Birch Hill Chambers has stood not only in courtrooms and before agencies - but also at the cutting tables, in the sample rooms, and on the warehouse floors of America’s garment industry.

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  Led by Mr. von SCHOLZ, whose 35+ years in fashion sector representation run as deep as selvage denim, our business weaves legal insight with an insider’s understanding of how this business really works. We don’t just represent you - we understand you.

 

Who We Champion

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  We don’t speak at the garment world. We speak from within it. Our clients include:

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• Independent Designers & Legacy Brands
  Whether launching a capsule collection or safeguarding a fashion house, we secure what’s yours whether it’s your name, your cuts, your contracts, your vision.

• Cutting Rooms & Sample Shops
  From payroll audits to piece-rate protections, we advocate for operators who know that stitches per minute are only part of the story.

• Textile Mills & Fabricators
  We stand up for suppliers - foreign and domestic - navigating duties, delays, and disputes at the loading dock or across the arbitration table.

• Trims & Accessories Makers
  Buttons, buckles, labels, and lace - we ensure the “smalls” don’t get overlooked in big-dollar negotiations.

 

What We Do (And Why It Works)

 

  We provide non-attorney legal advocacy and strategic representation with the sophistication of a boutique law firm and the grit of a garmento born on 7th Avenue. Our services include:

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• Agency Representation
  Before the U.S. Department of Labor, Customs & Border Protection, State Labor Boards, and Wage & Hour enforcement actions. We handle it - before it handles you.

• Dispute Navigation
  We don’t just mediate - we anticipate. We negotiate on your terms, with your survival in mind. Because garment disputes don’t wait - and neither do we.

• Contract Stewardship
  From PO terms to exclusivity clauses, NDAs to private label agreements, we review, and suggest revisions to your documents before they unravel.

• Workforce & Compliance Oversight
  We help you keep your floors in line and your files in order - misclassification, wage-hour, and contractor audits are not a matter of if, but when.

• Brand & IP Advisory
  Protect your mood boards, your sketches, your samples, and your story. We help designers build, license, and defend their creative capital worldwide.​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Knowledge Sewn Into the Industry

 

  Our garment and textile representation isn’t a sideline … it’s a signature.

 

  We’ve been in this trade long enough to remember when sample tickets were stapled, not scanned. We don’t just know the legal landscape, we know the freight brokers, the buyers, the floor managers, and the tricks-of-the-trade that never make it into a textbook.

 

  We navigate the messy middle where style meets statute, where art meets audit, where the ink on the contract meets the dye lot at the port.

 

Birch Hill Chambers is where cloth meets code.
 

  If your business threads the needle between creativity, commerce, and compliance - we’re the tailor who knows how to cut it.

Based in New York.  Advocating worldwide.