Jeff Lewis Law

What Jeff Lewis Law does

Jeff Lewis Law, APC is a California Professional Corporation and boutique litigation firm founded by Jeff Lewis in 1996 and headquartered at 827 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 209, Rolling Hills Estates, California. The firm concentrates on First Amendment and anti-SLAPP defense, defamation (libel and slander), appellate law, civil litigation, expert testimony, and California Brown Act (open meeting law) matters, serving individuals, small business owners, journalists, podcasters, and occasionally enterprise defendants in matters throughout California state and federal courts. Its primary products and services are five practice lines — First Amendment & Anti-SLAPP Defense, Appellate Law Services, Expert Testimony, Civil Litigation, and Brown Act Advisory & Litigation — with no proprietary technology platforms or software products underlying the work.

The business model is a traditional professional services model: legal representation is billed at an undisclosed hourly rate with monthly invoicing, and the firm does not accept contingency or pro bono work. Revenue mechanics therefore depend on hourly utilization and rate realization rather than recurring subscriptions or volume-based pricing. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, combining referrals, organic search, the California Appellate Law Podcast (co-hosted with appellate specialist Tim Kowal), a content blog, and earned media placements across TMZ, the Los Angeles Times, Court TV, Forbes, and other outlets. Initial client engagement occurs via phone consultations at 310-935-4001 or online scheduling through Calendly.

The team is small — six people: founder Jeff Lewis (a Certified Appellate Law Specialist, one of approximately 350 in California out of 200,000+ licensed lawyers,), associate attorneys Kyla Dayton and Tim Cotter, senior paralegal Jason Ebbens, paralegal Jammie Bell, and administrative assistant Cassidy Evans-Condoluci. Customer concentration is diffuse across individuals and small businesses with episodic enterprise matters; no parent company, subsidiaries, or external investors are involved, and the firm is privately held.

Name

Jeff Lewis Law

Legal name

Jeff Lewis Law, APC

Website

https://jefflewislaw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Jeff Lewis Law, APC is a California boutique litigation firm serving individuals, small businesses, journalists, and podcasters with First Amendment and anti-SLAPP defense, appellate, expert testimony, civil litigation, and Brown Act services on an hourly-billing basis throughout the state.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rolling Hills Estates

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Hourly Billing: Jeff Lewis Law provides legal representation services billed at an hourly rate with monthly invoices. The firm does not handle cases on a contingency or pro bono basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Jeff Lewis Law, APC is a California boutique law firm that represents individuals and small business owners in First Amendment, defamation, anti-SLAPP, appellate, civil litigation, and Brown Act matters. The firm bills hourly with monthly invoices (no contingency or pro bono), handles cases in state and federal courts throughout California, and emphasizes early dismissal strategies and recovery of attorneys' fees under California's anti-SLAPP statute.

Product overview

Jeff Lewis Law, APC is a California law firm offering five core legal service lines: First Amendment & Anti-SLAPP Defense (defamation, libel, slander cases), Appellate Law Services (over 300 appeals handled), Expert Testimony (attorney fee disputes and malpractice expert witness), Civil Litigation (business and commercial disputes), and Brown Act Advisory & Litigation (government transparency). The firm was founded in 1996 and serves clients throughout California in state and federal courts, with particular expertise in First Amendment and free speech protection matters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Defamation lawsuits dismissed before discovery through anti-SLAPP motions
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tim KowalminorOthersCo-host of the California Appellate Law Podcast with Jeff Lewis. Tim Kowal is an appellate specialist who collaborates with Jeff Lewis on the podcast for trial lawyers, discussing timely trial tips and latest cases from California courts.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Horvitz & Levy LLP: California's premier appellate boutique based in Los Angeles. The closest direct competitor to Jeff Lewis Law in appellate specialty — both operate as California appellate boutiques with comparable client profiles and credentialed appellate specialists.
• Lavely & Singer PC: Prominent LA-based defamation and First Amendment defense firm. Directly competes for the same California defamation and speech-defense matters Jeff Lewis Law handles, with a similar boutique reputation.
• Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP: San Francisco litigation boutique with a strong First Amendment and appellate practice. Direct competitor for high-profile constitutional and speech-defense matters across California state and federal courts.
• Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP: LA-based entertainment and defamation defense boutique. Direct competitor for defamation, libel, and First Amendment defense work — particularly matters involving media personalities and content creators.
• Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP: LA-based full-service firm with a strong entertainment and defamation defense practice. Direct competitor for high-profile defamation and speech-defense clients in Los Angeles.
• Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow PC: LA-based litigation boutique with a notable appellate and white-collar practice. Direct competitor for complex civil litigation and appellate matters in California.
• Greines Martin Stein & Richland LLP: LA-based appellate boutique focused exclusively on appeals. Direct competitor for the appellate-law slice of Jeff Lewis Law's practice, with a similar boutique-service model.
• Caldwell Leslie & Proctor LLC: LA-based litigation boutique with appellate and First Amendment expertise. Direct competitor for high-stakes civil litigation and appellate matters in California.

Broad incumbents

• Davis Wright Tremaine LLP: National full-service firm with a well-known First Amendment and media law practice. Competes for the same speech-defense clients but at larger scale and broader geographic reach.

Others

• First Amendment Lawyers Association (Member Firms): Professional association of First Amendment practitioners. Comparable as the umbrella community of firms that compete for First Amendment defense work, though not a single competing firm.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/JeffreyLewisLaw

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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