Jacoby & Meyers

What Jacoby & Meyers does

Jacoby & Meyers is a full-service consumer law firm founded in 1972 in Van Nuys, California by Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers with the stated mission of making legal representation accessible to working-class Americans who could neither afford traditional attorneys nor qualify for legal aid. The firm operates across approximately 30 office locations spanning California (11), New York (11), New Jersey (2), Connecticut, Florida, Alabama, and Washington DC, structured as a network of regional independent law offices under a unified brand. It offers more than 20 practice areas spanning personal injury (auto accidents, trucking, motorcycle, medical malpractice, mesothelioma), immigration, criminal defense, family law, estate planning, workers' compensation, Social Security disability, employment law, nursing home neglect, consumer fraud, bad faith insurance, and commercial litigation, with dedicated Spanish-language services for Hispanic clients.

The firm's core technology stack is conventional for a professional services firm — a corporate website (jacobymeyers.com), toll-free phone intake across at least five numbers, and physical office delivery — with no proprietary software, APIs, or AI/ML systems disclosed. Distribution is built around physical offices and direct-response marketing (free case evaluations, in-home/hospital visits, contingency fee structure where clients pay nothing unless recovery is obtained). Revenue mechanics are based on contingency fee arrangements on plaintiff-side matters, particularly personal injury, where the firm takes a percentage of successful settlements or verdicts; non-contingency matters (estate planning, some family law) generate hourly or flat-fee revenue not detailed in available sources.

The firm is organized as Jacoby & Meyers LLC (Delaware), operates without disclosed external investment or institutional ownership, and reports 51-100 employees on its current footprint. It self-describes as "America's largest full-service consumer law firm" and claims to have served millions of clients and won tens of thousands of cases over its 50-year history. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, there are no funding rounds on record, and no M&A, partnership, or leadership transition activity is documented in the available sources beyond the historical expansion of regional offices and a current VP of Human Resources.

Name

Jacoby & Meyers

Legal name

Jacoby & Meyers LLC

Website

https://jacobymeyers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Jacoby & Meyers is a privately held, full-service U.S. consumer law firm founded in 1972, operating roughly 30 offices across seven states and offering 20-plus practice areas — primarily personal injury on contingency fee — to individual consumers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

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

Immigration Law (BPAHAAAL), Family & Private Client (Trusts & Estates) Law (BPAHAAAK)

Keywords

• Consumer legal services
• Personal injury law
• Immigration legal services
• Family law services
• Criminal defense law

Headquarters

HQ city

Dothan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices30 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Contingency Fee Legal Services: The firm operates on a contingency fee basis for personal injury and similar claims. Jacoby & Meyers will only charge a legal fee if they are successful in recovering money for their clients' claims. This removes financial barrier for clients seeking legal representation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Jacoby & Meyers is a full-service consumer law firm providing legal representation to individuals across more than 20 practice areas including personal injury, immigration, criminal defense, family law, estate planning, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, and mesothelioma litigation. Services are delivered through a nationwide network of independent law offices with free initial consultations and contingency fee arrangements on qualifying cases.

Product overview

Jacoby & Meyers is a full-service consumer law firm providing comprehensive legal representation across multiple practice areas. The firm operates as a single integrated legal services platform offering over 20 distinct practice areas including personal injury, immigration, family law, criminal defense, estate planning, employment law, and specialized litigation. The practice areas are delivered through a network of independent law offices throughout the United States, with regional offices in Alabama, Florida, New York, Southern California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC. Services range from individual case representation to class action litigation, and include both traditional litigation and alternative dispute resolution through mediation services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Personal Injury Law Legal representation for individuals physically or psychologically injured due to the negligence or wrongdoing of another party, covering motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, and wrongful death cases.
• Motor Vehicle Accidents

Quantifiable outcome

• Tens of thousands of cases won

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Cellino & Barnes (now Cellino Law): Cellino is a high-volume consumer PI firm historically built on heavy TV advertising and a contingency model, with offices across New York and other states — directly comparable to Jacoby & Meyers' NY-centric PI practice and brand-led consumer acquisition.
• Morgan & Morgan: Morgan & Morgan is the largest U.S. consumer personal injury law firm and operates with the same contingency-fee, mass-market, multi-state office-rollout playbook as Jacoby & Meyers. Both target working-class consumers via TV advertising and offer broad consumer practice areas.
• Weitz & Luxenberg: Weitz & Luxenberg is a leading mass-tort and PI firm with national advertising reach in asbestos, defective drugs, and consumer injury — highly comparable to Jacoby & Meyers' dangerous-drugs and asbestos practices.
• The Levin Firm: The Levin Firm operates a national mass-tort and consumer-injury practice (mesothelioma, dangerous drugs, PI), directly overlapping with Jacoby & Meyers' product liability and PI lines under the contingency-fee model.
• Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Lawyers: Bisnar Chase is a California-based full-service consumer PI firm with a contingency-fee model, heavy advertising, and a track record of high-stakes PI verdicts — closely mirroring the Jacoby & Meyers California operation.
• Napoli Shkolnik: Napoli Shkolnik is a national consumer law firm specializing in mass torts, PI, and consumer fraud class actions, operating on contingency with TV advertising — directly comparable to Jacoby & Meyers' mass-tort and consumer-fraud offerings.
• Wilshire Law Firm: Wilshire Law Firm is a California-based full-service consumer plaintiff firm covering PI, employment, and class actions under contingency fee — directly comparable to Jacoby & Meyers' California full-service consumer offering.

Emerging players

• LegalZoom: LegalZoom is a tech-enabled legal services platform serving individual consumers with flat-fee document, family, and estate services — a partial substitute and emerging competitive threat to Jacoby & Meyers' lower-complexity practice areas.
• Belleville Law (and similar contingency immigration/consumer firms): Belleville Law is a smaller multi-office consumer and immigration firm offering free consultations and contingency pricing in select states — comparable to Jacoby & Meyers on practice-area mix and acquisition model, but at a meaningfully smaller scale.

Regional players

• Allen & Fultz (and similar mid-size multi-state PI firms): Allen & Fultz operates as a regional consumer PI and immigration firm using a multi-office, contingency-fee model in select states — comparable in structure and target segment to Jacoby & Meyers' Southeast and Mid-Atlantic footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jacoby-meyers
• Facebookfacebook.com/JacobyMeyers

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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