About Us

Clients are enti­tled to expect that their legal advi­sors are com­pe­tent and well-trained, offer qual­ity ser­vice and have integrity. At MJM these qual­i­ties are hall­marks of the ser­vice our attor­neys and staff pro­vide. We endeav­our to develop long-term rela­tion­ships with our clients and offer a high degree of part­ner involve­ment in the work that we do. We offer prac­ti­cal, com­mon sense advice and imple­ment our instruc­tions in a respon­sive and care­ful way. We work hard to pro­vide a well planned and timely response to our clients’ needs. This is how we earn trust and develop long last­ing client rela­tion­ships in all areas of practice.

MJM

The law firm, MJM, oper­ates as a true part­ner­ship with 17 attor­neys and total staff com­po­nent of 60. Man­age­ment of the firm is del­e­gated to a Prac­tice Direc­tor who is sup­ported by a man­age­ment team includ­ing a Finan­cial Con­troller, a Human Resources Man­ager and an Infor­ma­tion Ser­vices Manager.

The Quo­rum Group pro­vides incor­po­ra­tion and all cor­po­rate admin­is­tra­tive ser­vices for inter­na­tional and local clients. Fidu­ciary Part­ners Trust Com­pany Ltd. (FPTCL) is licensed to con­duct trust busi­ness by the Bermuda Mon­e­tary Author­ity and pro­vides trustee­ship and trust admin­is­tra­tion ser­vices to inter­na­tional and local clients. Both the Quo­rum Group and FPTCL have man­agers who over­see deliv­ery of client service.

MJM uses lead­ing edge tech­nol­ogy for the deliv­ery of ser­vice thereby mak­ing the high­est and best use of our intel­lec­tual cap­i­tal and pro­vid­ing effec­tive ser­vices as effi­ciently as pos­si­ble for our clients. We oper­ate an inte­grated file, email and doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem designed espe­cially for the legal ser­vices indus­try. We use Autonomy’s File­Site DMS and Infoware’s doc­u­ment tem­plat­ing tools inte­grated with an up to date email­ing system.

Cor­po­rate Social Responsibility

Mak­ing A Difference

MJM is involved in com­mu­nity sup­port­ing char­i­ties and other non-profit endeav­ours. The firm tends to attract and hire car­ing peo­ple who are cog­nizant of the needs of oth­ers and who will­ingly take action to meet those needs. MJM con­sis­tently pro­duces high staff par­tic­i­pa­tion rates in the char­i­ta­ble events it spon­sors. In rec­i­p­ro­cal fash­ion the firm is a will­ing to assist indi­vid­ual staff mem­bers who choose to sup­port worth­while com­mu­nity activ­i­ties on their own.

The firm has an ongo­ing com­mit­ment to sup­port Bermuda’s Age Con­cern orga­ni­za­tion by offer­ing a vol­un­teer legal clinic for Bermuda’s senior cit­i­zens. Age Concern’s mis­sion is to cre­ate the con­di­tions that make the best of the lives of older cit­i­zens through infor­ma­tion, advo­cacy and edu­ca­tion in part­ner­ship with com­mu­nity orga­ni­za­tions. So suc­cess­ful was the first event in Octo­ber 2006 that Age Con­cern invited MJM back to han­dle those who were turned away because of over-subscription. The sec­ond legal clinic event was held in May 2007 at Char­i­ties House in Paget and ben­e­fited over 100 of our country’s seniors. The pro­gramme is now deliv­ered twice annu­ally. Our rela­tion­ship with Age Con­cern has devel­oped to the point where MJM is a Link Part­ner with the char­ity in which we pro­vide both finan­cial and in-kind sup­port to the organization.

MJM also sup­ports on a reg­u­lar basis Bermuda’s annual ‘End to End Walk’ event. This is an island-long fund rais­ing walk with thou­sands of peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing. The walk is Bermuda’s largest and most suc­cess­ful com­mu­nity wide fund rais­ing event. Hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars have been raised over the last 20 years. Finan­cial sup­port is pro­vided to many of Bermuda char­i­ties through the End to End Walk. Those who par­tic­i­pate know that MJM con­tributes walk­ers to the event and is a Prin­ci­pal Spon­sor, includ­ing the ‘last water stop’ before arriv­ing at the Dock­yard destination.

Char­i­ta­ble Dona­tions Policy

The firm has a char­i­ta­ble dona­tions pol­icy which helps guide its phil­an­thropic decision-making. Excerpts from the firm’s pol­icy doc­u­ment follow.

• MJM will make char­i­ta­ble dona­tions on an annual basis.
• The total amount to be donated will be bud­geted in April of each year and will be based on a review of the firm’s recent finan­cial results and its fore­cast per­for­mance for the fol­low­ing year.
• Dona­tions will be made to orga­ni­za­tions which have “sig­nif­i­cant local presence”.
• Requests for char­i­ta­ble dona­tions received through­out the year will be retained and han­dled by a phil­an­thropy com­mit­tee. The com­mit­tee will con­sider the request in light of the char­i­ties’ ‘busi­ness cases’ sub­mit­ted. All char­i­ties must be “prop­erly reg­is­tered”. Pref­er­ence will be shown to those char­i­ties which are able to sup­ply cur­rent finan­cial statements.
• Pref­er­ence will be given to orga­ni­za­tions which clearly sup­port “those who have not”.
• The firm will make an annual con­tri­bu­tion to orga­ni­za­tions rais­ing money for the treat­ment of, and search for a cure for, any form of cancer.
• With the excep­tion of dona­tions to fight can­cer, it is expected that the phil­an­thropy com­mit­tee will vary its sup­port for char­i­ta­ble dona­tions one year to the next.
• The phil­an­thropy com­mit­tee will con­sist of two part­ners, the Finan­cial Con­troller and, on a rota­tional basis, two attor­neys and one sup­port staff mem­ber appointed by the partners.