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	Eiman Sharmin Sharmin & Sharmin, P.A. 301 Clematis Street Suite 3000 W. Palm Beach, FL 33401 United States

Eiman Sharmin was born April 18, 1976. He grew up in Northern Virginia in the Fairfax County area graduating high school in 1994.  After high school he attended college at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University graduating in 1999 with a bachelors of science degree in psychology, a second bachelor's of arts in political science and a third bachelors of arts in economics and had a fourth major and interdisciplinary studies with two minors in chemistry and biology. Subsequent to graduation from Virginia Tech he attended law school at Syracuse University College of Law where he met Brooke Bryson. Eiman and  Brooke became good friends right away becoming engaged and married in their second year of law school. Eiman attributes the great majority of his success to his wife who has given him infinite wisdom and his son Samuel a.k.s (Sambo the Rambo) for giving him infinite happiness. Ms. Sharmin is admitted to practice law in the state of Florida, Washington DC and the Federal court for the Southern District of Florida. Mr. Sharman is a member of the national Association of consumer advocates, the American Association for Justice and the American Bar Association.

After becoming admitted to the Florida bar, Mr. Sharmin immediately started his own practice. Initially Mr. Sharmin focused his practice on criminal and traffic matters. Mr. Sharmin handled more than 750 criminal and traffic matters taking a number of them all the way through a jury trial. Throughout his tenure as a criminal attorney Mr. Sharmin never lost a Jury trial. Mr. Sharmin in concurrence with and subsequent to his criminal practice gained experience as a family law attorney and has been the attorney of record in more than 150 family, paternity, divorce, custody and modification matters. Mr. Sharmin has also handled matters involving consumer law such as credit repair, matters involving hurricane insurance, and matters involving foreclosure. It is estimated that the total number of noncriminal nonfamily matters handled by Mr. Sharmin exceeds 150 separate matters. Despite the enormous number of cases that Mr. Sharman handled in the significant income that he enjoyed from those matters he still found himself totally dissatisfied with the practice of law. Forced to ask himself where  this absence of satisfaction came from he looked at his past experiences with an attorney named Jeffrey Krasnow, a personal injury attorney in Roanoke Virginia. When Mr. Sharman was a young college student at Virginia Tech he had an internship at Mr. Krasnow's office where he became impressed with Mr. Krasnow's practice. 

Interviewer: Eiman, what did you like about Jeff's practice and what did you like about meeting him back in your college days.

Eiman: At the time I was headed to dental school but I wasn't really able to get the kind of momentum emotionally that I needed to complete my courses in a satisfactory manner with respect to dental school requirements. looking back at it, I think I just want to go to dental school because my dad was a very successful dentist and I wanted to be just like my dad ever since I was little and it was a real growing experience when realized I was my own person and I could not be just like my dad because I was cut from a different stock with different personality traits and different talents. That is not to say that my dad wasn't an incredible person in fact my dad is still my hero.  I have learned a lot from him and even today he's an anchor in my life. Anyways, at the time I was looking to get an internship from a local attorney so I could get some kind of experience to figure out whether practicing law would be the right thing for me and I was a looking at Yellow Pages and calling attorneys to try to get this internship. One day and I saw an attorney's picture and I called him to see if he would be willing to give me an opportunity to intern at his practice. That attorney was Mr. Krasnow and I remember driving up there to downtown Roanoke to go to meet him at his building.   it was a beautiful picturesque building in downtown Roanoke and I went inside the lobby and I sat there staring at the Persian carpets and expensive paintings on the walls and I can't forget the feeling I had that day even as I sit there and talk to him. I come from a family that was always in the medical field because of my dad and I had never met a lawyer or knew anything about practicing law until that day when I walked into Mr. Krasnow's lobby. Then later on Jeff invited me into his private office which was even more impressive;  all around his building he had placed  pictures of different parts of the world he had been to. There were pictures from Russia, Europe and Africa.  It was a lot to look at. At the very top of his building He had a mock courtroom built and I thought I was just the coolest thing in the world. You know all that made a very deep impression on me because I was at a point in my life when I was looking for something to do.  I was still considering going into business school instead of law school and a professor of mine by the name of Joseph Germana who was a psychology professor at Virginia Tech said that my ability to speak was so extraordinary because I was so passionate and persuasive that the law would be a better vehicle for my ultimate talent.  While I will concede that there is opportunity for communication excellence in business especially when talking to other business leaders and employees the majority of a businessman's days are spent planning around financial equations. I really wanted to have my finger on the pulse of human concerns, be thrust in the middle of controversy; I really wanted an opportunity to mingle with the law and ultimately showcase my talent as a trial lawyer.  

Interviewer: When you were admitted to the bar why did you not go directly to personal injury?  Why did you handle so many other types of matters?

Eiman: I think I was just afraid of doing personal injury because personal injury is such a competitive area of practice. There are so many lawyers that spend millions and millions of dollars on advertising and building humongous business systems that are able to handle large volumes of cases with the aid of associates and paralegals and they'll settle cases for hard damages such as lost wages and medical bills and not even account for pain and suffering.  It is such a competitive environment because the financial rewards are so striking in comparison to the other practice areas. And I know I went off on a little tangent about the kinds of practices that are out there that are already taking up market share and you know that was a real deterrent for me; I was scared to have to compete with them.

Interviewer: What eventually helped you make up your mind?

Eiman: I eventually just could not get that feeling of wanting to do personal injury out of my chest and one day I was trying to figure out how I could market personal injury practice in an ethical and effective way and I found another attorney out of Fairfax County Virginia which is where I grew up named Benjamin Glass.   Ben has a small personal injury practice where he doesn't just take any case and you know he really emphasizes high quality legal representation in comparison to high volume questionable quality law firms. In talking to Ben and other attorneys around the country I realized that not every law firm that does personal injury is a huge high-volume practice with many employees pushing tons of paper along the conveyor belt type of law practice. I realized that I didn't have to compete with those law firms, that my business model was not like their's what I wanted to do was to treat the profession of law more like a profession that is similar to an art or craft than a business that is similar to a factory or a retail store. I wanted to not delegate my work to paralegals or first or second year associates.  I wanted to do my own work and I wanted to pay attention to my own clients and do my own research and writing and work up my own cases. What I wanted to do was a high-margin, low-volume, high quality personal injury practice.  I didn't ever have to compete with the big law firms and that I didn't need to have 500 clients a year I could have 35 or 40 and be perfectly happy doing very high quality legal work that I think all lawyers should do. I think all attorney should treat their professions like an art or craft that requires independent judgment, experience, education and thoughtfulness rather than as a business that requires systematization and delegation. Most of all civil litigation including plaintiffs injury litigation gives an attorney the opportunity to put on their suit once or twice a year.  Wear their cufflinks, shine their shoes and walk into a court of law and speak to jurors that are not judges, that are not attorneys, that are not cops or professional insurance adjusters who are just regular people that can still tell what is right from wrong and persuade them to do something that is in my eyes considered an act of justice. So you know the combination of a small low overhead practice and the fact that I realized I didn't have to have 150 cases a month and I wasn't competing with the bigger firms and the promise of doing jury trial work was such an intoxicating offer for me that I could ultimately not refuse it and in fact I think I focused all of my energy and attention and ambition and love and passion on our personal injury plaintiffs practice and I intend to spend the rest of my life like I wanted to before mingling with the law and arguing civil cases to juries not only in Florida but across the United States.

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