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Attorney David Heffernan is joined by Attorney Dean Kaire who has recently passed the Florida Bar. First Off, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
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Welcome to another episode of First off, let's kill all the lawyers. I'm David Heffernan. I've been practicing personal injury law here in Miami in South Florida for nearly three decades. The phrase, first off, let's kill all the lawyers is from 15th century Shakespeare play, drew a lot of laughs at the time, it's debatable on what it was actually supposed to mean. But the thought behind this show was, maybe let's not kill all of them. Let's take some South Florida lawyers, let's shine some spotlights on them. Let's talk about some trending topics in law. And maybe one by one, we can take them off the list. My guest this morning should be very easy to get off the list. When I say new member of the Florida Bar, we're talking about in the last 72 hours.
Yeah, as of Monday at 11:30am. Alright, but who'skeeping score? What happened on Monday is this young man, who is my law partners son, passed the Florida Bar and got those results just 72 hours ago. We're going to talk about that, because it's no small feat. But first off, congratulations, and welcome to the bar.
No, thank you. I really appreciate it. And thank you for having me on here today, of course,
And you're going to realize now you get into the practice of law that Yeah, most people do want to kill all the lawyers. So, we're going to see what we can do to dispel some of that, but, but let's talk about passing the bar, we'll talk about present and then we'll work backwards and kind of go forward, passing the bar, because it's pretty surprising. Of 3343 people that sat for the bar back in July 27 2014 - 183, passed a 44% pass rate. So, no small feat in in in passing the bar, How's that feel?
It feels great. It was a culmination of a lot of hard work, a rough summer, but after everything's, you know, fell through it all worked out in the end.
Excellent, excellent. So, while it's a gruesome rate, I will put this out there that the University of Miami School of Law, the Dean went and I'm an adjunct faculty did have an 82% pass rate, which actually was up significantly. So, talk a little bit about Dean, we're going to talk about what you did in law school, but this was now totally online. I mean, it's a thing, you know, annually, people hit the convention center in Tampa, big thing, what were the thoughts of, of taking it online.
So, my initial concerns, and I think a lot of my peers also had that same concern of when you're taking it in the Tampa test center, from what you hear, there's not a lot of things that are outside of your own control. So, if you're in the Tampa test center, and someone's rattling their pen, or clicking their pen or pencil, you're hearing all of that, but so is everybody else in the room. Now, when you're taking it online, depending on where you take it, you could be taken up by a busy intersection with fire trucks coming back and forth. Your fire alarm in your building can go off. And I know that's what actually happened at the NYU School of Law. They rented out rooms, right? Yeah, they rented out rooms to all their test takers who didn't have a place to take it, and they had a fire alarm go off in the middle of the exam. So, I feel like taking it online, that was a lot of nervous. nerve racking for a lot of different people just because there were so many factors that were probably outside of your own control.
Yeah, it's interesting and I think they'll probably delve into that. And hopefully we're, we're moving past things that we get back to take it into person, but I talked briefly to my daughter about this because she's working on her master's. And she goes, the odd thing is you're sitting taking the test and you've got yourself in the screen up there. You know, somebody is watching you the whole time, right? It's not like a teacher just wandering up and down the hallway. So she goes, it's kind of an odd feeling. But let's go back a little bit. Okay. Obviously, your dad's a lawyer. Yeah, we'll say nice things about him. Your dad and I are law p
Welcome to another episode of First off, let's kill all the lawyers. I'm David Heffernan. I've been practicing personal injury law here in Miami in South Florida for nearly three decades. The phrase, first off, let's kill all the lawyers is from 15th century Shakespeare play, drew a lot of laughs at the time, it's debatable on what it was actually supposed to mean. But the thought behind this show was, maybe let's not kill all of them. Let's take some South Florida lawyers, let's shine some spotlights on them. Let's talk about some trending topics in law. And maybe one by one, we can take them off the list. My guest this morning should be very easy to get off the list. When I say new member of the Florida Bar, we're talking about in the last 72 hours.
Yeah, as of Monday at 11:30am. Alright, but who'skeeping score? What happened on Monday is this young man, who is my law partners son, passed the Florida Bar and got those results just 72 hours ago. We're going to talk about that, because it's no small feat. But first off, congratulations, and welcome to the bar.
No, thank you. I really appreciate it. And thank you for having me on here today, of course,
And you're going to realize now you get into the practice of law that Yeah, most people do want to kill all the lawyers. So, we're going to see what we can do to dispel some of that, but, but let's talk about passing the bar, we'll talk about present and then we'll work backwards and kind of go forward, passing the bar, because it's pretty surprising. Of 3343 people that sat for the bar back in July 27 2014 - 183, passed a 44% pass rate. So, no small feat in in in passing the bar, How's that feel?
It feels great. It was a culmination of a lot of hard work, a rough summer, but after everything's, you know, fell through it all worked out in the end.
Excellent, excellent. So, while it's a gruesome rate, I will put this out there that the University of Miami School of Law, the Dean went and I'm an adjunct faculty did have an 82% pass rate, which actually was up significantly. So, talk a little bit about Dean, we're going to talk about what you did in law school, but this was now totally online. I mean, it's a thing, you know, annually, people hit the convention center in Tampa, big thing, what were the thoughts of, of taking it online.
So, my initial concerns, and I think a lot of my peers also had that same concern of when you're taking it in the Tampa test center, from what you hear, there's not a lot of things that are outside of your own control. So, if you're in the Tampa test center, and someone's rattling their pen, or clicking their pen or pencil, you're hearing all of that, but so is everybody else in the room. Now, when you're taking it online, depending on where you take it, you could be taken up by a busy intersection with fire trucks coming back and forth. Your fire alarm in your building can go off. And I know that's what actually happened at the NYU School of Law. They rented out rooms, right? Yeah, they rented out rooms to all their test takers who didn't have a place to take it, and they had a fire alarm go off in the middle of the exam. So, I feel like taking it online, that was a lot of nervous. nerve racking for a lot of different people just because there were so many factors that were probably outside of your own control.
Yeah, it's interesting and I think they'll probably delve into that. And hopefully we're, we're moving past things that we get back to take it into person, but I talked briefly to my daughter about this because she's working on her master's. And she goes, the odd thing is you're sitting taking the test and you've got yourself in the screen up there. You know, somebody is watching you the whole time, right? It's not like a teacher just wandering up and down the hallway. So she goes, it's kind of an odd feeling. But let's go back a little bit. Okay. Obviously, your dad's a lawyer. Yeah, we'll say nice things about him. Your dad and I are law p
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