Wild, Carter & Tipton

What Wild, Carter & Tipton does

Wild, Carter & Tipton (WCT) is a privately held professional law corporation headquartered at 246 West Shaw Avenue in Fresno, California, founded in 1893 by Orlen Lee Everts (1869–1935), David S. Ewing (1866–1929), and Mount K. Wild. The firm, self-styled as the "Oldest Law Firm in Fresno," employs 51–100 people and serves individuals, agribusinesses, corporations, and partnerships across California's Central Valley. Its practice spans eleven areas: Agricultural Law; Business and Commercial Law; Civil Litigation; Construction; Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships; Employment Law; Estate Planning and Probate; Family Law; Real Estate Law; Tax Law; and Trademark and Copyright Law. Practitioners are admitted across California state courts, multiple U.S. District Courts, Texas (Agrall, 2004), the Ninth Circuit, U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court, giving the firm broad jurisdictional reach.

Service delivery is built on a traditional, sales-led, direct-engagement model. New business is generated by the firm's 125+ year local reputation, referrals, and a professional website (wctlaw.com), supported by direct phone ((559) 224-2131) and email ([email protected]) inquiry channels. Roughly ten named attorneys — several of whom are shareholders holding LLM degrees in Taxation and bar admissions across multiple jurisdictions — lead client engagements. Notable individual credentials include G. Dana French's AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell peer rating (the highest available) and Patrick J. Gorman's Super Lawyers distinction each year from 2015 onward. Revenue is generated through engagement-based professional services fees; pricing is determined by case complexity, practice area, and client requirements, and no pricing is publicly disclosed.

WCT operates as a privately held professional law corporation without institutional investors, venture capital, or private-equity backing. Ownership sits with its attorneys as shareholders, consistent with its multi-generational tenure (the Everts and Wild lineages continued through the early- and mid-20th century). There is no disclosed technology platform, software product, mobile application, or AI/automation capability underlying service delivery; the practice operates as a conventional professional services firm. No revenue, funding history, M&A activity, partnerships, or alliance data is publicly available in the source material.

Name

Wild, Carter & Tipton

Legal name

Wild, Carter & Tipton, A Professional Law Corporation

Website

https://wctlaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1893

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Wild, Carter & Tipton is a privately held, full-service Fresno, California law firm founded in 1893, serving Central Valley individuals, agribusinesses, and businesses across eleven practice areas including agricultural, business, litigation, tax, employment, and estate planning law.

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

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Family & Private Client (Trusts & Estates) Law (BPAHAAAK), Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) & Securities Law (BPAHAAAI)

Keywords

• Legal services
• Agricultural law
• Civil litigation
• Estate planning
• Business law

Headquarters

HQ city

Fresno

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services Fees: Professional legal services billed to clients for various practice areas including agricultural law, business law, civil litigation, construction, employment law, estate planning, family law, real estate law, tax law, and trademark/copyright law. Services include both transactional work and litigation representation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Wild, Carter & Tipton is a professional law corporation that provides legal representation and counsel across eleven practice areas: Agricultural Law, Business and Commercial Law, Civil Litigation, Construction Law, Corporations/LLCs/Partnerships, Employment Law, Estate Planning and Probate, Family Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and Trademark and Copyright Law. The firm serves both businesses and individuals in Fresno and the Central Valley region through transactional and litigation legal services.

Product overview

Wild, Carter & Tipton is a full-service professional law corporation offering comprehensive legal services through its core practice areas. The firm provides eleven distinct legal service offerings: Agricultural Law, Business and Commercial Law, Civil Litigation, Construction Law, Corporations/LLCs/Partnerships, Employment Law, Estate Planning & Probate, Family Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and Trademark & Copyright Law. These services work together to serve individual and business clients throughout Fresno and the Central Valley region, with an emphasis on providing specialized expertise across multiple interconnected legal domains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Agricultural Law Services Legal representation for agribusinesses, farmers, packers, and producers covering agribusiness, cooperatives, crop damage, livestock and dairy, packing and processing, vineyards and wineries, and farm and grazing leases.
• Business and Commercial Law Services Comprehensive business legal services including starting a business, corporate governance, business contracts, leases, business litigation, small business formation, business succession planning, securities law, employment issues, trademark registration, and liquor license issues.
• Civil Litigation Services Trial representation in civil court proceedings including commercial and business litigation, property disputes, wrongful foreclosure, condemnation, employer/employee disputes, high speed rail litigation, trademark and copyright disputes, fraud, injury claims, and wrongful death cases.
• Construction Law Services Legal representation for owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, and engineers in commercial and residential construction, private and public works projects, including trials, arbitrations, and mediations.
• Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships Services Business entity formation and related services for close corporations, C corporations, S corporations, professional corporations, manager-managed LLCs, member-managed LLCs, general partnerships, and limited partnerships.
• Employment Law Services Employment law representation under Federal and California law including wage and hour class action, labor board representation, wrongful termination, hostile work environment, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA, whistleblower cases, and severance agreement negotiations.
• Estate Planning and Probate Services Estate planning services including wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney, and probate and estate administration including document and asset division, will filing, probate court reporting, and creditor payments.
• Family Law Services Family law representation including prenuptial agreements, divorce and legal separation, child custody and visitation, child support, spousal support, marital property valuation, property division, business valuation, and adoptions.
• Real Estate Law Services Real estate legal services including contract drafting assistance, property tax appeals, lease assistance, ownership litigation, unlawful detainer and evictions, and partition and quiet title actions.
• Tax Law Services Tax law representation including personal and business tax planning, real estate property tax appeals, tax litigation, international tax matters, and estate planning.
• Trademark and Copyright Law Services Intellectual property legal services including trademark and service mark registration, related litigation, copyright registration for creative works, and trade secret protection through confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Baker Manock & Jensen PC: Fresno-based full-service law firm offering business, real estate, employment, and litigation services. Competes head-to-head for Central Valley middle-market and individual clients across overlapping practice areas.
• Dowling Aaron Incorporated: Fresno-based multi-practice law firm with established agribusiness, real estate, and business law practices. A direct competitor serving the same San Joaquin Valley client base.
• Barsamian & Moody: Central Valley/Central California law firm with a strong agricultural and business litigation practice. Directly comparable in serving agribusiness clients in the San Joaquin Valley.
• McCormick Barstow LLP: Fresno-based full-service law firm with similar multi-practice coverage including business, litigation, real estate, and agriculture-related work. Direct competitor for the same Central Valley business and individual client base.
• Cole Fisher Law Firm: Smaller Fresno-based law firm offering business, real estate, and agricultural legal services. Competes for similar Central Valley small-business and agricultural clients.
• Lang Richert & Patch PC: Fresno-based law firm with strong agricultural, business, and water law practices serving Central Valley agribusiness clients. Direct competitor in the firm's core agricultural law niche.

Broad incumbents

• Peckar & Abramson PC: National construction law firm that competes for complex construction matters that overlap with WCT's construction practice, particularly on larger commercial and public works projects.
• Fisher & Phillips LLP: National labor and employment law firm with California offices. Competes for employer-side employment matters that overlap with WCT's employment law practice.
• Jackson Lewis P.C. National employment-law-focused firm with offices across California. Competes directly for employment law matters in the Central Valley while offering broader geographic coverage.
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP: National full-service firm with a significant water, agricultural, and real estate practice competing for the same California agribusiness and natural resources clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Fresno_Lawyers

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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