Lewis & Roberts

What Lewis & Roberts does

Lewis & Roberts, PLLC is a private litigation law firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1997 by a group of accomplished trial attorneys from a large Raleigh firm. The firm operates across five practice areas: Business and Financial Litigation, Construction and Surety Law, General Civil Litigation, Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death, and Workers' Compensation Defense. Its client base spans individual plaintiffs with catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims, insurance carriers and self-insured employers, construction industry participants (owners, contractors, subcontractors, sureties, suppliers), and enterprise clients in shareholder, fiduciary, and merger disputes. The firm's litigation footprint is concentrated in North Carolina with demonstrated capability in federal and state courts nationwide, including Delaware Court of Chancery, Georgia Business Court, and California Superior Court.

The firm's core offering is legal representation in complex, high-stakes litigation rather than technology products. Notable case results include a $15 million settlement for an injured student, a $7.5 million settlement for a wrongful death case involving a defective nitrous oxide cylinder, a $2 million jury verdict, and other seven-figure outcomes. The only technology-enabled product is a set of online Workers' Compensation Calculators — Present Value, Life Expectancy, Average Weekly Wage, and Permanent Partial Disability — which functions as a client-facing utility rather than a core revenue product. The firm has no API, SDK, or AI/ML capabilities disclosed.

Lewis & Roberts operates on two primary revenue models. Contingent fee representation is used for plaintiff-side personal injury, wrongful death, business litigation, and whistleblower matters, where the firm advances litigation costs and earns a percentage of recovery with no fee if there is no recovery. Defense and corporate-side engagements — workers' compensation defense, construction law, and surety matters — are billed on hourly rates, with flexible arrangements including flat-fee, blended-fee, and contingency structures on appropriate matters. Marketing is anchored on professional reputation, peer referrals, and sustained Best Lawyers (30 consecutive years) and Super Lawyers (20+ consecutive years) recognition rather than an active outbound sales motion.

Name

Lewis & Roberts

Legal name

Lewis & Roberts, PLLC

Website

https://lewis-roberts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lewis & Roberts is a North Carolina-based litigation law firm founded in 1997, specializing in business litigation, personal injury, construction law, civil litigation, and workers' compensation defense for individuals, insurance carriers, employers, and businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Litigation Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Personal Injury & Insurance Defense (BPAHAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

Keywords

• Litigation law services
• Personal injury representation
• Workers compensation defense
• Construction surety law
• Business financial litigation

Headquarters

HQ city

Raleigh

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Contingent Fee Litigation: Lewis & Roberts represents clients on a contingent fee basis, meaning they are paid a percentage of any award, settlement, or verdict obtained. If no recovery is made, no attorney fee is owed. This makes litigation accessible for clients who cannot afford hourly rates that can exceed $500 per hour.
2. Hourly Fee Litigation: The firm charges competitive hourly rates for construction and surety law services, avoiding over-staffing files and providing initial and updated litigation estimates. Flexible fee arrangements including flat-fee, contingency fee, and blended fee services are offered on appropriate matters.
3. Workers' Compensation Defense: Representation of insurance carriers, self-insured employers, and adjusting companies in workers' compensation defense matters, billed on traditional legal service fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Lewis & Roberts is a North Carolina-based litigation law firm offering specialized legal representation across five practice areas: business and financial litigation, construction and surety law, general civil litigation, personal injury/medical malpractice/wrongful death, and workers' compensation defense. The firm represents catastrophically injured individuals on a contingent fee basis, defends insurance carriers and self-insured employers in workers' compensation matters, and handles complex business disputes including shareholder, merger, and securities litigation.

Product overview

Lewis & Roberts, PLLC is a North Carolina litigation law firm established in 1997, offering specialized legal services across five practice areas: Business & Financial Litigation (handling mergers, shareholder disputes, tax shelters, auditor negligence, and Delaware corporate litigation), Construction & Surety Law (covering contract disputes, mechanics' liens, and surety bonds), General Civil Litigation (including class actions, whistleblower cases, and nationwide litigation), Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death (with specialized Camp Lejeune water contamination litigation and defective tire cases), and Workers' Compensation Defense (for insurance carriers and employers). The firm also provides a digital Workers' Compensation Calculators tool on its website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Business & Financial Litigation Comprehensive litigation services covering mergers, derivative litigation, shareholder fraud, fiduciary matters, abusive tax shelters, auditor negligence, and Delaware corporate litigation for investors and business clients.
• Construction & Surety Law Legal representation for construction industry clients including contract drafting, dispute resolution, public contracting, mechanics' liens, performance and payment bonds, and surety claims. Serves owners, prime contractors, subcontractors, sureties, suppliers, and insurance carriers.
• General Civil Litigation Civil litigation services including appellate litigation, class actions, contingent fee litigation, legal malpractice, nationwide litigation, wage and hour claims, and whistleblower/qui tam litigation.
• Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice & Wrongful Death Representation for catastrophically injured accident victims and families including medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, premises liability, products liability, truck accidents, workplace injuries, and wrongful death claims. Offered on contingent fee basis with no fee unless recovery is obtained.
• Workers' Compensation Defense Defense representation for insurance carriers, self-insured employers, and adjusting companies in workers' compensation claims including injury defense, occupational disease, insurance coverage disputes, and employee fraud matters across North Carolina.
• Workers' Compensation Calculators Free online digital calculators for workers' compensation claims including Present Value Calculator, Life Expectancy Calculator, Average Weekly Compensation Calculator, and Permanent Partial Disability Calculator.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully resolved thousands of cases including multiple seven-figure settlements and verdicts
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

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 highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Fisher & Phillips: National labor and employment firm with a strong workers' compensation defense practice serving insurance carriers and employers — directly comparable to Lewis & Roberts' workers' comp defense group, though at much larger scale.
• Riddle & Brantley: North Carolina personal injury law firm taking on contingent fee cases against large corporations and insurers — directly comparable to Lewis & Roberts' personal injury, wrongful death, and contingent fee plaintiff practice.
• Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog: North Carolina-based litigation and insurance defense firm with comparable practice areas including workers' compensation defense, personal injury, and business litigation; directly competes for the same carrier and individual clients in the Raleigh/Charlotte markets.
• Conner Gwyn Schenck PLLC: North Carolina-based workers' compensation defense firm that competes head-to-head for the same insurance carrier and self-insured employer work as Lewis & Roberts' 13-attorney workers' comp group.
• Teague Campbell Dennis & Gorham: Raleigh-based litigation firm with a strong workers' compensation defense practice, insurance defense, and civil litigation — one of the most direct competitors to Lewis & Roberts' core workers' comp defense offering in North Carolina.

Regional players

• Smith Anderson: One of North Carolina's largest and most prominent firms with a significant litigation and business disputes practice; competes for high-end corporate litigation but with a much broader full-service portfolio than Lewis & Roberts' boutique model.
• Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein: Major North Carolina-headquartered firm with litigation, construction, and business dispute practices overlapping several of Lewis & Roberts' service lines, though operating at significantly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Jackson Lewis P.C. Major employment law firm with workplaces safety and workers' compensation practices representing insurance carriers and employers; a broad incumbent in the same client base and matter types as Lewis & Roberts' defense work.
• Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart: Largest U.S. labor and employment law firm with extensive workers' compensation defense capabilities; represents many of the same insurance carriers and self-insured employers as Lewis & Roberts across the Southeast.
• Womble Bond Dickinson: Large full-service firm with deep North Carolina roots and a substantial litigation practice; competes for complex business litigation and construction law mandates across the Southeast and beyond.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LewisandRoberts
• Facebookfacebook.com/LewisandRobertsPLLC

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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