Ep 198 | Michael Shane | Pillar of the Florida Immigration Law Community
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 198 features Michael Shane, Florida Bar Board Certified Immigration and Nationality Lawyer, a Managing Partner at Shane & Shane, P.A. located in Fort Lauderdale, but serving all of South Florida with a worldwide client base. We discuss Michael's journey to the profession of law beginning with his childhood in Oceanside, NY to his days at the University of Miami School of Law. Mr. Shane pursued through some difficult times and ascended to the profession because of his hard work, dedication and some timely advice. Michael was an inaugural member of the Florida Bar's Immigration and Nationality Law Certification committee. From 1986 to 1987, Mr. Shane was President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Immigration and Lawyers Association (AILA). It was a pleasure to interview a pillar of the Florida immigration law community.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. |
| 0:04.0 | Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.0 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:25.7 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:41.6 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Betty Gold. |
| 0:51.6 | Today we welcome in Attorney Michael Shane, Florida Barg Board Certified, Immigration and Nationality Lawyer, one of the managing partners at Shane in Shape, PA, located in Fort Lauderdale, |
| 0:58.0 | but serving all of South Florida and has a worldwide client base. |
| 1:03.0 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:05.0 | I'm great. Thanks for asking. How are you, bet? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, good, for sure. And guess one, everyone. |
| 1:11.0 | This is a very special episode. |
| 1:14.9 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:16.2 | Michael Shane is my uncle. |
| 1:18.5 | So he's my mother's brother. |
| 1:22.2 | And it's really a pleasure to record an episode with him after we've recorded over 185 episodes. It's amazing |
| 1:30.4 | to get Michael Shane in here. And it should be stated. Uncle Michael, I want to give you props because |
| 1:37.5 | some of the motivation, honestly, for the lawyer stories platform was hearing about your story throughout my life. From the time |
| 1:48.2 | I was a kid going to UMass Amherst, having thoughts about attending law school. I was a legal studies |
| 1:53.6 | major. I was very interesting. Interested about it. I used to email you about the 14th Amendment and |
| 1:58.2 | like immigration law and remembering your journey because obviously |
| 2:02.8 | you know my mother would tell me about it a lot and so I started to get the sense that like |
| 2:08.3 | you know somebody can not anybody but even if your circumstances are sort of against you |
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