Draft:Melvin Sims III

Melvin L. Sims III, (born 25 July 1974) is an American landlord-tenant attorney and real estate broker. He is the founder and managing partner of the Tenants Rights Group, LLC, also known as “TRG”.

Education
Sims received his early education and high schooling at the Whitney M. Young Magnet HS. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Amherst College in 1997. He received his Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law in 2002.

Career
From 2005 to 2010, Sims was the National Coordinator of The Affinity Group of African-American Attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He was also a member of the board of directors of the former Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) and on the LAF Board's Labor Relations/Personnel Policies sub-committee.

Sims is the founder and managing partner of The Tenants Rights Group, LLC, a commercial and residential landlord-tenant law firm in Northern Illinois.

In 2022, Sims represented R. Kelly in a property case. Kelly was convicted of three child pornography charges and three charges of enticing a minor and was sentenced to serve 31 years imprisonment in a combination of concurrent and consecutive sentences.