“It started with a desire to help people,” offers an altruistic Johnnie Bond Jr. Esq. on his decision to become an attorney.
“I was persuaded early on to pursue a degree in architectural engineering. Once I channeled my interest in college, it was in student government. I really enjoyed helping students understand their rights. As African Americans, we have experience fighting for equal justice and equal rights. I witnessed that coming up. My grandfather was involved in the fight to integrate schools in Tennessee; that’s my legacy,” he avers.
Bond is a partner at Bond Law, PLLC, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on accident/personal injury litigation, business law and commercial litigation for government contracting companies, contract disputes, real estate, general legal services for small businesses and start-ups and copyright and trademark infringement law.
A graduate of Tennessee State University, where he served on the student government association, Bond pursued his passions: leadership and helping people. He reveals, “I have a strong background in mathematics but there was a point when I realized that I didn’t have a desire to pursue engineering.”
Fast forward to his post-graduate pursuits; Bond says making the decision to University of Tennessee College of Law was a great choice because “it was an excellent school and excellent experience.”
Fresh out of law school, he honed his litigation skills and, uncommon for associate attorneys, Bond originated his own clients.
He begins, “As an idealist, I moved to D.C. to change the world, essentially. I moved to Washington to D.C. to accept an opportunity to work for a small solo practitioner law firm that focused mainly on civil rights.”
In 2006, he started his boutique firm Bond Law, PLLC, where he “weaves together his transactional and litigation skills to provide his clients with comprehensive legal services designed to achieve success and add value.”
“At Bond Law, we’re all about protecting client’s interests. I’m an attorney who can step into a boardroom and represent a corporation and step into a courtroom and represent the most vulnerable people in our society. I have this ability to [traverse] between both worlds. In our global economy, we witness the merging of the two worlds anyway with social entrepreneurship and corporate citizenship,” he shares.
“D.C. is a great place to operate a law firm with these ideals. With this being the nation’s capital, every organization with a progressive concept is represented here, has a D.C. address and lobbies itself to the government.
“Essentially, it’s a great place for Bond Law, which has a twin goal to help individuals and small businesses obtain opportunities and to promote the ideals and protect the most vulnerable in our society,” the Nashville, Tenn. native closes.
