The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - LAW OFFICE of BRANDON DIXON | BLACK MARKET w/ Karlous Miller

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

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Yeah, them too flat. Them going out to the club. You look like you're about to meet ghosts from power or something. That's what I'm going for, man. Yeah, you're too flat. I don't know. Don't come to court this flat ever, because whatever we ask you for it is gonna look like we don't need it.

So you need to start getting you some old man suits, them shoes is too fresh, and they look expensive, man. You're looking to establish, man. It's a little something. Nah, you fit the persona, but you look too rich. Oh, man. Yeah, so when you go in there and you ask for the money, you need, you're gonna have to bust it down a little bit, man.

I'll tell you, I appreciate that. Your suit got to be like one of them granddad's suit, like you're gonna sing a Negro spiritual. Not like a Deacon, not like a Southern Deut. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, man, don't hit me without, man. The suit's right under the Steve Harvey suit. You're gonna box me in like that, man.

Absolutely. Yeah, that's funny. See? That's what I'm saying You all sit, you're cool I'm chilling Nah man When you go to court

Make sure you put the ugly suit on That don't fit right All the tailor shit And you got your initials Come on man It's a little song Great It ain't, you know

I'm just saying If I was a clan I'd be like Hell no Take some of this shit off You're doing too much You're looking to establish We got some

What's my music AWOL You don't even have the tracks he don't do this we just had him oh yeah the community college program oh he's trying to do this shit for us i love you giving all the people opportunities though man that's awesome you get what you pay for all right welcome back to the black market what hold up hold up i'm missing something i need my bill i got to let them know the black market is open Hurry up.

Talk to them like that when they come from college. It's this little college up the street. Is it in there? Yeah. Hook me up. We do this shit like the stock market over here. We don't start nothing until we ring the bell. Uh-oh.

That's the most vital part of this. Because you know what the bell means. That the black market is open. That means that is money on the slope. You need to be out hustling. Now here. At the black market, we had all kinds of entrepreneurs, scientists, people who sell tequila, barbers, truck drivers, the lady who make party balloons and put the swishers in the sick

Rillows in them. We didn't have people come on here and make us cakes, pies, cookies, brownies, candy, all types of things that you didn't even know black people were into. We had one girl with a lufous sponge, another dude invented the socks with the grip on the bottom. These are all black-owned products, man. We had to go out here and make sure that we was handling all our legal obligations, too. Because, you know, I love to be out, and they were like, have you been hurt in a car accident?

All that type of, all that. Because we know people who are walking around waiting on some settlement money right now, but they might not have the right lawyer, so we got the right people in here. We got Mr. Brandon Dixon in here with us today. Tell them. Tell them about you, Brandon. What do you want the people to know? I'll get them to the check, Carlos.

Like you said. I believe it. With the admissions on the cuffling, let me know that you're not planned. Absolutely. How did you get into this? Well, I kind of transitioned into law because I wanted to have my own platform. I wanted to be able to have my own business and help people at the same time. So for me, it kind of married the two.

me to have a thriving business and help people in the community get what they deserve in terms of justice and you know conversation if they get injured what made you pick personal injury I mean it kind of fell into my lap when I first started out I was doing criminal defense I had a client who said can't win them all right ain't win them you got tired of coming back with the police man don't sign for that man this is the best they gonna be able to do right although I was pretty good at criminal defense I had a client we had an auto accident she called me she Was she a criminal?

She wasn't a, she wasn't a cruel. We can't categorize us that. She just had a misfortune event, let's just call it that. So she got into an auto accident, she called me up. I was like, I don't know if I can help you. She was like, Brandon, I trust you. So I was like, all right, cool, I'll give it my best shot. So ended up taking her case, I ended up getting the policy limits,

which is the maximum amount of money that you can recover for her case. And so that insurance company sent me the big check on my first case and I was like oh wow I'm in the wrong line wrong line of business so I had to I had to you know pivot over to you know personal injury because obviously to me that was a sign that it was my calling man what was your process you said that was your first time and then you hit them for the max yeah the max like what was your preparation would you have you say it was a big pivot like you already in the law field so this kind of outside your wheelhouse what kind of

resources did you use? And how did you figure out how to get the max? Absolutely. So, so obviously when you go into a new area of law, you got to contact people who specialize in that area. Right. So at that time, as a new attorney, I just reached out to other people who were experienced in that space. I said, what do I need to, you know, help this person resolve their claim? They kind of gave me the roadmap to do that. I followed their roadmap and boom, big settlement. Big cell. Hey, easy. One, two, three. Yeah. Damn. For sure. So how long have you been at it? Man, I'm at 10 years as of this year.

Really? Yeah. When I graduated from law school, I didn't work for anybody. I hung my own shingle. That's what they call it in law. I'm learning something new every day. Hung my own shingle. I had to hang my shingle, you know.

So I've been working for myself ever since. Obviously, I've had mentors that I can, you know, call upon and say, hey, I got this situation, how should I handle it? And then, obviously, I had to do the legal research myself to kind of understand what I needed to do better serve my clients. I really brought you on here just so I can ask, you know, I'm an actor, and I wanted to be in a commercial. If you ever need somebody in the commercial to be like, I was injured over 80% of my body. Brandon Dixon got my money. If you call Brandon Dixon, he'll get your money.

Right, for sure. And that's when you pop in. Hot, I'm Brandon Dixon. I'll get your money. Oh, absolutely. Okay, that's hard, bro. You know, I got all my notes on here. One thing that was really interesting to me is that you do dog bites.

Now, like, we got to talk about that. We got a niche audience and we want to know what them dog bites settlement because people think that they dog are just supposed to run free and no consequences of nothing. What them dog bite settlements are hitting for? So everything depends upon the circumstances associated with a particular incident. which relates to like the injuries, the medical treatment, like how egregious the incident was, that all drives the claim value up.

But in particular, like dog bike cases most often happen at people's place of residence. So like in an apartment complex where you have other residents walking their dogs off the leash, but the apartment complex has a leash policy. they haven't been fought the residents haven't been following that leash policy next thing you know they they buy the innocent person or in the alternative the dog chases after somebody so even if you don't get bit even if you don't get bit oh hell yeah it's on it's on i mean obviously you you know you got to be injured as a result of whatever you know transpires but you know we can work it out absolutely because people don't be wanting to put them dogs on those leaves absolutely not and that that drives up the claim value especially when it's a repeated issue have you like you had some friends do that like somebody go over somebody house and then unfortunately get bit by the dog and then

they sue their home they're like bro we still cool but I need this money no comment okay I'm just get it off me I haven't had that happen yet though man like where does most of your clients come from like what's been a good place for people to get in touch with you so so most of most of my clients come from other clients word of mouth referrals for sure obviously clients that are injured they treat with medical providers and so during that time you kind of build relationships with medical providers too and so the medical providers when they see that we produce a good outcome they say hey you might need to consider Brandon if you're injured for whatever the incident may be so it'll be former clients medical providers

and just people in my network. So that's just in the movies where they'd be sitting out in the hallway or the ER, like, hey, you need a good lawyer. Passing out cars and shit. You know, that's a part of the game too. But most of my clients come from word of my referrals. That's what's up. You know I got all my notes on here,

man, all your accomplishments and good grades and shit at school. I wish I could say that I got the best grades. I got out. I'll say that much. Really? Well, I mean, if you work, if it's working out, ain't nobody gonna ask you what you did. Right, right, right, for sure, for sure, yeah. Georgia State, what was that like? Georgia State was, was me finding myself.

That was undergrad. So I'm a country boy. I'm from Macon, Georgia. You ain't country. That's, hey, Macon is the Wild Wild West night. I don't know, you know. I grew up in Jones County, though, but I was born in Macon. They don't play.

They're going to hear you say country. They were really talking to, boy. You know what I mean? I embrace it. You know, I can't run from that. It is who I am. We did a show at making and shut the whole city there. At the Coliseum.

Man, they told us the next time we come to make it, they need to know two months in advance. Oh, yeah. Traffic was messed up there. We didn't have traffic in making. That's an event, man. You know, the cherry blossom and whatnot goes down in making. But, you know, Georgia State was just kind of like my introduction to Atlanta and what Atlanta embodies, you know.

And then I'm looking at it. the year boy that was some good years to be at georgia state yeah the city was oh five that you was down in the snap music era oh yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely you had some feel like i i had uh on metropolitan we would get our white tees come on man we're at georgia oh yeah walters metropolitan walters slouch slats all that oh no slout i didn't make the slouts but i had the long teas for sure um a lot of my home boys were from new york so they were already kind of on that that way Right. The only be funny is that when New York people moved in Atlanta and they think they can

wear Thames all summer. Oh man, every season, not all summer. Every season. It was gonna look like smoke neck bone when you take them boots off. Shorts and everything, man. Absolutely. Yeah, man. So, you know, Georgia State just kind of introduced me to Atlanta where I guess people call Black Hollywood.

Now, it allowed you to see affluent, successful black people that look like you thriving in multiple areas. areas. So once you get exposed to that, you say to yourself, all right, I can make it too. So that's what Georgia State was to me. Man, like, when I first moved to Atlanta, you know, it's so much blackness here. It'll overwhelm you because you'll just get used to seeing black people do everything. For sure. I remember one day I was going down one of them streets and the fire truck was in front of me right. I guess they was coming back from a call and it was an old black dude driving the fire truck. And it's like, he just whipped that bitch in like a kind of like you know they had to jump out of right he ain't even had no help he was

just backing that bitch straight in all like boy this is the america i want to live in right right yeah you'll see it all for sure in Atlanta man no doubt most definitely man so what's next what you got playing for the law office of brandon dixon well um we're trying to scale um I've been pretty low key with my business you know allowing word of mouth referrals to kind of drive the clientele to my office so now I decided it this year for year 10 to do things differently yeah try to level up so this year we're doing marketing in a different level we're doing we're being more visible we're letting people know the services we provide so that they know who to call you know it's more attorneys out here

than Ken Nugent you know I just want people to know that they got somebody else they're making some hell of promises one call that's all I'm telling you you know I under promise over deliver you You gotta come up with a cashphrase then. Let's come up with something. Oh, Lord. I would try to stay away from that, Lowe. I hit you right back. Let's keep it going.

Let's see. I was, Lose, I was trying to stay away from the catchphrase. You're trying to get that money in there acting funny. Hit Brandon Dixon. We're almost there, man. We're getting there. All right. We'll keep it really lemon.

Okay. Brandon Dixon, I do this shit for real. That might hit, man. That might be it, Loz. 10 years in, on their ass again. I'm telling you, man. And we're going to stay on them. No, man, do you have a website or someone they can contact you if somebody is in need of services right now?

Absolutely. Brandon Dixon Law, Dixon spelled D-I-X-O-N. Then my office number is 404-884.84. 89 91 well bet you guys you know you got a new client in me because I'll be here well I love to hear not seeing dog bike dog my partner just got ran off the road today I don't know way it went but yeah he was on the way to trade his car and he got ran over oh we can have a consultation shortly after this interview you know I don't ask for I need a 3% recovery fee you know I need

a wrap on this yeah we'll talk offline on that one I know people I know a lot of people who get injured. They didn't say nothing because the insurance wasn't right. I take care of people who take care of me, Lopes. Hey, say less. Say less, man. Well, I appreciate you stopping by the black market. It's your first time.

Don't let it be your last, man. The black market is wide open. None of you than Mr. Brandon Dix. That's how we living out here. We'll get the info out. Oh, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon,

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And that was that moment. Listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast.