Former Assistant United States Attorney L. Marcel Stewart (California State Bar #250920) founded the Stewart Law Group at 600 West Broadway in downtown San Diego after serving as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California from 2005 to 2008. A Howard University School of Law graduate (JD, 2001) who previously litigated the United States' case against American tobacco companies at the DOJ Civil Division's Torts Branch, the firm's criminal-defense practice covers DUI, drug offenses, domestic violence, white-collar charges, and federal indictments—drawing on prosecutorial insight into how the government builds cases. The nursing-home abuse and medical-negligence division investigates institutional failures at care facilities such as Salvation Army Silvercrest Residence, pursuing claims under California's Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act. Medical-negligence evaluations coordinate with treating physicians like Arvin B. Saluta, MD at Sharp Rees-Stealy Downtown for standard-of-care analysis. The firm's highest-profile matters include federal conspiracy prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 371, civil-rights actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and multi-defendant money-laundering cases requiring forensic-financial analysis of structured transactions.