Yetunde Okonjo
Staff attorney. Collection lawsuits, collectors and robocalls.
Yetunde answers collection lawsuits and goes after collectors and callers who break the rules.
Before the clinic she worked at the courthouse help desk, where she met people the morning their default judgment was entered. She runs the clinic’s Tuesday lawsuit-answer sessions and reads every robocall log that comes in.
Yetunde’s admission and training
Bar admission
Illinois
2015
Courts
Circuit Court of Cook County
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Education
J.D., DePaul University College of Law
B.S., Northern Illinois University
Languages
English
Yoruba
Memberships
Chicago Bar Association
The answer comes first
Most collection suits are won by default because nobody answers. An answer makes the debt buyer show the agreement, the history and its right to collect, and many can’t.
If you’ve been served, write down the date you got the papers and send an intake marked as a lawsuit.