Today we’d like to introduce you to Lex-Jordan Ibegbu.
Hi Lex-Jordan, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
I determined that I would be an attorney at 17 years old. Upon turning 18, I began to mail my resumes to different law firms in the area with the request that I be hired as a summer intern. After graduating from the University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, I went to Law school at the University of Miami.
I worked at some very notable firms and athletic establishments. Upon graduating I passed the bar and became a licensed attorney in the state of Florida. I spent a year and a half driving from Raleigh, NC to Miami FL on a weekly basis. I then became licensed in North Carolina. I learned a lot while working in the government and private sectors.
However, I was never content with being handed work, I wanted to be a rainmaker and I knew that the horizon was broader than it appeared. The pandemic forced me to make a transition that had been pulling on me for some time, however, I was hesitant to take the leap. In 2021 I established my own firm; Ibegbu Law PLLC.
I began to aggressively market with limited means; advertisements, flyers, mailers, posters, social media posts, free consultations, courses, and any other opportunity that made sense. I also began to seek out seasoned practitioners who would allow me to learn from them.
I constantly sought knowledge so as to become a legal savant in my practice area(s). After a couple of months of intensive legwork, my phone started ringing. At that point, I never looked back. In the present moment, I wake up every day and give thanks for the privilege to practice law and serve.
I seek to become better each day professionally and as a person so as to execute with purpose and clarity.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My road was never smooth.
Nothing in life was natural or easy for me. I gave 10,000 hours to everything that I did. However, I never complained, because you are not owed anything by anyone in this life. Some doors were shut due to my own immaturity and in some instances, things were out of my control. Throughout this journey, I learned that life is about discipline and patience.
My grandmother would always say “Obasia A go a mile” which means that “at the end of the race we count the miles”. It matters not if one person is going 60 miles per hour in the beginning while another is going 20, what matters is whether we get to the same destination.
I have learned that bitterness takes the sweetness out of life’s journey, one has to operate with a good heart in order to reap the rewards that are apparent to you. I exercise extreme patience in everything I seek. If it takes me 30 days or ten years to attain my goal, I will wait. I have attained a level of success in a short amount of time which for some is expected while for others it is unfathomable.
Regardless, I exercise humility and give thanks. I attribute this success to my principles. I seek a life of service for those who are forgotten. As a consequence, I have also received a fair amount of insults, vitriol, and pushback due to my tenacious advocacy and the humanity I observe for my clients. However, I always knew I was covered so I continue to push forward.
Thus, I only expect people to be their true selves because my path is mine alone and the only one who walks it with me is God.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
In 2021, I started Ibegbu Law, PLLC. I am presently a small firm based out of North Carolina and Florida. However, in the coming years, I will expand my practice with other attorneys and within other jurisdictions. We specialize in Business Law, Real Estate, and Entertainment Law.
We seek to help small businesses, start-ups, and founders raise capital, litigate against corporate interests who seek to push them out of the market, and protect them contractually to save them from further litigation. During the pandemic, we learned more than ever that real estate is finite. Property has been a tool that is used by businesses and individuals to protect and access wealth.
Here at Ibegbu Law, we engage in transactional work for different real estate deals. We also litigate a variety of real estate disputes and help small businesses and franchisees who are entering commercial leases. In the entertainment world, fintech, cryptocurrency, and NFTs are beginning to restructure these arrangements. As an artist, one deal can ruin an entire career.
We seek to empower artists and athletes by protecting them in the right deals and advocating when need be. We are unlike the majority of law firms in the area. We don’t see our clients as a fee, settlement, or billable hour but rather as family. We seek to grow with them, and work with them when others don’t see the necessity or the value in doing such.
This allows for a different relationship which yields different results.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Becoming an attorney is not a golden ticket, rather it is a hunting license. Subsequently, one must push away feelings of complacency because this financial cycle may not be the next. In addition, the practice of law is a lifelong career.
One must always stay focused on the big picture so as not to be dissuaded from your moral compass for short-term gain. Lastly, as an attorney, one must have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Law is a practice, no attorney becomes licensed and is all-knowing, one has to seek the knowledge necessary to serve.
In doing so one has to be humble and surround oneself with mentors whom you ask for nothing but knowledge because the money will come and go but knowledge, wisdom, and relationships are everlasting gifts.
Contact Info:
- Website: ibegbulaw.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/ibegbulaw
- Facebook: Facebook.com/ibegbulaw
