There's the law.
Then, there's how law actually works.
Book time with Jah Yancey — federal litigator, former SEC Honors attorney — for a straight read on the decision in front of you: A dispute. A deal. A career move.
25 minutes, $150 · Next availability this week
Howard University School of Law · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · The National Black Lawyers · Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
SEC
2018
2
Am Law 50
300+
12+
10+
Top 40
Pro bono hours
Practicing since
Bar admissions · TX, D.C.
Current litigation practice
Former Honors Program attorney
Expert witnesses managed
Under 40, Washington D.C.
Federal agencies litigated under
FOIA
Texas and D.C. are the 3rd and 5th largest legal markets in the U.S. 122 federal agencies are subject to FOIA.
Choose your session.
Fractional Advisory
Monthly · Limited engagements
Judgment on retainer
From $0,000/mo
Strategic Advisory Session
60 minutes
The full session. Recommendations and next steps.
From $0,000/mo
Strategic Legal Consultation
25 minutes
Focused strategy on a single question.
From $0,000/mo
Law Student Advisory
Monthly · Limited seats
Career strategy, OCI, BigLaw navigation.
From $0,000/mo
Written Strategy Memo
–– add to any session. +$250
How We Solve Problems.
01
Book
One click confirms the time, the payment, and the calendar invite. No intake call.
02
Brief
Short intake goes out immediately. Conflicts check runs before we talk.
02
Build
Recommendations on the call. Written summary within 48 hours.
Ways We Work Together.
For businesses and individuals
Litigation risk. Contract disputes. Regulatory exposure.
For law students and early-career lawyers
OCI. BigLaw navigation. The rules nobody writes down.
For organizations and conferences
Keynotes, CLE, panels, and workshops.
Why I take these calls.
The legal market has split, and the middle of it is gone. Most of what used to fill a junior lawyer's day costs almost nothing to produce now. At the other end, partner rates at the largest firms have moved past two thousand dollars an hour. What disappeared is the part in between, which happens to be the part most people actually need.
I use these tools every day and I think they're very good. They are also not accountable for anything. The sanction lands on the lawyer, regardless of who chose the software. The answer got cheap, and being answerable for it didn't.
— Jah Yancey
The work happens before the courtroom
98%
of civil cases resolve before trial.
1.5M
FOIA requests filed in FY2024.
122
federal agencies subject to the Act.
Sources: U.S. Courts; DOJ Office of Information Policy, FY2024.
Background
Admissions
District of Columbia (2019) · Texas (2022)
Education
Howard University School of Law, J.D. 2018 · Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review
Discovery
Depositions taken and defended · Privilege review on million-document productions · eDiscovery strategy from preservation forward
Court
First-chaired hearings in federal court · Motion practice, state and federal
Pro bono
Asylum, voting rights, criminal justice reform · Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, High Honors, three consecutive years