Retrograde Legal was founded to help creatives, entrepreneurs, troublemakers, and misfits protect their art, build their brand, and most of all…
raise some hell
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Your guides through the legal underworld
The legal system is a labyrinth of rules, pitfalls, and traps. Big companies and the government know how to navigate this legal underworld and use it to their advantage, and your expense.
We’re here to help you use the legal system to your advantage. We help people, creatives, artists, and small businesses protect themselves against exploitative companies, scammers, and government overreach.
We’re a ragtag team of misfits from big law, corporate marketing, and the entertainment industry. We left all that behind and took the tricks with us. Now we use them for the people who actually need them.
Who we Help
We represent the people who make a living through their creativity, challenge authority, and occasionally catch heat for it. If that’s you, then you're in the right place.
Production & Marketing Studios
Whether you just landed your first brand deal or you're running a full creative production company, you make businesses look good by making their content, managing their social, and fine-tuning their marketing. We make it all legal and make sure you get paid what you’re worth.
Writers & Journalists
Authors, journalists, podcasters, and bloggers. If you publish, you have legal exposure. Copyright theft, defamation claims, unfair agreements. We protect independent voices so you can keep saying the things that matter.
Performers & Entertainers
Musicians, comedians, filmmakers, dancers, if you perform for a living, we work to make sure you're performing on your own terms. We've seen the contracts venues and labels try to push. We push back.
Designers & Crafters
Tattoo artists. Fashion designers. Jewelers. Hair stylists. Body modification artists. If you work with your hands, you're a craftsperson, and your business deserves legal protection that understands.
Athletes &. Martial Artists
You aren’t afraid of a little competition. Neither are we. We get wins for you at the negotiation table and in the courtroom so you can get wins in ring or on… the court! hey we both go to court…. that’s fun. There’s definitely something there pun wise.
Art Activists & Organizations
Art as protest is a long and proud tradition. We work closely with artists and activist organizations to make good trouble and drive positive political change.
What we do
Individual Needs
The big companies and government have a well-oiled machine that depends on you not using the tools and your rights. We’re the wrench in that system.
Consumer Rights
Labor Rights
First Amendment Rights
Criminal Defense
The life of a creative doesn’t always fit inside a box… But we did our best to put it into three. From making and creating your art, turning your art into a business, and advocating for your rights as a person, we've got you.
Creative Needs
Your art has value, and so do you. Protect your intellectual property, get paid what you’re worth and don’t get exploited.
Artists Rights
Intellectual Property
Licensing Agreements
Content Creators/Influencers
Art and IP Charges
Small Business Needs
Take your creativity to the next level. Put a legal suit of armor on by starting your business, and turn your brand into an asset with trademarks.
Business formation
Trademark & Brand protection
Contracts
Marketing/Advertising law
Biz/Professional Charges
Meet The Team
A ragtag team of misfits from big law, corporate marketing, and the entertainment industry. High-profile clients. We left all that behind and took the tricks with us. Now we use them for the people who actually need them.
Joseph “Rocky” Mckay Esq.
Founding Attorney
Gus Campbell Esq.
Attorney
Fractional CMO/Kult Leader