FACT-CHECK · Legally Mine’s statement, line by line against the record
After the press attention, Legally Mine posted a public statement distancing itself from Bricks & Minifigs. Here it is, in full, with each sentence checked against a specific public filing. The point is not name-calling. It is to show a non-denial being built and to hand you the document behind every verdict, so you can check it yourself.
“several prior employees of Legally Mine”
They were employees. What that phrase hides is who they are. The people who went to Bricks & Minifigs are Ammon and Matthew McNeff, the sons of Legally Mine’s founder, Daniel McNeff, and they do not merely work at BAM, they run it as principals and named plaintiffs. Calling the founder’s own sons “prior employees” is the narrowest true way to say it, and it erases the shape of the thing: one family, the father’s asset protection firm, the sons’ franchise.
“Legally Mine has no involvement with Bricks & Minifigs”
Legally Mine pledged 450,000 shares of the Bricks & Minifigs franchisor as collateral, recorded on the public Utah UCC index. You cannot pledge shares you do not hold, so Legally Mine held an equity position in BAM’s franchisor. That is direct involvement with Bricks & Minifigs, on the record, in Legally Mine’s own name.
Legally Mine certified Utah UCC lien report (the 450,000-share BAM pledge)
“ended more than five years ago (January 2021)”
The date is real. The implication is not. January 2021 is not the month an employee quit. It is the month the McNeff sons sued their own father (filed January 22, 2021). The statement takes the single most damaging internal fracture, the family lawsuit, and recasts it for the public as a routine separation of staff.
“no connection or involvement ... since that time”
In 2025, four years after the claimed clean break, Legally Mine and the McNeff sons were represented by the same lawyer, Wm. Kelly Nash, jointly defending a $1,728,000 Legally Mine membership note in one court file. Shared counsel, shared financial instrument, one docket. The connection did not end in 2021.
Sumsion Business Law v. McNeff, docket 250402162 · the verified $1,728,000 note
“no involvement with ... the matters being covered in the press”
Legally Mine, the entity, is not a named party in the Schneider case or the Salem franchise cases, and no document in the record places it inside the store takeover or the lawsuit against the critic. On this narrow point the statement is defensible, and this site marks it so. Conceding what is true is not a weakness; it is what makes every verdict above worth believing.
Where it was posted. The statement leans on the phrase “its current owners” to imply a clean, separated present. But it went out on the live “©2025 Legally Mine” website at 1337 E 750 N, Orem, the original McNeff headquarters and the exact address printed on the operation’s own captive notary commission. The disclaimer of connection was published from the operation’s own front door.
The honest boundary. None of this proves Legally Mine directed the Salem takeover or the lawsuit against the critic, and the fifth verdict concedes it. What the record proves is narrower and firmer: the two load-bearing claims, no involvement with BAM and no connection since January 2021, are each contradicted by a specific public filing. Read the verbs. The past is vapor, “relationships that may have existed.” The present is absolute, “we can explicitly confirm.” They denied the two endpoints and left the middle, 2020 to 2025, undefended, because that is where the pledge, the note, and the shared lawyer sit.
Sources: McNeff v. McNeff, D. Utah 2:21-cv-00048 (complaint filed 2021-01-22); Legally Mine LLC certified Utah UCC liens report (the 450,000-share BAM pledge); Sumsion Business Law LLC v. McNeff, Utah 4th Dist. 250402162 (joint representation and the verified $1,728,000 membership note); the statement and site footer at legallymine.com/news/ (fetched 2026-07-01). All are public records.
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