Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC

What Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC does

Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC (operating as Hornstine Law, LLC in Pennsylvania and Hornstine & Vanderslice, LLC in New Jersey) is a privately-held law firm providing direct legal services to individuals and companies across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, the firm employs 1-10 staff with six named attorneys: Louis F. Hornstine (a retired Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey), Blair Leah Hornstine, Buneka J. Islam, John A. Richert, Patrick D. Quarles, and Richard L. Vanderslice. The firm operates from offices in Bensalem, PA (headquarters), Philadelphia, PA, Clearwater, FL, and additional New Jersey locations in Wildwood and Marlton.

The firm's practice is structured around ten core service areas: Ethics Lawyer / Character & Fitness Defense (a flagship niche), Commercial and Complex Civil Litigation, Criminal Defense, Education Law (including special education/IEP), Family Law, Estate Planning and Probate, Personal Injury, Traffic Court, and Business/Medical Licensing Defense before the Pennsylvania BPOA (covering 29 regulated professions). The BPOA licensing practice is a distinct adjacency to the firm's core attorney-discipline work and broadens the addressable licensee market. The technology base is a standard legal-services stack with no proprietary platform, API, or automation layer.

The business model is professional-services hourly billing with a free initial consultation and evening/weekend availability. Customer segments are entirely persona-driven (individuals and families) and fragmented across consumer legal needs — there are no enterprise or institutional clients. Geographic reach is regional/multi-state (PA, NJ, NY, FL), and marketing is conducted through an informational website, an active blog on character-and-fitness and ethics topics, and a branded Twitter presence (@PA_Attorneys). The firm carries no disclosed funding, no M&A activity, and operates with a flat multi-entity legal structure shaped by New Jersey retired-judge practice guidelines.

Name

Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC

Legal name

Hornstine Law, LLC

Website

https://hornstine.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC is a privately-held, sub-10-attorney law firm operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. It provides direct legal services to individuals across ethics/character & fitness defense, criminal, family, education, estate, personal injury, and professional licensing matters.

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

Family & Private Client (Trusts & Estates) Law (BPAHAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Estate Planning & Trust Structuring Advisory (FSAEAKAC)

Keywords

• Legal services
• Criminal defense
• Family law
• Estate planning
• Personal injury

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Hourly Billing: Standard hourly billing for legal services with competitive hourly rates. Free initial consultation offered.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC is a multi-practice law firm providing legal representation to individuals and companies across ethics/character & fitness defense, criminal defense, family law, education law (including special education), estate planning and probate, personal injury, commercial and complex civil litigation, traffic/municipal court matters, and professional licensing defense before the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. The firm serves clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida through offices in Bensalem, Philadelphia, Marlton, Wildwood, and Clearwater, offering free initial consultations with evening and weekend meetings available.

Product overview

Hornstine Law, LLC is a law firm operating as Hornstine, Wertheimer and Pelloni, LLC, offering legal services through multiple practice areas. The firm provides a unified legal services offering across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida, with offices in Bensalem, PA, Clearwater, FL, and New Jersey locations. The practice areas include Ethics Lawyer/Character & Fitness Defense, Commercial Litigation, Complex Civil Litigation, Criminal Offenses, Education Law, Family Law, Estate Planning and Probate, Personal Injuries, Traffic Court, and Business/Medical Licensing Defense. These services are offered as distinct practice groups under the unified Hornstine Law brand rather than as separate modular products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Free initial consultation for all clients

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Fox Rothschild: Multi-office PA/NJ/NJ/FL full-service firm; overlaps with Hornstine on estate planning, family law, education law and commercial litigation but operates at materially larger scale.
• Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin: Large Pennsylvania-based defense firm with significant criminal defense, PI and commercial litigation practices; competes with Hornstine for regional litigation matters at much greater scale.
• Saul Ewing: Regional PA-based full-service firm with education law and family-related practices; a broader incumbent competing for similar mid-market clients across the Philadelphia corridor.
• Cozen O'Connor: Large Philadelphia-headquartered full-service law firm; competes for commercial litigation, criminal defense referrals and Pennsylvania-based corporate matters that overlap with Hornstine's practice areas at the larger end of the market.

Others

• Martindale-Hubbell: Long-standing legal directory and rating platform that influences consumer attorney selection; a marketing-channel peer rather than a direct practice competitor but relevant to how Hornstine is discovered online.
• LegalMatch: Online legal services marketplace that connects consumer clients with attorneys across practice areas including family, criminal and estate; an indirect channel competitor that affects how small firms like Hornstine source consumer leads.

Direct peers

• Stark & Stark: Multi-practice regional law firm based in Lawrenceville, NJ with comparable practice breadth across personal injury, family, estate and commercial matters; similar size and PA/NJ geographic overlap make it the closest structural peer.
• Cordell & Cordell: National family law firm with a strong presence in PA/NJ; directly comparable on the family law, divorce and custody work that is one of Hornstine's core consumer-facing practices.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/PA_Attorneys
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hornstine-wertheimer-and-pelloni-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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