RE Log Fall 2018

24 Ransom Everglades LOG )$// What brought you back to Miami for law school after Oxford? I was an only child and I was extremely close with my parents. My mother had been sick for a long period of time. I was very, very concerned about being away at Oxford. In fact, I cut short my time at Oxford from three years to two years because of KHU KHDOWK DQG , PRGL¿HG P\ GHJUHH DF- cordingly. I had decisions to make about where I was going to go to law school and I decided to do what was best for my family. My mother wound up passing DZD\ GXULQJ P\ H[DPV LQ P\ ¿UVW \HDU in law school in Miami. So I knew I did the right thing. Tell me about your parents. My fa- ther Harry Shubin had been a relatively distinguished lawyer in Washington and New York. My mother’s family had been associated with Miami since the 1920s. Though we lived in Miami, my father worked on an of-counsel basis with D ¿UP LQ ' & %HFDXVH P\ IDWKHU ZDV semi-retired, I had the equivalent of a young engaged father who didn’t have all of the pressures other dads have. He was very mature and very mellow and just really a great presence to be around. My PRWKHU )ORUHQFH .UHVV¿HOG 6KXELQ ZDV very active as a community leader and civic activist. She was another excep- tional human being. She was trained as a concert violinist. She went to Goucher &ROOHJH >LQ %DOWLPRUH 0G @ 6KH VHUYHG LQ WKH 1DY\ DV D FRPPLVVLRQHG RɤFHU 6KH was passionate about everything that she took on as a cause. For many years, while I was a student at Ransom Everglades, KHU FDXVH ZDV ¿JKWLQJ GHYHORSPHQW RQ Watson Island and dedicating time to her community. You worked briefly for two Miami law firms before opening your own firm in 1993. At a very young and IRROLVK DJH , GHFLGHG WR VWDUW D ODZ ¿UP , ZDV MXVW ¿YH \HDUV RXW RI ODZ VFKRRO The decision came after a very disrup- tive year. In 1992, you had Hurricane Andrew. My father, who had always encouraged me to have independence in my practice, died in December 1992. My wife and I had our daughter Georgia later that month, on Christmas Eve. At that point, I decided: What the heck; I might as well completely disrupt my life. , PLJKW DV ZHOO VWDUW D ODZ ¿UP 6R , ZDV doing all that and getting more and more responsibilities with Ransom Everglades. What were those responsibilities? I joined the board of trustees in 1988, the same year I got out of law school. I was very young but, at the time, there was a serious and contentious debate about the composition of the board. There were individual stakeholders in the school that were taking the position that the board was too parent-centric. The school was seeking an alumni balance, a parent balance, an education balance. I was an enthusiastic local alumnus, and available. To the best of my knowledge, that’s how it happened. How did you like being a trustee? The responsibility of being in leadership position at the school is immense. I was on the board from 1988-95; I was vice chair from ’93-95. One of the things that has made me so happy in my life is I’ve EHHQ DEOH WR GR WKLQJV DW GLɣHUHQW VWDJHV of my life to assist the school. I look at my service as sort of part of a continuum, part of my commitment to the school. %HLQJ DW 5DQVRP (YHUJODGHV DQG VXUURXQGHG ZLWK UHDOOy LQWHOOLJHQW DQG HQJDJHG SHRSOH ZKR KDG YHUy FOHDU SRLQWV RI YLHZ DQG KDYLQJ D VLPLODU H[SHULHQFH DW +DUYDUG DQG 2[IRUG ZHUH IXQGDPHQWDO SLHFHV RI Py HGXFDWLRQ ȉ “