Why the name “Legacy Law Firm”?
You may have noticed that most law firms are named using the last names of one or more of the founding partners of the firm, like Riley, Woods, & Bentley, PLLC, or Smith, Rhodes, Porter, George, and Williams, P.A. (you laugh, but it happens!). While I am a big fan of my last name, given all the crazy ways I have heard it pronounced over the course of my lifetime (So-salmon, Sauce-man, etc.🤔), I just didn’t see it going over so well.
While talking to God about this conundrum some months back, He showed me that the answer was not found in my family name, but in my family lineage. My family history is rich with people who overcame impossible odds in order to pioneer new territory and open doors of opportunity for many people around them along the way. People who left a Legacy.
Take my grandpa for example–born into poverty on the eve of the Great Depression, his family sharecropped land in the Arkansas River Valley until work dried up and their Grapes of Wrath story began. After packing everything they owned into their Model T pickup, his family made their way west in order to find work spraying trees in the orange groves of California. Some years later, with only a tenth grade education, he started his career as a truck driver for a pool chemical company in California. Determined and hard working, he learned all he could about the business, eventually working his way up to being Vice President of the company. When the company sold out and he was let go, he found some investors and decided to start his own chemical company, which eventually grew to 3 locations and 300 employees. Several of those employees were immigrants that he helped to sponsor in order for them to gain residency and citizenship in the U.S. After selling the company in the early 90s, he and my grandma came back to their beloved Arkansas and bought the very land their family used to sharecrop–now Sossamon Family Farms.
Today, I have the amazing opportunity and honor to carry on the incredible Legacy my grandparents left, and Legacy Law Firm is one of the ways I am doing it. While I’m not selling pool chemicals, I am pursuing the dream God has put in my heart and partnering with business owners, families and individuals to chase after their dreams too.
Who has left a legacy in your life? I’d love to hear your story!
