I asked him what his clients collect.
Brian Bavosa, a 41 year-old Westfield resident who is one of Mr. Levine's clients, collects movie memorabilia.
Many lawyers, like Ms. Troccoli, charge nothing to clients, collecting fees from car makers if and when they prevail.
In one way, his job was easy: Wolf's clients collect large-scale contemporary art, hardly the stuff of stuffy rooms.
"Sixty percent of our clients collect in areas other than postwar and contemporary art, where price and quality have remained stable over the past decade," said Marc Porter, chairman of Christie's in America.
The most obvious business line that competes with Wall Street is Tradebook, a subsidiary of Bloomberg that is registered to trade on behalf of clients, collecting valuable commissions for each trade.
Criminal lawyers in China have long spoken of "Three Difficulties": how hard it is for them to meet with clients, collect evidence about their cases and review the evidence gathered by the prosecution.
AT ITS PEAK Shawn Porat and Ismail Humet started P & H Capital with $4,000 while Mr. Humet was working as a Wall Street analyst and Mr. Porat was running Recovery of Judgment, which helps clients collect legal judgments.
Finally, the corporate lawyers who had joined advocates for the homeless on the case agreed to give up more than $1 million in legal fees in order to reach a settlement that would let their clients collect everything that they were owed.
After that, Side handles all the administrative tasks — billing clients, collecting payments and paying you.
