so mentors in the practice I was a huge

beneficiary of uh quite a few mentors in

our firm from Ron gtz to Eric Larson to

my my father Albert manashi and they all

taught me different things but what

stands out to me the most as a lesson my

dad taught me early on was uh we’re in

the people business and he asked me

what’s your job as a lawyer and I

naively said to win to win cases and he

looked at me and smiled he said it’s to

create a happy client and that really

stuck with me and I said well that makes

sense and he said there’s three really

basic pieces to creating a happy client

if you’re in the in the service business

one is creating an incredible experience

and second was getting incredible

outcomes and third was at a reasonable

price and he reminded me that the

outcome you have less control over but

the service side The Experience side you

have all the control over and so our

firm has always considered itself kind

of the Blue Ribbon standard to providing

that high high level of service to

ensure that the client has as little

fear of the unknown and it’s as well

educated as possible for they make

informed

decisions one consistent piece of advice

I give to clients throughout the process

considering how emotionally charged it

is and how difficult the process is it’s

highly personal is it’s not just where

you end up but it’s how you get there

that’s critically important it’s very

easy to to kind of go down to the lowest

common denom and do things you’d regret

later and so I I feel like I’m always

reminding clients uh because I’m I’m

usually working with great people going

through a tough time that we want to get

through this process with so with Grace

and integrity and that at the end of the

day we want you to be able to look in

the mirror and be proud of how you got

there not just that you got there and

it’s even more important when you have

kids and you’re thinking about sitting

at graduations or volleball games

together and so I feel like I’m always

reminding clients of that one key piece

of that integrity and Grace and being

proud of how you got there and not just

getting there