Mr. Kessel earned his Juris Doctor from Barry University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in 2020 – the product of five years of intensive legal education that set him apart before he ever entered a courtroom. While most law students focused exclusively on academics, Mr. Kessel was simultaneously working inside a litigation firm, learning the craft of trial practice from an experienced trial attorney. That hands-on foundation gave him something that cannot be taught in a classroom: the instincts and composure that high-stakes courtroom work demands.
Beyond his formal education, Mr. Kessel devoted tens of thousands of hours to studying the greatest trial attorneys in history – consuming every book, dissecting every available video, and analyzing every transcript he could find. His influences include Irving Younger, Lloyd Paul Stryker, Melvin Belli, Gerry Spence, Sir Thomas Erskine, and F. Lee Bailey. From that depth of study, he built a litigation style that is entirely his own: aggressive, precise, and built to win.
It was during those law school years that Mr. Kessel’s cross-examination style first announced itself. His relentless, commanding approach in mock trial proceedings earned him two nicknames that followed him into his professional career: “The Train” and “The Bull.”
