Today we’d like to introduce you to Oluwaseun “Seun” Adeyemi.
Hi Oluwaseun “Seun”, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
Our parent company Legendary Law Group PLLC (www.legendarylawgroup.com) runs on a fraction of its proceeds. All Legendary Law Group PLLC clients are paying customers (let those that can afford legal pay for those who cannot). In 2019, we started a sister company and non-profit organization called Legendary Legal Service Inc (www.legendarylegalservice.org). Legendary Legal Service Inc. provides free legal services to victims of domestic violence, homeless persons, and military veterans. We also created a subsidiary Legendary Entertainment Group in 2020 (www.legendaryentgrp.com). This company allows creative individuals to stay independent. We provide contract review, trademark assistance, and entity formation assistance. We believe creatives should own 100% of their original works. I started a law firm because I had experienced both good and bad aspects of the law growing up in California. I wanted to be able to make a difference in people’s lives.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
With the spike in unemployment, we anticipate our for-profit clients will continue to struggle, pay retainers partially, late, or stop altogether. The government is well aware of the problems with our society.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
My name is Oluwaseun Adeyemi. My father is Nigerian and my mother is African American. I was born in Oakland, California but later moved to an affluential neighborhood in Green Valley (Fairfield), California. I have one brother and one sister. I also have a bonus sister who is my first cousin, my parents legally adopted her when I was 15 years old. I saw the legal system at a very early age. My brother suffered from mental illness and as a result, was arrested several times throughout my childhood. I recall visiting him in jails and mental health facilities for most of my life. Not one time did he ever have effective legal counsel. This was my first glimpse of how the law fails people. I never understood why mentally ill were incarcerated instead of hospitalized.
Moving on to my teenage years, when my parents adopted my sister Salewa from Nigeria, it was the same year both of her parents died. My older sister and I were forced to meet with lawyers, social workers and court staff to be assessed for “fitness.” When all of her paperwork was complete and she moved to the United States, I finally saw how the law can be used to accomplish good.
Seeing both the good and bad aspects of the law is a trend that repeated throughout my adult life. My first job out of law school was in mass tort litigation working a case called Granuflo. The creators of dialysis concentrate used in treatment knowingly killed hundreds of thousands of colored persons in the southern states. An internal memo from 2012 showed the executives had knowledge that the dialysis concentrate was causing heart attack deaths. However, the profit margins for the concentrate were so high they continued to administer the granuflo up until 2017. After settling these cases for millions of dollars, I was fired by my Caucasian employer (without the bonus I was promised). It left a sour taste in my mouth so I moved on to an African American/Latin firm. However, this attorney was literally stealing her client’s money. She would settle cases and then keep the proceeds without giving the clients their share. It was after witnessing these atrocities that I decided to go independent. If I was going to be put in compromising ethical situations, it should be my own doing.
(Non-profit reasoning) When I first started out as a solo practitioner I turned down dozens of clients simply because they could not pay. The ones that resonate with me were the battered women seeking refuge and the Hispanic persons whose land was taken by the government for (gentrification purposes) without receiving payment. I never kept those people’s contact information so I started a non-profit to provide free legal assistance for those who meet our guidelines. No one else will be turned away.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Resilience. IF you cannot rebound from a hard fall, you will never be able to move forward.
Pricing:
- Federal Murder -40k
- Federal white collar-15k per charge
- Federal Assault-$7,500
Contact Info:
- Email: seun@legendarylawgroup.com
- Website: www.legendarylawgroup.com
- Instagram: @legendaryseun
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seun.adeyemi.5243
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/YOUloveSEUNtoo
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/seun-adeyemi-counselor-and-attorney-at-law-houston
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TxDg2S7la2RuSbrICCNMk
Image Credits
Seun Adeyemi
