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mentors
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in my life in my professional life i i
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had a couple
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right after my freshman year in law
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school i got a job with a personal
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injury attorney
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someone who i would refer to as an old
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timer here in denver he had a small
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personal injury practice
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and he hired me as a law clerk and
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fortunately he
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and i clicked very quickly quickly and i
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worked the next two and a half years for
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him
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as a law clerk and learned the nuts and
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bolts of personal injury practice
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with him that experience allowed me to
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get through law school
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and succeed in law school and then
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pursue a career
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in personal injury and interestingly
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that’s where i met
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my law partner mike zawoya he was an
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associate at that firm
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after i left that firmware after i
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graduated from law school
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i spent a year working for a judge in
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denver district court
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and i would think of him as a mentor too
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he was a very
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even-tempered kind man wonderful
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courtroom
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temperament intelligent and he really
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exposed me uh to trial practice
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the experience of trying cases personal
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injury cases in the courtroom
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i had an opportunity to observe that for
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a complete year and working
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on those cases from the side of the the
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opposite side if you will of of
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our fence from the bench finally i would
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say my law partner mike sawoya
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has been a mentor to me as well he’s a
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little older than i am now just by a
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couple of years
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but i’d like to think that we’ve kind of
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mentored each other through the practice
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of law