The firm's litigation work is divided into three primary practice areas: civil litigation, criminal litigation and family law.

In the civil practice area, the firm has a particular emphasis on labor relations and employment litigation. It represents employers and employees both within and outside the collective bargaining context. Firm attorneys have handled numerous union organizing campaigns, elections and unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, employment discrimination, contract based and employment tort claims as well as complex employment related class actions involving thousands of employees. The firm also has extensive experience in personal injury, construction, commercial and administrative law cases. Firm attorneys have handled tort cases arising from air crashes, train derailments, sports injuries and countless automobile collisions.

In criminal litigation, the firm has an extensive history of defense work in state and federal courts. The firm's criminal lawyers defend clients in all kinds of criminal prosecutions, everything from DUI cases up to and including a federal murder indictment which seeks to impose the death penalty.

The firm's family law attorneys bring competence, broad experience, sensitivity and individualized attention to their clients. The attorneys treat each client with compassion, while pursuing his/her interests in the best arena for success, whether that is mediation, out-of-court settlement or in-court evidentiary hearings. The Hoff Curtis family law attorneys have represented clients in all areas of family law: divorce, adoption, custody, visitation, civil union dissolution, post-divorce matters, child support, separation, guardian ad litem work, property disputes, alimony, appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court, relief from abuse petitions, probate, guardianship, prenuptial agreements, qualified domestic relations orders, interstate custody and child support disputes, estate planning and real estate transactions. The Hoff Curtis family law attorneys are all parents, and understand the deep significance of that role.

Although the firm's work has focused on litigation and alternative dispute resolution, it has an emerging client counseling and transactional practice.

The firm believes that the abilities of its staff are enhanced, their professional lives are enriched, and the best interests of its clients are advanced, by active participation in professional activities. Firm lawyers and other staff members are regular, active participants and instructors in continuing legal education programs. They write about and teach members of the public on law related matters.