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Churchill said, those who failed to learn from history are
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condemned to repeat it. Kevin Helenan believes that certainly applies
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to business. Welcome to Winning Business Radio here at W
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four cy Radio. That's W four cy dot com and
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now your host, Kevin Helena.
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Thank you everybody for joining in once again today. I
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am Kevin Hallanan and welcome back to Winning Business TV
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as regular viewers and listeners know, is to offer its
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insights and advice to help people avoid the mistakes of others,
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right to learn best practices. Those are the how tos,
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the what toos, the what not tos. And I always
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say to be challenged and hopefully and certainly to be
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inspired by the successes of others. But you know, virtually
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every successful person I've ever had a chance to has
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had some form of failure in their lives and careers.
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So listen. While we all have to get our knees
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skinned once in a while, I'm driven to keep those
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scrapes from meeting major surgery. Let's endeavor to learn from
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history so we don't repeat it today. My guest is
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Jeremy Bombard. Bombard, I can say it, Founder and principal
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attorney at Bombard Law. Here's his bio. Jeremy Bombard is
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a business attorney. He brings extensive experience in managing a
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wide range of legal matters. He's a recognized advisor with
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demonstrated success in corporate law, land use litigation, civil litigation
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and small business advisement. Jeremy's dedicated to empowering small businesses
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with legal expertise, ensuring their protection and success in various
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corporate needs. He acts as their outside general counsel and
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handles d day to day legal needs. His legal expertise
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includes investigation procedures, corporate defense strategies, litigation management, employment law,
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and risk management. He is skilled in case assessment, discovery,
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motion practice, mediation, trials and appeals. Before moving into helping businesses,
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Jeremy was a limit litigator, which has allowed him to
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know the risks that businesses face and the consequences of
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not having the correct contracts in order. He brings that
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knowledge to keep the risks down for his clients to
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attempt to mitigate any future legal issues. Jeremy earned his
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undergraduate degree in politics and government from the University of
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Hartford and his law degree from New England School of
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Law in Boston. When he isn't working, you're likely to
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find him participating in a spartan race somewhere in New England.
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Jeremy Livesten framing him mass along with his wife, Heather.
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Jeremy Welcome to Winning Business Radio and TV. Thanks for being.
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Here, Thanks for having me.
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Kevin, you got it. So most people hear that background
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and say, wow, I did all that, I know all that,
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but we just went as a starting point, right. We
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want people to get to know you, and so I
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always like to start with some background. I know you
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live in Framingham. Tell us where you grew up.
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So I grew up in Central Mass Southbridge, and you
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don't know where Southbridge is. You've been close because I'm
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guessing everybody's been to Old Sturbridge.
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Village for sure.
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It's two minutes away.
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So I grew up there and ended up going to
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high school in Worcester. And then as I graduated, I said,
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I got to move out of the suburbs to Boston.
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That was years and years and years ago.
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But when my wife and I went to look for
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a house, we realized Boston was just outrageously expected.
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So I took a step back with to Framingham. And
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now framing him.
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Is overprice, so go figure cool, I know everywhere is right.
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So when you were young, you know, perhaps high school,
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what were your early interests as far as career wise,
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maybe you didn't even know, you know, what were Maybe
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what were you into sports. Were you into any pursuits
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of any kind?
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No, I was kind of a lazy high school student.
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It's ironic. I mean I played sports.
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I played some soccer, some baseball, some basketball, but nothing,
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you know, like even in college it was.
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More the injur murals.
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You know. Yeah, nothing as opposed to now where my
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athletic pursuits have widely changed.
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And as far as career, I absolutely I was going
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to be an attorney in.
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Fact, right, So that was one of my questions. How
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and when did you know that?
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So this happened back in I'd say in middle school.
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I remember taking an aptitude test where they you know,
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that you went through and figured out what you wanted
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to do, and uh, I said, that's it. I'm going
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to be an attorney. And I wish I remembered why
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I wanted to be an attorney so diligently.
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But since middle school ever since, and I haven't waivered.
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I've I was in pre law in college, and I
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went through college and I said I'm all done with school.
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I couldn't do it another three years of school, so
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I took time off and I said, I don't want
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to be in the law and gonna try something different,
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and I kept going back. I kept going back, kept
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going back. Was it paralegal doing regulatory work? And I said,
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all right, I guess the I guess I have no choice.
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I'm going to law school, so I.
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Have no choice.
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And uh, And I was in d C and I
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just didn't like d C. So I came back here
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to Boston. I said, it's it. I'm not going to
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be an attorney. That lasted a year, went back to
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law school, finished my law degree.
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So any any good stories of middle school, like negotiating
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trades at the lunch table or anything.
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So, because I've always asked my parents and I said,
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you know, why, why was I always wanting to be
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a lawyer? And both my parents agree, Its because I
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argued all the time. I'm stubborn. I was the first born.
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It had to be my way, that high way. So
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I argued every time everything.
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No matter what.
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So I think it just it just Yeah.
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My parents would say, You're going to make a great
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lawyer someday, and it's subconsciously stuck in my head.
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So what made you choose Hartford? University of Hartford, that is?
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And to pursue politics and government?
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The glamorous version is it gave me the most money.
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Hey, that's that's a common reason, and it's a good reason, frankly,
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but it's.
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It's when you go to law school.
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In fact, if I would have done it all over again,
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I would have actually done even done pre law, because
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in retrospect I realized it's a worthless degree. It means
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unless you're going to be a lawyer, it means absolutely nothing.
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I should have gotten English because that's the bulk of.
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What you do as already is writing, and English would
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have been much better for a legal career than pre
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law or political science or whatever they call it.
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But policide or government. You weren't wanting to get into
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politics or government law per se.
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Right, So I interestingly enough, Kevin, I thought about it
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and I said, well, that's not a bad career being
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in politics and government. And then I went to d
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C and that cured me of anything.
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You got the injection, you got the inoculation.
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I am funny.
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People say like, if you go to d C, you're
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either gonna love it you're gonna hate it.
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And I hated it.
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It was just I mean, you think the regular court
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system now is bogged down in bureaucracy, and well, as
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you can imagine, DC was even more so.
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And I just said, I don't I don't want to
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deal with I want to deal with real life stuff.
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Yeah, hey, quick side step, not a don't tell her,
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I said that. But tell us about Heather, your wife.
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So my wife.
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She is an executive assistant for the institute down in
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Randall in School.
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She's been there about two years now.
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She's uh, she loves the job some days, some days
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she hates it, like we all do. But we've been
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together married now. This will be have twelfth year in December.
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About three or four years before that in the watertown.
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And like I said, we lived together in Walfam and
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said we want to buy a place in wal Fame.
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We love wall Fame.
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We looked at the price and says, dope, that's ridiculous,
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so let's move where we can afford.
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But her and I we get along very good.
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She's actually, if you won't even do more of a
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side step about my races, she come and crew me.
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She'll help me out. She's my support group essentially. Wow.
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By the way, I didn't know that she was affiliated
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with the manage to do tell people a little bit
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about that. It's a really impressive organization.
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Yes, so they are a nonprofit organization that and my
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wife tells you this. I don't know how many.
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Schools they have, but they're there are schools that help
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children with autism.
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They there.
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I think they're all eastern and central mass I don't
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know how far out they go. I forget how many
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schools they have exactly, but yeah, they basically helped the
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kids with autism, and they provide programs at schooling and
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all the assistance to families with kids with autism and
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just basically provide a wealth of information on how to
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handle a child with autism.
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Yeah, that's such a cool mission, such an important one,
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all right, sold Oh why did you choose New England
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School of Law? You told us, you know how you
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got into the pursuit of law. You know where that
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came from? Why New England School of Law.
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So New England School Law I went to again because
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it was one of the only two law schools in Boston.
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That have a night program. And I spent a.
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Year at Columbus University.
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No, not Columbus University of this.
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Columbus School of Law at Catholic University a d C,
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great law school. I just I just like at d C,
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I wasn't. I just I just wasn't having it and
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not an expensive school. So I said, I can't afford
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to go full time. I'm gonna work during the day,
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I gotta go at night.
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So I looked around. It was either Suffolk or New England,
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and the essentially they were one and the same. And
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I think New England was a little less expensive and
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had a little bit more better evening classes to train
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to be a be a lawyer. And I know that
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sounds weird because you think, well, I'm going to law school.
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That's what you are, You're becoming a lawyer. But it's funny.
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You learn all the theory about law that hardly ever
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comes into play.
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On a day to day basis.
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And I like the fact that there were actual lawyers
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teaching my classes that would say, look, you're going.
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To graduate, and here's what's going to happen.
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Don't forget about this civil procedure, the rule of perpetuities
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or any of this other stuff.
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Here's what's going to happen. Here's hey years, how to
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get work, here's how.
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To get a job, here's how to you know, go off,
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here's how to do a business plan. And that's honestly,
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I think that's helped me more than anything I've learned
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in law school.
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Well that's a big plug for a New England school
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of law because you don't get that a lot, you know.
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No, to be honest, I don't know if Suffolk has
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that or not, but I remember looking at the schedule
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and saying, I want classes where they're more I don't
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want professors teaching it. I mean, yes, they teach you
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and you law, but I want to I want to
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learn from the guys that actually do it.