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The people behind the work.

LeadClient is an operating company. The people below run media, intake, partnerships, finance, and new dockets every day — and have been doing it across every era of plaintiff practice.

Leadership & Operators
Jon Gottfried
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Jon Gottfried
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jon founded LeadClient in 1999 and has over 25 years of legal marketing experience. He has been responsible for generating cases that have produced over $3 billion in plaintiff awards, including over $2 billion in bellwether verdicts.

He has personally overseen case generation across every major mass tort docket of the modern era — from Fen-Phen and Vioxx through transvaginal mesh, talc, Roundup, hair relaxer, and PFAS.

He is also CEO of JAZ Capital Partners, an early-stage investment vehicle focused on consumer companies with a particular interest in legal technology, and sits on the board of Turnout Technologies.

Founder · 1999$3B+ Plaintiff Awards$2B+ Bellwether VerdictsJAZ Capital Partners
Dax Valdez
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Dax Valdez
Chief Revenue Officer

Dax leads partner-firm engagement across case acquisition, pre-litigation services, and docket management, working with plaintiff firms, referring counsel, and litigation funders to build case-acquisition strategies around each partner's objectives.

Originally from Texas, he built his career in Los Angeles running digital marketing companies, with deep relationships across the plaintiff bar and particular expertise in performance media economics.

Revenue StrategyPartner FirmsBusiness DevelopmentMedia Buying
Jordan Berman
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Jordan Berman
Chief Strategy Officer

Jordan shapes LeadClient's case-acquisition platform, technology infrastructure, and operating model, with two decades of experience scaling operations across the digital and legal-marketing industries.

Before LeadClient, he scaled a startup from 5 to over 100 employees, built and sold a digital advertising agency, and grew Legal Offers into an Inc. 5000 company. At LeadClient he architected the automation connecting media, intake, and case management into a single operating system.

StrategyTechnologyOperationsInc. 5000 Operator
Brian Szuberla
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Brian Szuberla
Chief Financial Officer

Brian has served as CFO since 2023, with over a decade of experience in finance, tax, and accounting and deep expertise in business taxation for corporations and partnerships.

He previously practiced at Deloitte and Moss Adams and was a partner at Hughes Szuberla. He is a licensed CPA in California, with a B.S. from UC San Diego and an M.S. in Accountancy from San Diego State.

CFO Since 2023Licensed CPA · CaliforniaDeloitte · Moss AdamsHughes Szuberla Partner
Stefan Rest
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Stefan Rest
Chief New Ventures Officer

Stefan connects litigation funders, co-counsel networks, and strategic partners around portfolio development and new docket opportunities, oversees the ventures that open new acquisition channels, and runs LeadClient's Puerto Rico office.

He has more than two decades in litigation origination, going back to the early days of internet-based legal marketing. As co-founder of Wise Law Group, he helped build one of the industry's first case-acquisition platforms serving plaintiff firms nationwide.

20+ Years OriginationPuerto Rico OfficeWise Law Group Co-FounderPartner & Funder Network
Adrienne Carter
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Adrienne Carter
Chief Business Development Officer

Adrienne leads the firm's Retail Case Acquisition Division and shapes new business strategy. Over more than 17 years in the plaintiff legal sector, she has built relationships with leadership firms across the country.

Before LeadClient, she built a successful intake marketing team and helped scale a major U.S. litigation funder that deployed more than $300 million in capital.

17+ Years Plaintiff LegalLitigation Finance$300M+ Capital DeployedLeadership Firm Network
David Nathan
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David Nathan
Director of Online Marketing

David runs media buying across search, social, native, display, and CTV, deploying over $25 million annually across active dockets. He has been at LeadClient for over 15 years.

With two decades in paid search, he was among the first marketers to use Facebook to generate cases for law firms — back to the Yaz/Yasmin litigation — and has been early on every major paid channel as it opened to legal advertising.

$25M+ Annual Media Spend15+ Years at LeadClientSearch · Social · CTVChannel Pioneer
Ben Slor
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Ben Slor
VP of Marketing & Israel Site Manager

Ben runs the firm's Tel Aviv office, managing a team of senior marketers and developers.

He worked directly with TikTok to establish legal advertising as a permitted category on the platform — opening a new acquisition channel for the plaintiff bar. Before LeadClient, he led marketing that launched consumer brands into regulated U.S. markets.

Tel Aviv OfficeTikTok PartnershipRegulated MarketsConsumer Brands
Simone Vazquez
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Simone Vazquez
Director of Strategic Partnerships

Simone leads LeadClient's long-term, vertically integrated partnerships — multi-docket programs where LeadClient operates as a firm's embedded origination arm, with media, intake, pre-litigation, and docket management running as one operation.

She works with a deliberately small number of firms at a time, structuring engagements that span dockets and years rather than campaigns and quarters — the relationships where the full stack does its best work.

Strategic PartnershipsVertical IntegrationMulti-Docket ProgramsPartner Firms
Noah Robinson
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Noah Robinson
Director of Performance

Noah makes sure nothing important goes unnoticed. He continuously monitors performance across LeadClient's media, marketing, and intake operations, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, raise quality, and maximize results.

He analyzes campaign performance, scrutinizes intake quality, tracks key operational metrics, and helps surface anomalies before they become problems — giving leadership the insight needed to optimize every stage of the acquisition process.

Performance MonitoringIntake QualityAnomaly DetectionOperational Metrics
Mariah Trinh
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Mariah Trinh
Director of Intake Operations

Mariah runs the firm's Denver office, leading a team of 20+ intake specialists with responsibility for training, compliance, and quality control across the intake operation.

She works directly with partner firms on retention decisions and case-quality calibration, refining screening criteria as docket evidence develops. She launched the Denver office and has nearly a decade of intake experience.

Denver Office20+ SpecialistsTraining · Compliance · QCPartner-Facing
Maria Accorinti
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Maria Accorinti
Director of Business Development

Maria manages partner relationships across plaintiff law firms and litigation funds, aligning case-acquisition campaigns and intake operations to firm-specific docket criteria.

She began her career in intake, building her foundation in claimant qualification and case-fact capture — operational fluency that now shapes partner engagements.

Partner RelationshipsCase AcquisitionIntake BackgroundPartner-Facing

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