Haight Brown & Bonesteel

What Haight Brown & Bonesteel does

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP is a privately held California civil defense litigation law firm founded in 1937/1938 and structured as a limited liability partnership. The firm provides legal representation across 17 practice areas including workers' compensation defense, transportation law, employment and labor, construction law, product liability, general liability, insurance coverage, appellate practice, and public entity defense. It serves enterprise and institutional clients—primarily employers (self-insured and non-self-insured), insurance carriers, public entities, and Fortune 500 companies—through 75+ lawyers distributed across five California offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, San Diego, Sacramento, and Walnut Creek. Named clients include Chevron, Walgreens, Pool Corp., Kiewit, Sentry Insurance, Hudson Insurance, Safety National, Continental Casualty, HDI-Gerling, and various K-12 and community college districts.

The firm generates revenue through traditional hourly billing on legal services, with attorneys subject to quarterly billable hour requirements and eligible for bonuses upon exceeding targets. Its sole technology product is the iComp Calculator, an iOS application launched in November 2013 that provides California workers' compensation practitioners with deterministic calculators for temporary disability rates, permanent disability compensation, life pension rates, and date arithmetic. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales driven by reputation, referrals, industry relationships, and lateral attorney hiring. The firm is independently owned by its partners with no disclosed institutional investors or parent company, and maintains ALFA International network membership for multi-jurisdictional referral capability.

Name

Haight Brown & Bonesteel

Legal name

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Website

https://hbblaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1938

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP is a California civil defense litigation law firm with 75+ lawyers across five offices, serving employers, insurance carriers, and public entities in workers' compensation, transportation, employment, and general liability matters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (54111), Offices of Lawyers (541110), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Litigation & Dispute Resolution (BPAHAAAB), Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

Keywords

• Civil litigation defense
• Workers compensation law
• Employment law services
• Insurance defense law
• Transportation law defense

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Hourly Billing: Law firm generates revenue through hourly billing for legal services. Attorneys are required to meet quarterly billable hour requirements and receive bonuses for exceeding targets.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP is a California civil defense litigation law firm delivering legal representation across 17 practice areas, including workers' compensation defense, transportation law, employment and labor, construction law, product liability, general liability, professional liability, appellate practice, risk management and insurance law, real estate, environmental and toxic tort, and public-sector representation. The firm serves employers, insurance carriers, self-insured entities, and public entities through five California offices staffed by 75+ lawyers, and has developed the iComp Calculator iOS application as a niche tool for workers' compensation practitioners.

Product overview

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP is a civil defense litigation law firm offering legal services across 17 distinct practice areas including Transportation Law, Workers' Compensation, Employment & Labor, Construction Law, Product Liability, and General Liability. The firm operates 5 California offices (Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Sacramento, Bay Area) with 75+ lawyers. The sole technology product is the iComp Calculator iOS application, which provides California workers' compensation practitioners with calculators for temporary disability rates, permanent disability compensation, life pension rates, and date calculations. The legal services operate as a unified full-service civil defense offering rather than a modular software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Workers' Compensation Defense

Quantifiable outcome

• Defense verdicts in high-profile cases including successful defense of Manny Pacquiao in breach of contract claim

Named customers12 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

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ALFA InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerALFA International is a global network of law firms. Haight Brown & Bonesteel is a member firm, providing access to international legal resources, referrals, and collaboration on multi-jurisdictional client matters.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP: California-based civil litigation and insurance defense firm with comparable practice mix including transportation, construction, employment, and general liability defense for insurance carriers and self-insureds.
• Klinedinst PC: California-headquartered law firm with a civil defense and insurance practice that overlaps HBB's employment, transportation, and general liability work, serving similar insurance carrier and employer clients primarily in California.

Direct peers

• Selman Breitman LLP: California-based civil defense firm with overlapping practices in insurance coverage, general liability, transportation, and employment defense. Comparable in scale and client mix.
• Tyson & Mendes LLP: California-headquartered civil defense and insurance defense firm with strong presence in transportation, general liability, and insurance coverage - directly comparable to HBB's core practices.
• Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP: Insurance defense and civil litigation firm with significant California operations. Closely comparable in insurance carrier client base and defense litigation practice areas including transportation and general liability.
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP: National civil defense litigation firm with a very large California presence. Directly competes with HBB across transportation, general liability, employment, and insurance defense practices with overlapping insurance carrier and Fortune 500 clients.
• Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP: Founded in California and now one of the largest civil defense firms in the U.S. Closely comparable in practice mix - transportation, workers' comp, employment, construction, and insurance defense - serving similar employer and insurance carrier clients.
• Manning & Kass Ellrod Ramirez Trester LLP: California-founded civil defense litigation firm with a comparable insurance defense, transportation, employment, and general liability practice mix serving insurance carriers and self-insured employers.

Broad incumbents

• Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP: Large national law firm with a substantial insurance defense and civil litigation practice across the U.S. Offers broader geographic reach than HBB and competes for similar insurance carrier panel work, though it is a much larger general-practice platform.
• Goldberg Segalla LLP: National civil defense and insurance coverage firm with a meaningful California presence. Competes with HBB for insurance carrier panel work across transportation, general liability, and employment defense practices.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/haight-brown-&-bonesteel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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