DeVetter Law Firm

What DeVetter Law Firm does

DeVetter Law Firm is a Georgia-based boutique law practice founded in October 2020 by Nancy DeVetter in Savannah, operating as DeVetter Law Firm LLC. The firm is narrowly specialized in two practice areas: criminal record expungement (called 'record restriction' and 'sealing' in Georgia), offered statewide, and estate planning/probate litigation, offered in southeast Georgia. Services span First Offender Act petitions, sealing/restriction of misdemeanor and eligible felony records, Board of Pardons and Paroles representation for civil and gun rights restoration, wills/trusts/powers of attorney, and probate court petitions including letters of administration, guardianship, and year's support. The underlying delivery model is professional services performed by approximately 8 team members (one managing attorney, one of-counsel estate planning attorney, senior paralegal, expungement paralegal, legal document specialist, practice manager, receptionist, and a college intern).

The business is overwhelmingly people- and process-driven rather than technology-driven. The firm uses electronic court filing and case management technology (no proprietary tech, no app, no API) and emphasizes speed, accuracy, and accessibility of legal counsel in a domain — Georgia expungement law — that became significantly more favorable after January 1, 2021, when Georgia's expanded expungement statute took effect. The firm has reportedly restricted access to 'hundreds' of criminal records and helped pass a Tybee Island marijuana decriminalization ordinance with expungement provisions in September 2021.

Revenue mechanics are standard professional services: a free 15-minute consultation acts as the funnel, after which work is quoted case-by-case and billed pay-as-you-go. Go-to-market is hybrid — direct sales via phone/online consultation booking, paired with a community-led motion anchored on monthly expungement clinics held every 2nd Monday from 5PM-7PM in partnership with DEEP Center, ARCS Task Force, and Filling The Gap, Inc. Distribution is regional to statewide, with earned media coverage in Savannah Morning News, WSAV, WTOC-TV, Newsweek, FOX28, and Savannah Tribute and an educational blog of 20+ articles supporting organic SEO. The firm has no outside institutional investment; the sole capital event on record is a $5,000 Backing Small Businesses grant in June 2023.

Name

DeVetter Law Firm

Legal name

DeVetter Law Firm LLC

Website

https://devetterlaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DeVetter Law Firm is a Savannah, Georgia boutique law practice founded in 2020 that specializes statewide in criminal record expungement and in southeast Georgia in estate planning and probate, serving justice-impacted individuals and Georgia families through direct consultations and monthly community expungement clinics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Trusts, Estates, and Agency Accounts (52592), Document Preparation Services (56141)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Estate Administration & Probate Services (FSAAANAE)

Keywords

• Criminal record expungement
• Estate planning services
• Probate litigation
• Record restriction law
• Legal advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Savannah

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Criminal Record Expungement: Legal representation services for criminal record restriction (expungement), sealing court records, and pardon applications. Services include reviewing GCIC reports, determining eligibility, and assisting with form completion. Fee-based professional services.
2. Estate Planning Services: Estate planning services including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and planning for special circumstances. Probate litigation services including petitions for letters of administration, guardianship/conservatorship, year's support, and probate of wills.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

DeVetter Law Firm is a Georgia-based legal practice that clears criminal records through expungement, record restriction, sealing, First Offender Act petitions, early probation termination, and pardon applications. It also provides estate planning (wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives) and probate litigation services (letters of administration, guardianship, year's support, probate of wills) for individuals and families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Criminal Record Expungement (Record Restriction)

Quantifiable outcome

• Hundreds of criminal records restricted and sealed
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• DEEP CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partner for monthly expungement clinics. DEEP Center provides venue and collaborative support for justice-impacted individuals seeking criminal record expungement services.
• ARCS Task ForcecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partner for monthly expungement clinics. ARCS Task Force collaborates with the firm to provide pathways to brighter futures for justice-impacted individuals.
• Filling The Gap, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity partner for monthly expungement clinics. Filling The Gap partners with the firm to offer free legal assistance and expungement services to those in need.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Avvo: Online legal directory and Q&A platform connecting consumers with attorneys across practice areas including criminal record and estate planning. Comparable as a consumer-acquisition channel competing for the same Georgia expungement and estate-planning client demand.
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: National civil-rights organization running record-clearing initiatives for justice-impacted communities. Comparable in mission and target population to DeVetter's expungement clinics, though operating nationally and as a non-profit rather than a private firm.
• Clean Slate Initiative: National coalition working to expand automatic expungement and record-clearing access. Comparable as a stakeholder shaping the same Georgia expungement policy environment that drives DeVetter's demand pipeline.

Broad incumbents

• LegalZoom: Large online legal services platform offering wills, trusts, and other consumer legal documents. Comparable to DeVetter's estate-planning practice in target customer (everyday U.S. consumers) and product (basic wills/trusts), though LegalZoom is a self-service software model rather than a law firm.
• Atlanta Legal Aid Society: Large Georgia legal-aid organization and former employer of the firm's founder. Comparable in serving low-income and justice-impacted Georgians across record restriction, family, consumer, and public-benefits law, though broader in scope than DeVetter's niche.

Emerging players

• SoloSuit: Tech-enabled consumer legal platform focused on debt, record clearing, and citation response. Comparable as a digitally delivered record-clearing service competing for similar consumer clients, though SoloSuit emphasizes self-service software rather than full attorney representation.

Regional players

• Savannah Estate Planning Attorneys (Coastal Georgia peer solo/small firms): Other solo and small estate-planning/probate practices serving southeast Georgia. Direct competitors for the firm's higher-margin probate and estate-planning work in the Savannah–Tybee Island market.

Direct peers

• Georgia Legal Services Program: Statewide Georgia legal-aid organization where the firm's founder previously led the Record Restriction and Re-Entry Project. Directly comparable as an expungement service provider in Georgia, but on the free/legal-aid side rather than private-pay.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/devetter-law-firm

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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