold. The only real choice left is mechanical: carry it, or roll it. A field guide to Korchmar's Workhorse and Litig...
Read moreThe smallest decision you will make before a deposition, and the one your client actually notices. A field guide to choosing between a padfolio and a portfolio.
Read moreThe object you hand to someone, versus the one you keep to yourself. A field guide to choosing between a business card case and a card wallet.
Read moreThe stroke width you choose once, and then write with for the next twenty years. A field guide to choosing a fountain pen nib.
Read moreThe profession's oldest closing ceremony — and the four instruments it actually requires. A field guide to the cigar ritual for the practicing lawyer.
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Materials
Every piece we offer is either crafted to our standard or curated to meet it. We put our name on nothing less.
Our values
Quality that outlasts trends. Discretion over flash. Nothing offered that we wouldn't carry ourselves.