Why I Left Law Practice to Teach
From Courtroom to Kingdom:
Why I Retired from Law
I could have kept fighting. I could have kept winning. But I chose something better—I chose to stop participating in a system that betrays its own purpose.
After 25 years as a Board Certified Labor and civil rights attorney, recovering over $85 million for more than 2,000 clients, I made a decision that surprised everyone except God: I retired. Not because I had to. Not because I was defeated. But because I was called to something infinitely more powerful than any courtroom victory.
What Happens When You Stand Up
Let me tell you a story about justice in America. It’s not just my story—it’s a warning about the system we’ve accepted.
In 2021, I did what lawyers are supposed to do: I exposed fraud. Not small fraud. Not technical fraud. Over $8 billion in taxpayer fraud involving the State of Texas. I filed the case as lead counsel in one of the largest False Claims Act whistleblower cases in the country.
Within months, something remarkable happened. After 25 years of successful practice, suddenly:
Bar grievances that weren’t even about me got redirected to me
Former clients who’d been silent suddenly filed complaints
A business dispute in Minnesota became a bar weapon
The Texas Bar began coordinating actions against me
The timing wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t meant to be.
The Absurdity That Reveals Everything
Here’s where it gets almost funny, if it weren’t so dangerous:
I was suspended by the Minnesota Bar for two weeks for representing myself. I wasn’t even a member of their Bar.
Let that sink in. Every American citizen has the constitutional right to represent themselves in court. It’s so fundamental that even people who’ve never been to law school can do it.
But when I—a licensed attorney—exercised that same right in a business dispute, Minnesota suspended me for the “unauthorized practice of law.” For representing myself. I haven’t been back to Minnesota since, though it’s a beautiful place.
That’s not a legal action. That’s a lawyer joke that became reality. That’s what happens when systems turn absurd to protect themselves. The Texas Bar took the opportunity to do the same.
It got worse. When I later fought back against this harassment—when I listened to my own counsel’s advice in defending against retaliation for being a whistleblowing civil rights lawyer—they tried to suspend me again.
This is the system we’ve accepted. And far worse happens to others every single day.
The Pattern We Must Recognize
I’m not sharing this as a victim. I’m sharing this as evidence. Because what happened to me is happening across America—across much of the world—in every institution—to anyone who threatens power.
Good teachers and professors today are being fired for questioning curriculum. Doctors stripped of licenses for questioning protocols. Police officers destroyed for reporting corruption. Corporate employees blacklisted for reporting fraud. I know—because I represented them.
This isn’t about left or right. This isn’t about Republican or Democrat. This is about a system that protects itself at any cost.
Why This Matters to You
You might think: “I’m not a whistleblower. I don’t sue governments. This doesn’t affect me.”
But here’s what you need to understand: The same system that can suspend a lawyer for exercising constitutional rights can destroy anyone. The teacher who questions policy. The employee who reports discrimination. The citizen who demands accountability.
When absurdity becomes law—when representing yourself becomes illegal, when exposing fraud becomes criminal, when truth becomes treason—we’re not in a democracy anymore. We’re in something else. And we need to wake up to what that something else is.
The Ken Paxton Mirror
While I faced destruction for exposing fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faced federal fraud charges. His defense? He didn’t claim innocence. He claimed immunity—that his position made him untouchable.
The system agreed. He kept his license. He kept his job. He even ran for United States Senate.
Meanwhile, attorneys who expose government fraud face coordinated annihilation.
What does that tell you about the system we’ve accepted?
My Choice, My Revelation
I wasn’t perfect. In 25 years of fighting Goliaths with unlimited resources, I made mistakes. Not every strategy worked. Not every client got their dream outcome. Out of 2,000+ clients, about 10 joined the retaliation campaign.
Did I deserve what happened? No. But I faced it. I fought it. And ultimately, I rose above it.
Because I had a revelation: I can’t change this system. But I can help wake people up to its reality.
I could have kept fighting their grievances, kept battling their suspensions, kept playing their game. Many lawyers do—until they’re broken, broke, or both. Instead, I chose wisdom over warfare. I chose to stop participating in a system that I finally understood would never serve justice, only power.
I chose to speak out against a system that wanted me out so badly that it had no problem leaving my current civil rights clients without representation. I chose my unfiltered voice.
The Reality of Representing 2,000+ Clients
In 25 years of practice, I represented over 2,000 clients. Licensed at 24 years old. Practiced in BigLaw. Built a nationwide firm from scratch. Helped thousands. Uncovered billions in fraud by state actors (they don’t like me). Sued mega-corporations, state and federal officials, including the courts for discrimination when most wouldn’t. I never backed down.
The vast majority of my clients were honest people seeking justice. But not all.
Some came with stories that didn’t hold up under scrutiny. Some got caught in lies during discovery. Some demanded outcomes that law and facts couldn’t support. And when confronted with reality—when their fabrications unraveled or their unrealistic expectations met legal limits—I became their new target.
This is the part lawyers rarely discuss: Sometimes the enemy isn’t the system. Sometimes it’s the client who wanted you to lie for them, and you wouldn’t.
When you tell a client their case isn’t what they claimed, when evidence contradicts their story, when you refuse to perpetrate fraud on their behalf—you become their Enemy #1. Because accepting the truth would mean accepting responsibility. It’s easier to blame the lawyer.
The Narcissistic Client Pattern
As someone who writes about narcissism, I recognize the pattern:
They present as victims with perfect cases
Evidence reveals contradictions
You confront them with truth
They rage against you instead of accepting reality
They recruit others to their campaign
They try to destroy what they can’t control
Some sued me. Some filed grievances. Some still wage campaigns years later. Not because I failed them—but because I wouldn’t enable their deceptions.
Here’s what I learned: You can’t please someone who’s angry at the truth.
As an empath, I had to learn not to take it personally. You can’t please everyone, and those you can’t make happy no matter what you do—they’re often fighting battles that have nothing to do with you. Their war is with reality itself.
I wasn’t always perfect either—I was a high-functioning alcoholic working 15-hour days, overseeing a team of almost 20 lawyers and as many staff at our peak, numbing myself with alcohol from the stress and pressure. But I could almost always fix most things. And I did.
The Perfect Storm
So when the system came after me for exposing billions in fraud, the timing wasn’t coincidental—it all converged at once—all according to God’s Plan.
But here’s what they all underestimated: my ability to see the bigger picture. I was born to handle spiritual attacks. It was my destiny. It was my cue to rise above what could have broken me absent my unwavering faith and trust in God’s molding of my life.
The Calling That Changed Everything
I always did the best I could with what I had, with what I knew at the time. Every case, every client, every battle—I gave everything. But you can’t be all things to all people. You can’t save someone from their own truth. And you can’t fight for justice in a system designed to prevent it.
When God guides my soul—I listen.
And God showed me it was time to go. Not in defeat, but in purpose. Not running from the fight, but graduating to a higher battlefield. The same voice that called me to law was now calling me beyond it.
I wasn’t retiring out of law—I was retiring into purpose—to a place where outcomes and truth cannot be manipulated.
That’s when I knew: My real ministry was just beginning.
Why I’m Better Equipped Now
The system thought trying for years, with some willing participants, to take me out of the game would silence me. I know God let it happen. I refine in the fires—they don’t burn. And that refinement led me here.
Instead, choosing to leave it behind freed me:
I can now expose corrupt and toxic systems without restrictions
I can now speak freely without professional consequences
I can reveal the playbook used against truth-tellers
I can build alternatives that help bypass corrupt systems
Through Law4ThePeople, I created an honest legal referral network—no kickbacks, no corruption, just connection. Through my SoulFull ministry, I’m addressing the spiritual warfare that manifests as toxic relationships, draining situations, and sometimes even, legal battles. Through The Super Empath platform, I’m teaching others to recognize and escape narcissistic people, patterns and systems—including navigating, when necessary, the current legal system itself when narcissists, as they do, falsely accuse.
The Call to Awareness
I’m not calling for revolution. I’m not asking you to storm courthouses. I’m calling for something far more dangerous to corrupt systems: Awareness.
When you understand that:
A lawyer can be suspended for exercising constitutional rights
Whistleblowers face destruction while fraudsters claim immunity
Justice has a price tag and power has a different rulebook
The system protects itself before it protects you
…then you can’t unsee it. You can’t unknow it. You start questioning why we sit back and allow it.
Awareness is power. Not the power to destroy, but the power to discern. The power to choose. The power to stop participating in our own subjugation.
The Bottom Line
I retired by choice. Not in defeat, but in clarity. These motherfuckers came after me hard, and their attacks were so absurd they revealed the system’s true nature. A two-week suspension for representing myself? That’s not justice—that’s a joke that stopped being funny.
But here’s what they didn’t understand: By showing me their worst, they freed me to become my best.
I didn’t leave law because I couldn’t hack it. I left because I’d seen enough to know that real justice doesn’t live in courtrooms corrupted by power. It lives in awakened minds and activated hearts.
The same system that protects the Ken Paxtons while persecuting the whistleblowers, that turns constitutional rights into violations, that weaponizes justice while claiming to serve it—that’s the system I graduated from.
I kept my soul. I kept my dignity. I found my purpose.
And now, unchained from their machinery, I’m doing what I was always meant to do: helping people wake up to the reality of what we’ve accepted, and empowering them to stop accepting it.
This isn’t about me. It’s about all of us. It’s about the system we’ve allowed to exist. It’s about the moment we stop allowing it.
They tried to make an example of me. They succeeded—just not the way they intended.
I’m an example of what happens when you see through the illusion and choose truth over position, purpose over power, awakening over acquiescence.
The question isn’t whether the system will come for you—given enough time, it comes for everyone who questions it.
The question is: Will you be awake when it does?
Thank you for your interest in one or several of these platforms. We can awaken together. We can learn from our mistakes together. We can stop tolerating bullshit together. We can turn our mess into our message, and our tests into our testimony together. We can be better, never bitter together—no matter what.
The message is simple. Question everything. Seek truth. Demand better from ourselves. Remove ourselves from people and situations that don’t align with our higher calling. And when we stumble and fall, and all of us will, fucking get back up and keep going. For me, promoting these mindsets for the glory of the true Kingdom is much more important than anything I could have ever accomplished in any courtroom.
Alfonso Kennard, Jr.
Former civil rights lawyer. Truth-teller. Not a “saint”—just a witness with a voice. Forever free. I was chosen for this. Glory be to God.
The system we’ve accepted can and does turn on anyone with the courage to stand up to it. It’s time we started asking why, expecting more, and demanding better from those in leadership
The Absurdity That Reveals Everything
Here’s where it gets almost funny, if it weren’t so dangerous:
I was suspended by the Minnesota Bar for two weeks for representing myself. I wasn’t even a member of their Bar.
Let that sink in. Every American citizen has the constitutional right to represent themselves in court. It’s so fundamental that even people who’ve never been to law school can do it.
But when I—a licensed attorney—exercised that same right in a business dispute, Minnesota suspended me for the “unauthorized practice of law.” For representing myself. I haven’t been back to Minnesota since, though it’s a beautiful place.
That’s not a legal action. That’s a lawyer joke that became reality. That’s what happens when systems turn absurd to protect themselves. The Texas Bar took the opportunity to do the same.
It got worse. When I later fought back against this harassment—when I listened to my own counsel’s advice in defending against retaliation for being a whistleblowing civil rights lawyer—they tried to suspend me again.
This is the system we’ve accepted. And far worse happens to others every single day.
The Pattern We Must Recognize
I’m not sharing this as a victim. I’m sharing this as evidence. Because what happened to me is happening across America—across much of the world—in every institution—to anyone who threatens power.
Good teachers and professors today are being fired for questioning curriculum. Doctors stripped of licenses for questioning protocols. Police officers destroyed for reporting corruption. Corporate employees blacklisted for reporting fraud. I know—because I represented them.
This isn’t about left or right. This isn’t about Republican or Democrat. This is about a system that protects itself at any cost.
Why This Matters to You
You might think: “I’m not a whistleblower. I don’t sue governments. This doesn’t affect me.”
But here’s what you need to understand: The same system that can suspend a lawyer for exercising constitutional rights can destroy anyone. The teacher who questions policy. The employee who reports discrimination. The citizen who demands accountability.
When absurdity becomes law—when representing yourself becomes illegal, when exposing fraud becomes criminal, when truth becomes treason—we’re not in a democracy anymore. We’re in something else. And we need to wake up to what that something else is.
The Ken Paxton Mirror
While I faced destruction for exposing fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faced federal fraud charges. His defense? He didn’t claim innocence. He claimed immunity—that his position made him untouchable.
The system agreed. He kept his license. He kept his job. He even ran for United States Senate.
Meanwhile, attorneys who expose government fraud face coordinated annihilation.
What does that tell you about the system we’ve accepted?
My Choice, My Revelation
I wasn’t perfect. In 25 years of fighting Goliaths with unlimited resources, I made mistakes. Not every strategy worked. Not every client got their dream outcome. Out of 2,000+ clients, about 10 joined the retaliation campaign.
Did I deserve what happened? No. But I faced it. I fought it. And ultimately, I rose above it.
Because I had a revelation: I can’t change this system. But I can help wake people up to its reality.
I could have kept fighting their grievances, kept battling their suspensions, kept playing their game. Many lawyers do—until they’re broken, broke, or both. Instead, I chose wisdom over warfare. I chose to stop participating in a system that I finally understood would never serve justice, only power.
I chose to speak out against a system that wanted me out so badly that it had no problem leaving my current civil rights clients without representation. I chose my unfiltered voice.
The Reality of Representing 2,000+ Clients
In 25 years of practice, I represented over 2,000 clients. Licensed at 24 years old. Practiced in BigLaw. Built a nationwide firm from scratch. Helped thousands. Uncovered billions in fraud by state actors (they don’t like me). Sued mega-corporations, state and federal officials, including the courts for discrimination when most wouldn’t. I never backed down.
The vast majority of my clients were honest people seeking justice. But not all.
Some came with stories that didn’t hold up under scrutiny. Some got caught in lies during discovery. Some demanded outcomes that law and facts couldn’t support. And when confronted with reality—when their fabrications unraveled or their unrealistic expectations met legal limits—I became their new target.
This is the part lawyers rarely discuss: Sometimes the enemy isn’t the system. Sometimes it’s the client who wanted you to lie for them, and you wouldn’t.
When you tell a client their case isn’t what they claimed, when evidence contradicts their story, when you refuse to perpetrate fraud on their behalf—you become their Enemy #1. Because accepting the truth would mean accepting responsibility. It’s easier to blame the lawyer.
The Narcissistic Client Pattern
As someone who writes about narcissism, I recognize the pattern:
They present as victims with perfect cases.
Evidence reveals contradictions.
You confront them with truth.
They rage against you instead of accepting reality.
They recruit others to their campaign.
They try to destroy what they can’t control.
Some sued me. Some filed grievances. Some still wage campaigns years later. Not because I failed them—but because I wouldn’t enable their deceptions.
Here’s what I learned: You can’t please someone who’s angry at the truth.
As an empath, I had to learn not to take it personally. You can’t please everyone, and those you can’t make happy no matter what you do—they’re often fighting battles that have nothing to do with you. Their war is with reality itself.
I wasn’t always perfect either—I was a high-functioning alcoholic working 15-hour days, overseeing a team of almost 20 lawyers and as many staff at our peak, numbing myself with alcohol from the stress and pressure. But I could almost always fix most things. And I did.
The Perfect Storm
So when the system came after me for exposing billions in fraud, the timing wasn’t coincidental—it all converged at once—all according to God’s Plan.
But here’s what they all underestimated: my ability to see the bigger picture. I was born to handle spiritual attacks. It was my destiny. It was my cue to rise above what could have broken me absent my unwavering faith and trust in God’s molding of my life.
The Calling That Changed Everything
I always did the best I could with what I had, with what I knew at the time. Every case, every client, every battle—I gave everything. But you can’t be all things to all people. You can’t save someone from their own truth. And you can’t fight for justice in a system designed to prevent it.
When God guides my soul—I listen.
And God showed me it was time to go. Not in defeat, but in purpose. Not running from the fight, but graduating to a higher battlefield. The same voice that called me to law was now calling me beyond it.
I wasn’t retiring out of law—I was retiring into purpose—to a place where outcomes and truth cannot be manipulated.
That’s when I knew: My real ministry was just beginning.
Why I’m Better Equipped Now
The system thought trying for years, with some willing participants, to take me out of the game would silence me. I know God let it happen. I refine in the fires—they don’t burn. And that refinement led me here.
Instead, choosing to leave it behind freed me:
I can now expose corrupt and toxic systems without restrictions
I can now speak freely without professional consequences
I can reveal the playbook used against truth-tellers
I can build alternatives that help bypass corrupt systems
Through Law4ThePeople, I created an honest legal referral network—no kickbacks, no corruption, just connection. Through my SoulFull ministry, I’m addressing the spiritual warfare that manifests as toxic relationships, draining situations, and sometimes even, legal battles. Through The Super Empath platform, I’m teaching others to recognize and escape narcissistic people, patterns and systems—including navigating, when necessary, the current legal system itself when narcissists, as they do, falsely accuse.
The Call to Awareness
I’m not calling for revolution. I’m not asking you to storm courthouses. I’m calling for something far more dangerous to corrupt systems: Awareness.
When you understand that:
A lawyer can be suspended for exercising constitutional rights
Whistleblowers face destruction while fraudsters claim immunity
Justice has a price tag and power has a different rulebook
The system protects itself before it protects you
…then you can’t unsee it. You can’t unknow it. You start questioning why we sit back and allow it.
Awareness is power. Not the power to destroy, but the power to discern. The power to choose. The power to stop participating in our own subjugation.
The Bottom Line
I retired by choice. Not in defeat, but in clarity. These motherfuckers came after me hard, and their attacks were so absurd they revealed the system’s true nature. A two-week suspension for representing myself? That’s not justice—that’s a joke that stopped being funny.
But here’s what they didn’t understand: By showing me their worst, they freed me to become my best.
I didn’t leave law because I couldn’t hack it. I left because I’d seen enough to know that real justice doesn’t live in courtrooms corrupted by power. It lives in awakened minds and activated hearts.
The same system that protects the Ken Paxtons while persecuting the whistleblowers, that turns constitutional rights into violations, that weaponizes justice while claiming to serve it—that’s the system I graduated from.
I kept my soul. I kept my dignity. I found my purpose.
And now, unchained from their machinery, I’m doing what I was always meant to do: helping people wake up to the reality of what we’ve accepted, and empowering them to stop accepting it.
This isn’t about me. It’s about all of us. It’s about the system we’ve allowed to exist. It’s about the moment we stop allowing it.
They tried to make an example of me. They succeeded—just not the way they intended.
I’m an example of what happens when you see through the illusion and choose truth over position, purpose over power, awakening over acquiescence.
The question isn’t whether the system will come for you—given enough time, it comes for everyone who questions it.
The question is: Will you be awake when it does?
Thank you for your interest in one or several of these platforms. We can awaken together. We can learn from our mistakes together. We can stop tolerating bullshit together. We can turn our mess into our message, and our tests into our testimony together. We can be better, never bitter together—no matter what.
The message is simple. Question everything. Seek truth. Demand better from ourselves. Remove ourselves from people and situations that don’t align with our higher calling. And when we stumble and fall, and all of us will, fucking get back up and keep going. For me, promoting these mindsets for the glory of the true Kingdom is much more important than anything I could have ever accomplished in any courtroom.
Alfonso Kennard, Jr.
Former civil rights lawyer. Truth-teller. Not a “saint”—just a witness with a voice. Forever free. I was chosen for this. Glory be to God.
The system we’ve accepted can and does turn on anyone with the courage to stand up to it. It’s time we started asking why, expecting more, and demanding better from those in leadership
