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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, I [...]]]></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 a [...]]]></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% of lawyers [...]]]></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; insufferably, perpetually infuriating. [...]]]></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 is. The [...]]]></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 equivalent hour [...]]]></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>Olde English Advocacy (Nuggets, Vol. XV)</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/08/olde-english-advocacy-nuggets-vol-xv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A riff on the difference between narratives and alibis, and a bit of juvenile delinquency, cut from Happy Hour is for Amateurs: You can&#8217;t succeed in law without lying. It&#8217;s just a simple fact. But you also can&#8217;t make things up. How do you thread the needle? With something we know as the &#8220;narrative.&#8221; One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwalking Through Work (Nuggets, Vol. XIV)</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/06/sleepwalking-through-work-nuggets-vol-xiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an outtake from the initial draft of Happy Hour is for Amateurs addressing a subject with which most of us who work in offices for any length of time are quite familiar &#8211; daydreaming through your job. Most think it&#8217;s a simple reaction to boredom. I agree, but I also think it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorm Moles (Nuggets, Vol. XIII)</title>
		<link>http://philalawyer.net/2009/03/dorm-moles-nuggets-vol-xiii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s Note: Describing the typical &#8220;cut throat&#8221; or uber-law student was one of the hardest challenges in the book. We chose to go with something called an &#8220;Angry Insignificant,&#8221; but there were many other descriptions. Here&#8217;s one anybody who&#8217;s been in the delivery business, or a waiter, will probably recognize. It&#8217;s said a legal education [...]]]></description>
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