Our story

I’m a lawyer, not a marketer, and not an IT department.

So I stopped trying to be all three at once, and built the system I wish I’d had. Here’s the honest version of why.

I run a plaintiffs’ practice. Between hearings, I was also running a marketing agency’s invoices, one piece of software for my cases, another for billing, a “client portal” I didn’t really have, and a pile of logins to hold it all together. Every tool charged me per seat. Every one of them wanted a call. None of them talked to each other.

The breaking point wasn’t dramatic. It was a Tuesday, a client called to ask what was happening with their case, and it took me four logins and twenty minutes to answer a question that should have taken ten seconds. I’m good at lawyering. I am not good at being a marketing department and an IT department on top of it, and I was tired of paying a small fortune to be bad at both.

What I actually wanted was simple to say and apparently impossible to buy: one robust system that finds the next client, runs the case, sends the bill, and keeps the client updated, flat-priced, private, self-serve, and under my control. Not five subscriptions and an agency retainer. One place I owned.

It actually started smaller and more personal. To help with my own day-to-day without ever putting a client’s information at risk, I designed an “in-boundary” AI assistant for my workflow, running on an old laptop on my desk as the server, so a client’s data never left my office and was never exposed to any outside service. It worked. LexSteward grew from there.

And before I ever offered it to anyone else, I ran my own firm on it, it powers the live tools at levigrosswaldlaw.com today. LexSteward is the technology company I founded to do that; it is a software platform, not a law firm, and it never practices law. It just gives lawyers the system I couldn’t find.

What fell out of building it

One flat price, per firm

I was sick of being billed per seat, then nickel-and-dimed for each “module.” So here you pay one flat price for the whole thing, and you’ll never pay per seat.

Private by design

My clients’ information is sacred. So your clients’ data stays in-boundary, never sent to any outside AI, never retained, never used to train a model. The AI helps inside your dashboard and stays silent to the outside world.

Self-serve, no sales call

I never wanted to “hop on a call” to buy software. So there isn’t one. You start free, set up in a wizard, and run everything yourself, nobody from LexSteward ever needs to call you.

You approve everything

I’m the one whose license is on the line. So nothing reaches a client without your one-click sign-off, you stay the licensed professional with the final say on every page, bill, and update.

You own it, no lock-in

I didn’t want to be trapped by another vendor. So everything you create is yours and exportable. Stay because it works, not because you’re stuck.

Levi A. Grosswald

Founder, LexSteward · practicing attorney, New York

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LexSteward is a marketing-technology platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal services or legal advice. References to the founder’s law practice describe his own firm, which is separate from LexSteward.