About Caleb A.
Caleb A. Gilbert followed an international and interdisciplinary path through graduate education before settling into practice in California. He earned an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013 after receiving his J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2011. Earlier studies include an M.S. from the University of Oxford in 2006 and a B.A. from UC Davis in 2005, where he studied history and Chinese.
Those academic choices fed into a varied early career. While in law school he worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment in a legal affairs internship in 2009. He stayed involved with UC Davis School of Law as a research assistant and teaching assistant in 2010. Around the same period he served as a political analyst for the U.S. government, a role that exposed him to public policy and regulatory work.
After law school Caleb moved to advisory roles. He spent time at Deloitte in 2013 as a tax consultant. That position gave him hands-on exposure to tax planning, compliance issues, and technical analysis. The consulting experience sits alongside his entertainment-industry internship and government work, giving him a practical view of how legal rules affect both business strategy and public programs.
In 2015 he joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP as an associate lawyer. At the firm he has worked on matters that draw on his mixed background: transactional work, tax-related questions and projects that touch on media and corporate clients. Colleagues describe him as methodical in his analysis and pragmatic in advising clients. He brings together legal training, technical tax knowledge and an awareness of regulatory forces.
Caleb maintains memberships in several professional organizations. He is a current member of The State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. He also belongs to the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Those affiliations reflect both local roots in California and ties to broader professional networks.
He frames his work around careful analysis and practical solutions rather than headline-making litigation. The different roles he has held—intern, researcher, analyst, consultant and associate—inform how he approaches client problems. He is based at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP and carries on work that draws on his background in tax, transactions and entertainment-related legal matters, focusing his practice on those types of issues.
