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		<title>A Crowd for Radio</title>
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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>Lit Up in Stiff City</title>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>1998</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I set out to write Happy Hour is for Amateurs, there weren&#8217;t any gimmicks to the book.  No clever marketing bullshit, just exactly what the Author&#8217;s Note says:
[A] funny riff on a funny time that happens to have some important points jammed in the mix&#8211; the written version of the discussion we might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier, Conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But we&#8217;re not here to judge you/We want to be your friends now/And we can make you feel like everything that&#8217;s gone wrong&#8230; it happened for a reason.
&#8220;Nothing is Wrong,&#8221; Gomez, Split the Difference (2004) 
&#8220;What?  What&#8217;s your problem?&#8221;
&#8220;My problem?  You&#8217;ve got the fucking problems!&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re a head case, you know that?&#8221;
The shouting came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Types of Women You&#8217;ll Sleep with in Law School</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/10/the-seven-types-of-women-youll-sleep-with-in-law-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies on delays in posting.  The final piece of L&#8217;esprit de L&#8217;escalier is almost done and will be up soon.  I was pulled out of town for week and, unexpectedly, not able to write while I was away.  (Surreal moment: Watching that awful Penn State v. Iowa game in a bar next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier, Part III</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/09/lesprit-de-lescalier-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernice and I hit it off from there.  She&#8217;d known all of Jerry&#8217;s friends well, well enough to focus on me, as somebody new to explore.  Damned if I knew all we said.  It was one bar after another, each getting louder than the last.  Then some basement joint in the [...]]]></description>
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