At MCJ Attorneys we believe the process of work has eternal significance and is part of our calling to live for God’s glory that can be expressed through faith, hope and love and that we therefore exist to:
- pursue our responsibility to glorify God and to live out our Christian values, principles, morals and the business ethics upon which our firm is founded and built;
- conduct business in harmony with God’s creational purpose and operate in faith with discipline, honesty and integrity;
- treat every customer with dignity, respect and compassion and as a person to be loved and appreciated, whether or not business is transacted;
- serve our customers by providing creative and cost effective customised legal and business solutions to their ever-evolving challenges through progressive and innovative thinking and as such to add value at reasonable fee structures.
In an ever-changing legal landscape and highly competitive marketplace where lifestyles have changed dramatically in terms of how people want to live and where key trends have affected how legal services are being delivered, the need for excellence in client service becomes a key differentiator and client relationships, being a driver for client loyalty and repeat and referral business, are essential for greater success and advancement. We pride ourselves on our high quality of service delivery supported by outstanding knowledge, experience and skills. Our policy is to develop close, long-term relationships with our clients and to focus on all-round proactive legal services aimed at helping to prevent legal problems and to solve them. While we have built our reputation over time as a highly professional team with qualified and experienced professionals and efficient supporting staff who render a comprehensive range of exceptional services associated with superior quality, we understand that we also need to keep our reputation a top concern and apply effective, ethical and professional methods proven successful in rendering our legal and commercial services to enable us to ultimately become a value adding strategic partner to our respective clients’ businesses.
Our firm prides itself on its technical excellence and its ability to provide straight forward, practical and complex advice in a clear, concise and uncomplicated manner. We understand that our clients often need sensitive handling and we therefore nurture our clients by adding a human touch and relying on mutual trust and confidentiality. We also appreciate the commercial needs of our clients for flexible, specialist independent agreements with appropriate consideration to management of risk, confidentiality, intellectual property, copyright aimed at protecting trade secrets and proprietary information and uniquely tailored restraint of trade, ensuring incorporation of changes in practice, legislation and court pronouncements from time to time.
We are solution and result driven and believe that our clients and we are defining success together! We strive to provide tailormade professional legal and incidental services, advice and related activities which:
- are adapted to our clients' specific needs and circumstances;
- originate from our education, knowledge, experience, skills and continuous research, training and professional development; and
- ensure that we acquire and maintain a high level of technical expertise and meet the most recent requirements as dictated by the legal profession's regulatory body, by proactively planning and designing creative, unique and innovative solutions to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.
Recognising the importance of multi-disciplinary input, we embrace working with other experienced professionals who provide additional expertise in resolving concerns and challenges to provide our clients with a holistic understanding of their legal problems and to deliver a fitting packaged solution.
We undertake to be a trustworthy and reputable source and provider of legal services and advance the rule of law in our surrounding areas and amenities, and furthermore to uphold the basic principles for lawful processing of personal information as set out in the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 and also subscribe to the Protection of Individual Privacy Rights of data subjects as is required under the Constitution of South Africa.
While we believe that we have a fundamental responsibility to assist in improving the lives of individuals and communities, we are committed to playing an active part in society and to make positive contributions to the communities in which we operate.
We would like to extend our gratitude to all our valued clients for their continued support and would once again like to emphasize this firm’s commitment to service excellence, while we look forward to continuing and furthering existing and forming new and lasting business relationships in future.
