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		<title>&#8216;Commencement 2009&#8242;, Print Version</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/11/commencement-2009-print-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who&#8217;ve been searching for the &#8220;Commencement 2009&#8243; piece, below is a link to the four parts of it, in one continuous PDF file. People seem to really like this thing, so we threw all of the installments into one document, for easier printing and reading.
I&#8217;m told this piece circulates a lot. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re Not Getting Laid Because&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/youre-not-getting-laid-because/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s quick, as I&#8217;m hopefully watching the Phillies take a two game lead on the Yankees. (That I view a big chunk of its legal community as one might a festering STD doesn&#8217;t sour me entirely against the city.  And really, who the hell can be Yankee fan with that payroll? It&#8217;s like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Think Work Sucks? The Philadelphia Lawyer Agrees.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s Note: As you may have heard, Rudius Media is discontinuing hosting of the majority of its websites. New traditional material will be up when this site is on its new server next week. More details on that to come.
This piece is short, a link to one of a few interviews I&#8217;ve done over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crowd for Radio</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/a-crowd-for-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And you may ask yourself-well&#8230;how did I get here? &#8211; Talking Heads, &#8220;Once in a Lifetime&#8221; 
That line played in my head a lot during my tour of the legal industry in Philadelphia.  But never with more of a hook, or greater gravity, than during an odd moment where, for reasons I can&#8217;t explain, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Ordering Triples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You like drinking? Hell, you like drinking.  Who the hell don&#8217;t? - Uncle Jemima*
I obviously do. The cover of the book makes that pretty clear (or the pieces I&#8217;ve done on bourbon and gin). And when I drink, I prefer to do it for real.  I don&#8217;t want wine with dinner, mimosas with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lit Up in Stiff City</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/lit-up-in-stiff-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Scratch any cynic and you&#8217;ll find a disappointed idealist.&#8221; Carlin nailed that one on the head.  But he should have taken it further. Scratch the pious and you&#8217;ll find a deviant. Scratch the flirty and you&#8217;ll find a lousy lay. The teetotaler and you&#8217;ll find a closeted solvent sniffer, the liberal and you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;2400 Hours.&#8221; And a Review</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/2400-hours-and-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got two things today.  The first is a slice of Happy Hour is for Amateurs dealing with the bane of every associate&#8217;s existence, and every client&#8217;s pocketbook &#8211; billable hours. If you know anything about the legal profession, you&#8217;ve heard how they&#8217;re routinely inflated.  Heard of the studies showing that 20, 30% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakfast with Napoleon</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/breakfast-with-napoleon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hall hath no fury like a spurned woman,&#8221; the old saying goes.  And &#8220;Hell hath no fury like a spurned bureaucrat,&#8221; Milton Friedman famously corrected.  I&#8217;d agree that both are damn angry sorts, but neither, I think, is the worst.  There&#8217;s an animal far more annoying, more petty, nasty and grating &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden Asshole Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/sudden-asshole-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece of Happy Hour is for Amateurs deals with an exceedingly common subject &#8211; the boss who lives to torture his workers.  But as much as we&#8217;ve all known his kind, toiled under his constant irritation, the question is, What do you call him?  You can spot what makes him what he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-to-1</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/3-to-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This slice of Happy Hour is for Amateurs covers something I&#8217;ve talked about in the past &#8211; the &#8220;3:1 Ratio.&#8221;  Something everyone from twenty-two to forty will recognize.  Well, everyone who values his or her time&#8230; who demands that every hour in the office be matched by, or obliterated from memory with, an [...]]]></description>
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