Brian Krashpad
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Thanks Mark. It's a little scary, honestly. But obviously a HUGE blessing. My new employer is one of our old clients. He had asked about hiring me years ago, but he was down in Ft. Myers (and still is), and my wife still has another 4 years in our county school system up here in GNV before she can retire w/full benefits, so I knew I couldn't move down there. When we got close to closing up my firm, I gave him a call and he hired me without so much as an interview. Total handshake deal. We don't even have a written employment contract. I do everything remotely via e-mail, am basically just at his disposal for whatever he needs.
Just last week I went down to Ft. Myers for the first time all year, met all the staff, and attended my first trial court hearing, ever (I had previously done one appellate oral argument "on the side" at my prior firm, because a client literally begged me to). We have filed a case challenging FL's state DOMA statute (refuses to recognize valid same-sex marriages from other states), and he put me up the night before, and allowed me to appear as second chair counsel, which was nice. It could be a landmark case in FL jurisprudence, so now (his name appears on all the pleadings I've written) I'm co-counsel of record in that. And over the summer he allowed my name to go on an amicus brief that was filed on behalf of the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar (it was written primarily by me, with input from others).
It's nice to be a little more financially secure, and to be working on some important cases.
