Eduardo Ayala Maura

Business trial lawyer. Founder + CEO @ayalalawpa

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Our new home.

📍 2490 Coral Way, 4th Floor, Miami, FL 33145.

☎️ [phone].

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[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

I love KFC.

Whoever created fried chicken should be in jail.

Today I go to the KFC near the office I always go. Right at noon or before. The place was empty. The cashier, who is also the manager, starts making conversation with me.

Her opener was about how slow business was. She shared that yesterday after lunch they had only had $400 in sales. I don’t know what good sales or bad sales are at a small KFC, but the implication of the comment and the tone of it was that that number is unusually low.

One topic leads to the other. In less than 3 minutes we talk the economy and politics, and she then shares that she has been working at KFC for 23 years. That after 23 years, she only makes $14 an hour as a manager.

Who can live on $14?—she comments. Impossible, this city is prohibitively expensive, I comment.

I couldn’t believe that she had spent 23 years at KFC and that she only makes $14 an hour after all these years. If I recall correctly our lowest paid US employee (in his/her early twenties) is 20 or 30% more than that amount.

She then tells me that she’s two years away from retirement and that she’s just waiting for these two years to pass to go back home to Nicaragua. That in Nicaragua her house is already paid off and that she can live there for $800 a month comfortably.

She also tells me that once she retires she’s due, give or take, $1,200 a month in retirement money.

As soon as she says that, she grabs a calculator that was right below the front counter and does the math for me. Look—she tells me—$1,200 is around 44,000 Cordoba, the local currency. With 44,000 Cordobas, I can live really well.

I acknowledge, I assent, but most importantly, I listen. With care, because I do. I worked for dunking donuts for $5.15 an hour when I first came to the US 24 years ago. Unlike her, I have been extremely lucky and privileged and I make more than $14 an hour.

Her story only reinforces my sense of gratitude for all the things I have personally. Forget about money. Health, mental acuity, energy, love, family, friends and an incredible circle. The list is interminable.

I am incredibly blessed from any stand point or perspective from where you want to look at.

If you are reading this, chances are you are as well. Chances are you have been more fortunate than this kind, hard working Nicaraguan immigrant, in her sixties, who’s given 23 years to a corporation, to get to just $14 an hour and the hope of a modest retirement fund.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

We think in tens. The decimal system is ingrained in our brains.

If we go for a long run. We don’t go for 9 or 11 miles. We go for 10.

We don’t say it will take 9 minutes. We say it will take 10 minutes.

We don’t say if you don’t do this you will do 19 push-ups. We say do 20 push-ups.

Consistent with this paradigm, today I reflect on reaching the 20 employee mark.

Quite a number. What started with Eduardo and then Eduardo and an assistant is now a little legal army.

We’ve reached that point where I don’t talk to everyone. Kind of sad on one level. But what a milestone.

Very proud of this.

Never in my wildest dreams when I arrived 20 years ago and was working at Dunkin Donuts for 5.15 dollars an hour (plus the change in the tip jar) could I have imagined this point in my career.

Not to mention the potential of the Ayala brand today and the accelerated growth it is experiencing.

Immigrants are good people. Immigrants create jobs.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

GOP Governor of Vermont

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Spoke to a friend yesterday--a 30-year police veteran--who had seen the video from MN. "No one in law enforcement would tell you what we saw on that video was proper procedure. It's insulting to real law enforcement folks to say it was. Those guys are out of control."

[Carlos Alcaraz @carlosalcaraz]

Es muy difícil para mí escribir este post… Tras más de siete años juntos, Juanki y yo hemos decidido poner fin a nuestra etapa juntos como entrenador y jugador.

Gracias por haber hecho de sueños de niño, realidades. Empezamos este camino cuando apenas era un chaval, y durante todo este tiempo me has acompañado en un viaje increíble, dentro y fuera de la pista. Y he disfrutado muchísimo de cada paso contigo.

Hemos conseguido llegar a la cima, y siento que, si nuestros caminos deportivos tenían que separarse, debía ser desde ahí arriba. Desde el lugar por el que siempre trabajamos y al que siempre aspiramos llegar.

Son tantos los recuerdos que me vienen a la cabeza que quedarme solo con uno no sería justo. Me has hecho crecer como deportista, pero sobre todo como persona. Y algo que valoro muchísimo: he disfrutado del proceso. Me quedo con eso, con el camino recorrido juntos.

Ahora llegan tiempos de cambio para los dos, nuevas aventuras y nuevos proyectos. Pero tengo la certeza de que los afrontaremos de la manera correcta, dando lo mejor de nosotros, como siempre hemos hecho. Siempre sumando.

Te deseo lo mejor de corazón en todo lo que venga. Me quedo con la tranquilidad de saber que no nos hemos dejado nada por dar, que lo hemos puesto todo a disposición del otro.

Gracias por todo, Juanki! ❤️

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Against the average lawyer, pro se litigants stand little to no chance, even in the age of ChatGPT. And it has to do, mainly, with procedure and the language of litigation. We speak a different language.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

If I had to start a law firm all over again. I would pick a single practice area and promote the heck out of it.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Zelensky, the ELECTED leader of a free country, should not be expected to kiss the ass of the toddler. His people expect
Him to be strong.

Trump would have fled where Zelensky stayed and fought.

Trump is the worst negotiator

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today.

And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Verdict on all counts for my client. A hard worker, owner of a small barbershop in little Havana.

The case was not perfect but I believed in his story. I believed he had done the right thing. So I decided to represent him. I never thought this small case would make it to trial, but it did.

My litigation philosophy has always been: we are always trial-ready, perfect or imperfect case. We don’t shy away. You have to be able to win with little resources.

Thankfully, the jury agreed with us.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

[Sen. Susan Collins @SenatorCollins]

After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. While I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment to our servicemembers and their families, I am concerned that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary to succeed in the job.

Our military is under tremendous pressure right now. Active conflicts in the Middle East and Europe combined with escalating threats in the Pacific, all against a backdrop of severe financial challenges and four years of ineffective leadership by the Biden Administration, make this an especially critical time for those who lead our military. The next Secretary of Defense will be responsible for managing a massive bureaucracy that includes nearly three million employees and a budget of nearly $850 billion. In addition, our next Secretary faces long-standing procurement and supply issues that continued to worsen under the Biden Administration.

In sum, the Secretary is going to be facing a number of incredibly complex problems that are going to require highly skilled management ability. I am concerned that Mr. Hegseth does not have the management experience and background that he will need in order to tackle these difficulties. His limited managerial experience involved running two small non-profit organizations that had decidedly mixed results.

I am also concerned about multiple statements, including some in the months just before he was nominated, that Mr. Hegseth has made about women serving in the military. He and I had a candid conversation in December about his past statements and apparently evolving views. I am not convinced that his position on women serving in combat roles has changed.

Women comprise nearly 18 percent of our active-duty military. They continue to make critical and valuable contributions to our national defense. I have long advocated that women who wish to serve in and can meet the rigorous standards of combat roles should be able to do so. And numerous women have proved that they can accomplish this difficult feat.

Currently, thousands of women are serving in combat roles and many others serve in non-combat functions. Their service is essential to the success of our military.

Mr. Hegseth also appears to lack a sufficient appreciation for some of the policies that the military is required to follow because they are codified in the laws of the United States of America. While I understand his points on the importance of up-to-date and workable rules of engagement, our prohibitions against torture come from American laws and treaties ratified by the United States, including the Geneva Conventions.

Therefore, I will vote against the nomination.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Pet Peeve: document titles with more than 5 words in it.

It's a title. Not an essay.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Tomas Machac. New favorite player. Very Alcaraz like.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Jesus Christ what a badass first page

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

Do complex things. Live a simple life. That’s it.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

On a day like today, 13 years ago, I was admitted to The Florida Bar.

[Eduardo Ayala Maura @eamaura]

In order to see what others don’t see you have to first see all of the things that average people see.