First Off Lets Kill All The Lawyers is LIVE with David Heffernan and Gary Mars

Welcome to another episode of First off, let's kill all the lawyers. I'm David Heffernan and I've been practicing personal injury law here in South Florida for nearly three decades. And the goal behind this show and we get a lot of feedback, it's a Shakespeare quote, that he meant it as a compliment. It might have meant it as a compliment, but people laughed when that line was uttered back in the 15th century. And there are people that today still think killing all the lawyers, maybe not be a bad idea. So, goal behind this podcast is to bring in other local in South Florida. And actually, we've had people out of state international lawyers to kind of introduce them to the community find out about what they do, and maybe one by one, we'll take a few of them off the kill list. My guest this morning is a friend, a classmate, we were reminiscing unfortunate goes back further than we'd like to recall. And my goal is to get them off the kill list. But I might have a hard time because I've got an issue because apparently Gary hasn't aged in the 30 years since we went to law school, my guest, Gary Mars, looking great, my friend. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. All right. So let's, let's talk a little bit just sort of general background, what is it that got you and then we're going to get into? You know, you've been in a very specialized practice for the last 30 years. But what got you into law school? What was it always a desire to be a lawyer? Was it you know, I wasn't sure what I was going to do, or where did it? Where did it start? Yeah, there are those that are, I think, are those of us who there that is a bit freaky. So, I've always been prime, pretty much designed to be a lawyer. So, I went to Emory undergrad, which is, you know, pretty much a pre professional school. So, everybody was in med, everyone's going to medical school, right about three or four of us on my dorm floor that were going in a different direction. They all ended up half of them probably went into the business school from there, and a few went into law school dribble went into actual loads of medicine, but I was always on a track to be a lawyer, just kind of how I'm wired. So that was kind of a given. But yeah, so by ology, I guess I could say, you've done something that's a little unique and you look at and you know, we're kind of blessed and partner with Mark care, one of our classmates and, you know, we've got a group of people from that long ago that still stay in touch. And it's a nice network of friends to have. But you've done something unique, and that, that you went to a firm coming out of law school, Siegfried Rivera, and you've stayed there, you're a shareholder there, and you've carved out a phenomenal practice there. Talk about sort of that first transition, because oftentimes, lawyers go somewhere, they get their feet wet, they learn a little they go, but you've dug in and build yourself a phenomenal practice at a great firm been around for 40 plus years. But talk about how you went up there. And let's talk about how your practice developed. So, I actually, if you remember, when, when we came out of law school, there was a kind of a little bit of a glut in the market. At that point. I really like bankruptcy. I really was intrigued by the whole, you know, setting up the bankruptcy plans and working through that I thought I was, you know, that was my area. But there weren't a lot of jobs. There were a lot of people lateral laying around at that point, because it was a really bad job market. So, while there was a good job market for laterals, not as good for people coming out, right, right. So, you have to meet you. And you know, the good news with the University of Miami and I guess most law schools are doing it now. You know, we had a really good development