What Should Be in a New Lawyer’s Bucket List

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We get a lot of questions faxed to us about what a new lawyer should accomplish in his or her first few years of practice. With hordes of new law school graduates striking out to be lawyers and retail specialists, it’s a good question. And it may surprise you that the answers are fairly simple. Like these.
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A Sphincter of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Inventing Lawyer Mobs

When it gets really hot here in Minnesota, which happens every twenty years or so, lawyers stay indoors and work from their lakeside cabins. Which leads to a thing we call cabin fever. The Big Legal Brain crew is no exception.

With temperatures above 100 degrees, we spent the better part of the last two days at the corporate lakeside cabin, shouting out the names of various “lawyer mobs,” in between playing a bang up game of Settlers of Catan.

Some of our favorite lawyer mobs:
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