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.