Augustus Turner is a trailblazing entertainment lawyer, a combat veteran of 11 years, and was named one of the best young attorneys in America by the National Bar Association.
Augustus is the author behind the internationally acclaimed essay “I am a Black Man Who Jogs”, which started as a Facebook post that has been shared nearly 150,000 times and became a humanizing symbol for social justice. He is a soldier, lawyer, scholar, member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, and former first responder. His work across multiple disciplines helps him broadly address the experience of an African Americans in public and professional life.
As a Soldier, Augustus is a second-generation paratrooper who deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division to help Iraq defeat ISIS. He ran an award -winning Legal Assistance and Special Victim’s Counsel Office from 2016-207, where he represented over 60 special crimes victims and manages a team of five legal professionals doing the same. He overturned wrongful convictions in five appellate cases , and helped prosecute cases of stolen valor, arms smuggling , countless sex crimes, and abuse of trust by government officials.
As an attorney, he worked as both a JAG Officer and Special Assistant United States Attorney for nearly a decade combined. In 2022, he was the first attorney in the history of Amazon hired through a Skillbridge (military/corporate fellowship). As a scholar, he has obtained both a Master of Arts degree in bioethics as well as a Master of Laws degree in government contracting.
Today, Augustus is a global entertainment lawyer for a streaming service in Los Angeles. He is also a voting member of the Television Academy. He has been a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. since 2005, and a member of the ACLU since 2010.
A very special thanks to Augusts' wife, Michelle who not only inspired him to create this site when it was first a blog, but also came up with the idea behind the name. Their family has appeared on CNN, Little Big Shots with Steve Harvey, USA Today, Ellen, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, USA Today, and People among others.
"Augustus" is Greco-Roman for "The Venerable One".
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