Lynch Carpenter

What Lynch Carpenter does

Lynch Carpenter LLP is a national plaintiffs-side complex litigation and class-action law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in Philadelphia, San Diego, Los Angeles, and an administrative office in New Castle. Founded in 2013, the firm represents consumers, workers, students, and small businesses against corporate defendants across seven core practice areas: data breach and privacy litigation, employment and wage-and-hour, consumer protection, financial fraud and lending, higher-education refunds, antitrust, and a Disability Legal Clinic handling Social Security claims. The firm also offers mass arbitration services and acts in court-appointed leadership roles in major multidistrict litigations, including MOVEit (~80 million affected individuals), Philips CPAP ($1.6 billion+ settlements), TikTok ($92 million), TMX Finance ($35 million+), ParkMobile ($32 million+), and Penn State COVID tuition refund ($17 million).

The firm operates on a contingency-fee basis with free initial case evaluations; client acquisition is driven by a content-led funnel that combines GlobeNewsWire press releases announcing new breach investigations, SEO-optimized practice-area and investigation landing pages, paid retargeting via Meta/TikTok/Reddit pixels, and referrals. Client-side technology stack is commodity: Google Analytics, Zoho Forms, UserWay accessibility, and Cookiebot consent management — with no disclosed proprietary platform, AI/ML tooling, or technology product. Revenue derives from contingency-fee percentages of class-action settlements and judgments, with cumulative client recoveries exceeding $1 billion across the firm's history, including $250 million+ specifically in data-breach and privacy matters. The firm is privately held by its partners (Gary Lynch, Todd Carpenter, Kelly Iverson as Managing Partner of Operations, and additional named partners), with no external institutional investment and ~23 named attorneys across the five offices.

Name

Lynch Carpenter

Legal name

Lynch Carpenter LLP

Website

https://lynchcarpenter.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lynch Carpenter LLP is a national plaintiffs-side complex litigation and class-action law firm representing consumers, workers, and students in data-breach, employment, consumer-protection, and antitrust matters across five U.S. offices, with over $1 billion in cumulative class recoveries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pittsburgh

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Class Action and Mass Tort Contingency Fees: Lynch Carpenter represents plaintiffs in class action lawsuits, mass torts, and complex litigation on a contingency fee basis. The firm recovers compensation for clients and receives a percentage of settlements or judgments. Notable recoveries include over $250 million in data breach and privacy litigation, over $1 billion in total class recoveries, and individual case settlements such as $1.6 billion in Philips CPAP MDL, $92 million in TikTok privacy settlement, and $35 million in TMX Finance settlement.
2. Individual Legal Representation: The firm also handles individual plaintiff matters including disability legal clinic services, employment rights cases, and consumer protection matters, typically on contingency or standard legal fee arrangements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lynch Carpenter LLP is a national plaintiffs-side complex litigation law firm that represents individuals, workers, students, and small businesses in class actions, mass torts, and individual matters. The firm recovers compensation on a contingency-fee basis across practice areas including data breach and privacy, employment and wage-and-hour, consumer protection, financial fraud and lending abuse, higher education tuition refunds, antitrust, and Social Security disability claims. Headquartered in Pittsburgh with offices in Philadelphia, San Diego, and Los Angeles, the firm has recovered more than $1 billion in total class action outcomes, including over $250 million in data breach and privacy litigation, with notable settlements such as $1.6 billion in the Philips CPAP MDL and $92 million in the TikTok privacy litigation.

Product overview

Lynch Carpenter LLP is a national law firm offering legal services primarily in complex litigation and class action matters. The firm's services include Privacy & Data Breach Legal Services, Employment & Wage and Hour Legal Services, Consumer Protection Legal Services, Financial Fraud & Lending Practices Legal Services, Higher Education Refunds Legal Services, Antitrust Legal Services, and a Disability Legal Clinic. The firm also provides Class Action Litigation and Mass Arbitration Services. These practice areas represent the firm's core legal service offerings, each focused on representing plaintiffs (consumers, workers, students, and small businesses) against corporate misconduct and institutional wrongdoing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Disability Legal Clinic: A specialized practice area helping individuals navigate Social Security disability claims process

Products and services

• Privacy & Data Breach Legal Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $250 million recovered in data breach and privacy litigation alone
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Pomerantz LLP: Historic plaintiffs' firm with significant class action and consumer protection practice alongside its securities litigation core. Comparable as a long-standing plaintiffs' contingency-fee firm pursuing corporate accountability through MDL leadership.
• Weitz & Luxenberg PC: Large New York plaintiffs' firm with mass tort, consumer protection, and class action practices, including significant MDL participation. Comparable in plaintiffs-only mission and contingency model, with broader mass tort exposure.
• Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP: Largest U.S. plaintiffs' securities and class action firm, regularly serves as Lead Counsel in major data breach and consumer MDLs. Provides a useful benchmark for top-of-market plaintiff-class firm economics and MDL common-benefit fee outcomes.

Direct peers

• Zimmerman Reed LLP: National plaintiffs' complex litigation firm with active consumer protection, data privacy, and mass tort practices. Comparable in plaintiff-only contingency-fee model and national footprint serving class members in MDL proceedings.
• Berger Montague PC: Philadelphia-headquartered national class action firm with strong consumer protection, data privacy, and antitrust practices. Highly comparable in plaintiff-side class action model, MDL leadership profile, and contingency fee structure; frequently competes for lead counsel positions in the same MDLs.
• Keller Postman LLC: Plaintiff-side mass tort and class action firm where Lynch Carpenter partner Ethan Ames previously practiced, with overlapping expertise in mass arbitration, privacy, and consumer class actions. Most directly comparable on the mass arbitration growth lane that Lynch Carpenter is building out.
• Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC: Washington, D.C.-based plaintiffs' firm with dedicated Consumer Protection and Data Privacy practice groups, alongside employment and civil rights work. Directly comparable in plaintiffs-only contingency fee model and in serving in lead roles in privacy class actions.
• McCune Wright Arevalo LLP: Consumer class action plaintiffs' firm where Lynch Carpenter Los Angeles Managing Partner Eddie Jae Kim previously built his practice. Directly comparable in plaintiff consumer class actions and contingency fee model, with similar track record of multi-million-dollar verdicts.
• Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP: National plaintiffs' class action and mass tort firm with a prominent privacy and data breach practice alongside consumer protection and employment cases. Highly comparable in mission (representing plaintiffs against corporate defendants), MDL leadership profile, and contingency fee revenue model.
• Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint PC: Arizona-based consumer class action firm where Lynch Carpenter Managing Partner Todd Carpenter previously practiced before founding Carpenter Law Group. Directly comparable in consumer class action practice areas (false advertising, product liability) and contingency fee model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lynchcarpenterlawyers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lynch-carpenter-llp

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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