You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. 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.

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our guest. We're joined by Christina Ortiz, Bankruptcy and Foreclosure and Real Estate Attorney,

founder of the Law Office of Christina M. Ortiz PA based in South Florida. How are you? Thank you for listening to that. Fantastic. Thank you, Benny. How are you? I'm good. And car rail, they're no joke. They're good people, good partners to have, so I do recommend them highly. And I want to thank you for coming out to the Miami event. It was great to meet you there. Great to connect. Yes, it was. It was fantastic. I was just sharing earlier that it was a great event just because there were, even though I've been an attorney already for 18 years. It's crazy. I don't know how many attorneys that I met. It was wonderful. 18 years, it's interesting. I'll tell you a little secret that's going to go out to all these people, but you say 18 years. I'm approaching my 20th year of law school graduation coming up. I got a message like this summer about a 20th anniversary in May. I don't know if I could handle it. But anyway, it's crazy how the time just goes.

And it's fun to look back over your career, you know. And so that's what we're going to do a little

bit today, because obviously you're doing some cool things. And it was great to have you and shout

out to our friend Hernan. So you're a graduate, 2008. I was 2006, but at Roger Williams Law in Rhode Island.

You also went to FSU, go Knowles, so that was first. But FIU College of Law, shout out,

good school. We know them well now. We've featured many successful attorneys from FIU College of Law.

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