Counsel for the
moments that decide
everything that follows.
Sterling & Voss is a private practice of trial lawyers, deal makers, and quiet advisors. We work with founders, families, and institutions through the matters that define them.
62
Years in practice
$28B+
In transactions advised
94%
Trial verdicts in favor
III
Continents · 9 jurisdictions
A practice
shaped by
consequence.
Six core practice groups, integrated by design. Each engagement begins with the same question — what outcome would change the trajectory of this matter? — and is staffed accordingly.
How counsel
should feel.
Three commitments we keep on every matter — institutional and individual.
Plain language.
Strategy that survives the elevator. We render complex matters in language a board can decide on, in a paragraph a client can repeat.
Senior attention.
Partner-led teams from origination to outcome. The lawyer who answers the call is the lawyer who tries the case.
Long horizons.
We measure success in decades, not billables. Most of our clients have been with us through more than one chapter of their life.
Sterling & Voss carried our family through three decades — a generational sale, two estates, one quiet crisis. They were the only call we ever needed to make.
Margaret H. Winters
Chair Emerita, Winters & Sons (private)
Counsel of record.
Eleanor R. Sterling
Founding Partner · Litigation
Theodore K. Voss
Managing Partner · Corporate
Adaeze N. Okonkwo
Partner · Private Wealth
Begin a conversation.
Most engagements begin with a single, confidential call. Tell us briefly what you are facing — we will respond within one business day.