Fitter Law exists so that an Illinois business owner
never has to choose between
calling a lawyer and making payroll.
Fitter Law is led by one attorney, by design. Clients work directly with founder Jawad I. Fitter across business formation and governance, commercial contracts, financing, employment, intellectual property, commercial real estate, and the disputes that arise from them. Where a matter calls for a specialist or out-of-state counsel, the firm brings in and manages the right lawyer rather than stretching beyond its competence.
Before founding Fitter Law, Jawad Fitter worked alongside large law firms, corporate legal departments and compliance teams, and before that managed money for clients as a wealth manager and banker. Two things stood out: the traditional firm’s overhead and hourly meter price most growing companies out of good advice, and the companies that get into trouble are usually the ones that stopped calling their lawyer. The lessons that shape the firm:
The Fitter Law subscription model was developed in the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Solo and Small Practice Incubator, a program that gives a small group of entrepreneurial Chicago-Kent graduates the training and support to build their own practices.
The question the incubator posed was practical: how does a small business get a real lawyer’s judgment at a price it can budget for? The subscription plan is the answer, and it has shaped everything the firm has done since.