Slater & Associates

What Slater & Associates does

Slater & Associates APC is a privately held boutique law firm founded in 2016 by Charles C. Slater and headquartered at 1111 W. Town and Country Road, Suite 30, Orange, California. Operating as a California professional corporation, the firm employs seven attorneys (one Partner, one Managing Associate Attorney, and five Associate Attorneys) supported by paralegals, legal assistants, hearing representatives, and administrative staff. The firm was established after Slater's 29+ years at large, high-volume practices, with the explicit intent of avoiding the overhead and inefficiencies of big-firm models in favor of a responsive, customized service model for California businesses and select individuals.

Name

Slater & Associates

Legal name

Slater & Associates APC

Website

https://slateraplc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAAAM

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Legal Services

SECONDARYBPAHAAAD

Employment & Labor Law

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Legal Services

Keywords

• Workers compensation defense
• Employment law services
• Civil litigation defense
• Business dispute counsel
• Wrongful termination defense

Headquarters

HQ city

Orange

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, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services: Professional legal services billed hourly or through contingency arrangements depending on practice area. Services include workers' compensation defense, employment law, civil litigation, and business disputes. Free consultations offered to prospective clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Slater & Associates APC is a boutique California law firm that provides defense-side legal representation to employers and select individuals, with its core practice focused on workers' compensation defense for insurance companies, self-insured employers, and public agencies. It also handles employment law matters (including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage, and FMLA claims), civil litigation, business disputes, and runs a dedicated Lien Defense Unit, with appellate representation before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court.

Product overview

Slater & Associates APC is a boutique law firm that operates as a unified legal services platform offering four core practice areas: Workers' Compensation Defense (their primary focus), Employment Law, Civil Litigation, and Business Disputes. These core services are supported by specialized sub-practices including Workers' Compensation Appeals, employee and employer representation tracks, a Lien Defense Unit, and Airport Fire Victims legal services. The firm's Lawyer'd Up! brand unifies their client-facing representation services. The practice operates on a one-firm model where attorneys collaborate across matters, with a Lien Defense Unit providing dedicated lien-related services and specialized sub-practices addressing specific client needs within each core area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Workers' Compensation Defense

Quantifiable outcome

• Thousands of cases resolved successfully since establishment in 2016

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Singleton Schreiber, LLPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Slater & Associates APC has partnered with Singleton Schreiber, LLP to pursue legal action against the County of Orange on behalf of Airport Fire victims. This collaboration combines the firms' resources to represent fire victims in seeking damages from the County of Orange for starting the fire.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP: California-based employment-law boutique serving employers on FEHA, wage-and-hour, wrongful termination, and harassment defense. Comparable boutique scale and employer-side California employment defense focus to Slater & Associates.
• Mullen & Filippi LLP: California-focused workers' compensation defense firm serving employers, insurers, and third-party administrators. Comparable boutique model with overlapping Lien Defense Unit-style specialist services and California-licensed attorney bench.
• Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi LLP: California-based boutique exclusively focused on workers' compensation defense for employers, insurers, and self-insureds. Most directly comparable boutique to Slater & Associates given matching core practice, similar California footprint, and shared insurance-carrier client base.
• Hanna, Brophy, MacLean, McAleer & Jensen LLP: Long-standing California workers' compensation defense boutique serving carriers, self-insureds, and public agencies. Directly comparable by client type (insurance carriers, public agencies) and exclusive focus on WC defense representation.

Broad incumbents

• Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC: One of the largest U.S. employment-law boutiques with full California offices. Overlaps directly with Slater & Associates on employer-side employment litigation, FEHA defense, and workers' comp-adjacent wage-and-hour work at materially greater scale.
• Fisher & Phillips LLP: National labor and employment boutique with major California presence. Directly comparable as a dedicated employment-law defense firm serving employers, but with significantly broader geographic reach and larger headcount than Slater & Associates.
• Jackson Lewis P.C. National employment-law boutique with California offices. Closely comparable employer-defense platform covering discrimination, wage-and-hour, wrongful termination, and class-action litigation that Slater & Associates also pursues.
• Littler Mendelson P.C. Largest labor and employment law firm worldwide, with significant California operations. Overlapping employer-defense franchise spanning employment litigation, workplace investigations, and HR compliance matters core to Slater's practice.
• Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP: California-founded, nationally expanded firm with dedicated employment and workers' compensation defense groups. Comparable employer-side defense model across Slater's core practice areas, with broader geographic and practice diversity.
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP: California-headquartered full-service firm with strong employment, workers' comp, and civil litigation practices. Overlaps on Slater's defense-side civil litigation, business disputes, and wrongful termination defense work at vastly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/slaterandassoc
• Facebookfacebook.com/slaterandassociates
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/charles-slater-10b141b
• Instagraminstagram.com/slaterapc

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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