At Dismuke, Waters & Schriedel, excellence is standard.  Excellence is our uncompromising commitment to the best in quality, service and value for our clients.  In any pursuit excellence requires passion and a sincere enjoyment of the work you undertake  Our Firm finds great satisfaction in helping our clients find creative solutions to their legal challenges, and we remain committed to putting in the time, effort, and ongoing professional training necessary to offer our clients the finest legal representation available. Anything short of this is unacceptable Integrity implies a oneness between words and action. People of integrity conform their words to their actions.  We value trustworthiness and ethical behavior in all that we do, and are committed to this principle in our internal and external relationships, communications and transactions.  To make sure that we meet the standard we have for ourselves, we are accountable to ourselves, as well as to our clients. Our Firm is committed to being of service to other through our actions as well as through our work product.  We embrace our role as responsibilities as "counselors at law," and we live out our values by actively listening with compassion as well as our analytical abilities.  Our attitude toward serving our clients shows in our respect for our clients' time and resources, and working with a responsible sense of urgency to meet our clients' needs. At the foundation of our value system is an unwavering commitment to work in our profession in a way that provides glory to God.  Hence, the standards that we affirm to one another are not those we have created, but which are found deeply rooted in our personal faiths.  We know that our ultimate accountability in our lives is to our God, and not just to our clients.