Wegman Hessler

What Wegman Hessler does

Wegman Hessler is a Cleveland, Ohio-based full-service business law firm founded in the early 1970s, serving closely held businesses, family enterprises, corporations, and individuals across Northeast Ohio for over 50 years. The firm operates as a traditional professional services partnership, billing on quote-based fee arrangements tied to matter complexity and attorney time, with no proprietary technology platform, API, or digital product surface. Its practice areas span Corporate and Business Law, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property, Trusts and Estates, Cybersecurity, Municipal Law, Employment and HR Law, Commercial Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory Compliance, White-Collar Criminal Defense, and a Fractional General Counsel (FGC) service that provides embedded corporate counsel as an alternative to in-house legal teams. The firm is led by Managing Partner Nathan E. Hessler and rebranded to Wegman Hessler Valore following its February 2023 integration with Valore & Gordillo.

Name

Wegman Hessler

Legal name

Wegman Hessler

Website

https://wegmanlaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Wegman Hessler is a Cleveland-based, full-service business law firm serving closely held businesses, family enterprises, corporations, and individuals across Northeast Ohio with corporate law, litigation, IP, estates, municipal law, and fractional general counsel services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (54111), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) & Securities Law (BPAHAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Family & Private Client (Trusts & Estates) Law (BPAHAAAK)

Keywords

• Business law services
• Corporate legal counsel
• Estate planning law
• Commercial litigation
• Intellectual property law

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services Fees: Professional legal services billed to clients including corporate law, litigation, estate planning, intellectual property, municipal law, cybersecurity, and employment law matters.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Wegman Hessler is a Cleveland-based law firm providing strategic legal counsel to closely held businesses, family enterprises, corporations, and individuals in Northeast Ohio. The firm offers full-service legal capabilities across corporate and business law, business litigation, intellectual property, trusts and estates, cybersecurity, municipal law, employment law, and mergers and acquisitions. It also provides fractional general counsel services as an alternative to in-house legal teams.

Product overview

Wegman Hessler is a full-service law firm offering legal services across multiple interconnected practice areas. The firm operates as a unified legal practice rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Core services include Corporate and Business Law, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property Law, Trusts and Estates, Cybersecurity, and Municipal Law. Additional specialized services include Fractional General Counsel, Business Succession Planning, Trust and Estate Administration, Probate Litigation, Employment and HR Law, Commercial Real Estate, International Transactions, White-Collar Criminal Defense, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Regulatory Compliance. The firm primarily serves closely held businesses, family enterprises, corporations, and individuals in Northeast Ohio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate and Business Law

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy StudiesminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 April 2025Wegman Hessler Valore sponsored the Federalist Society's Ohio Annual Chapters Conference on April 4, 2025. Litigation practice lead Angela Lavin and litigation partner Jay Carlson represented the firm at the event, which brought together legal scholars, practitioners, and members of the judiciary from across Ohio.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Benesch: Cleveland-based business law firm with similar corporate, litigation, M&A, and estates practice serving mid-market and family businesses in Northeast Ohio — comparable size, regional footprint, and client profile.
• Buckley King: Cleveland-based business and commercial law firm serving closely held businesses, family enterprises, and individuals with corporate, litigation, employment, and estate services — comparable mid-size regional competitor.
• Ulmer & Berne LLP: Cleveland-rooted full-service business law firm with corporate, litigation, IP, and estate planning practices targeting middle-market companies and closely held businesses — closely comparable in service mix and geography.
• Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP: Cleveland-based business law firm (formed via 2024 Walter Haverfield merger) serving closely held businesses and families with corporate, M&A, litigation, and estates practices — directly comparable in size, geography, and client mix.
• Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP: Cleveland-based full-service business law firm offering corporate, litigation, IP, and estate planning to closely held and family-owned businesses across Ohio — directly comparable target market and practice breadth.
• Frantz Ward LLP: Cleveland-based mid-size business law firm serving closely held companies and families with corporate, litigation, employment, and estate planning practices — closely comparable in size, geography, and client mix to Wegman Hessler.

Broad incumbents

• BakerHostetler: Cleveland-founded Am Law 100 national firm with deep business, litigation, IP, and estates practices serving mid-market to Fortune 500 clients — broader geographic and capability footprint than Wegman Hessler but overlapping client base in Northeast Ohio.
• Jones Day: Cleveland-founded global Am Law 10 firm with corporate, M&A, litigation, IP, and regulatory practices — competes with Wegman Hessler for sophisticated business clients in Northeast Ohio but at vastly larger scale and global reach.
• Squire Patton Boggs: Cleveland-founded global law firm with extensive corporate, M&A, litigation, and public policy practices — overlaps with Wegman Hessler in closely held business work but operates at significantly larger scale and broader geography.
• Thompson Hine LLP: Cleveland-based national business law firm with corporate, M&A, litigation, and estates practices serving mid-market to enterprise clients — broader geographic footprint than Wegman Hessler but directly overlapping in Northeast Ohio target market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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