The Anthony Reeves Experience

Letters from Baby Boomers about Jim Crow 05/15 by The Honorable Anthony Reeves | Legal : This video is the first of a series of ?Q&A? provided by loved ones who share their experiences AFTER Jim Crow. These experiences are conveyed through a series of questions answered via letters. The following questions asked were: 1) What happened around you when you found out MLK had been assassinated? 2) How did you find out Segregation was outlawed? 3) What was the first place you visited after integration? 4) Was there any place you visited who still refused to serve you even though the Civil Rights Act had been passed? 5) Name a place you refused to go to even though you were allowed to go. Why would you not go there? 6) Do you know of people who were still afraid to vote even though the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had passed? Why were they afraid to vote?

 Let me be blunt.  I did NOT think I was going to graduate from law school.   It had nothing to do with bad grades.  It had nothing to do with difficult classes.  It had nothing to do with tough teachers. I had made this determination the moment I sat in my classes at Florida State University College of Law. I had convinced myself that I did not deserve to be there.  It did not matter that I had a Bachelors degree and Masters Degree.  It did not matter that I had served in the military.  NONE of those things mattered.   What mattered was that I was attending one of the top law schools in the State of Florida and I had already decided that I would be lucky if I made it through the first semester. Despite my paranoia, I had the one thing that would ensure my success. I had a Personal Circle. Jerome (R.I.P.) and I during our 2nd year of law school. Stacey, Cherie and I studying during our 1st year of law school Sitting in the break area of the T...

 When I first open my own law firm, I tried to do it all. And when I mean I tried to do it all, I meant that I try to do every role in my company on my own. In the first year, it was easier to rationalize. It was just me so I felt like it was just a necessary part of doing what I needed to do. But the longer I was in practice and the more clients I obtain, I started realizing that I was spending more of my energy doing everything else but the practice of law. And regardless of how many cases I have or how efficient I thought I was, I learned a valuable lesson.  Every moment I spent working on something other than my money making ability, was taking time away from my ability to make money. In this video I talk about the importance of recognizing that if you spend all of your time doing other things, you are hurting your business in the long run because you’re not focusing on the one thing that’s important when it comes to running your own business.