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TAYO A. POPOOLA

Tayo Adegboyega Popoola is an attorney licensed to practice law in California and Georgia. He retired from the Los

Angeles City Attorney’s Office in April 2016 after several years of service. While at the L.A. City Attorney’s Office, he

defended the City of Los Angeles in state and Federal courts in civil lawsuits involving land use matters and police

misconduct cases alleging, among other things, wrongful death and civil rights violations. His practice at the Office

included trial and appellate advocacies, and he also advised numerous city administrative agencies. He was also a

prosecutor for the first two years of his career in the Office. Currently, Tayo is in private practice, specializing in

appellate advocacy. He is also a legal consultant. Tayo grew up in Oyo

State, Nigeria, where his parents were school teachers. He went to

elementary and secondary schools in the state, before attending

the then University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University)

for two years. He then transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago,

where he graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1977.

After a few years of working as a chemical engineer at the

du Pont and Monsanto companies. It was during this tenure that he met

and married his lovely and beautiful wife, Helen. After a few years, they
decided to leave the quiet of Iowa and he proceeded to graduate school. First, he attended Georgia State University in

Atlanta, where he obtained his M.B.A. in 1982. This was more familiar environment for Helen who had earlier spent a

few years in Atlanta graduating with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Atlanta University. They then

moved to Connecticut where Tayo went to the University of Connecticut School of Law, obtaining his J.D. a few years

later. Tayo and Helen reside in California, close to their son Kola and Tayo;s siblings, where he is involved in numerous

community activities and associated with different professional and charitable organizations. He enjoys running,

bicycling and working out in general. He is also a fan of several sports, especially international soccer.

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