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		<title>E-Mail Tips From a New York Judge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Judge Gerald Lebovits has written a fairly comprehensive article regarding how lawyers should utilize email. The article, entitled E-Mail Netiquette for Lawyers, appears in the November/December 2009 New York State Bar Association Journal. The article is a bit overly cautious when addressing how one should send emails. If you were to go through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1761</link>
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		<title>Is Your Degree Worth It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a month long hiatus, we are back with a question that each reader has probably asked themselves at one point or another. Was it worth it? According to Karen Sloan, you should proceed with caution to law school. However, students don&#8217;t seem to be listening. Applications to law schools accredited by the ABA increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABA Continues to Push for Loan Relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the National Law Journal, ABA President Carolyn Lamm said last week that the association is still trying to build support for student-loan relief for recent graduates. The National Law Journal reported in November that the ABA was lobbying the Obama administration on the issue, highlighting the plight of graduates who went into debt but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuban Allowed Discovery in Pursuit of Attorney&#8217;s Fees from SEC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas said in a Dec. 4 order that billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban may seek documents and other information from the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to force the agency to pay his attorney&#8217;s fees after their insider-trading lawsuit was dismissed.
Cuban can conduct discovery over the legal-fees question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1738</link>
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		<title>Is Google Taking on Lexis and Westlaw?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Google announced today that they will begin providing full text case law free of charge using their Google Scholar search engine. It is still way too early to determine if this begins to take a bite out of the profits of the sites that charge for legal research, but if anyone were to pose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1725</link>
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		<title>ABA Law Loans Proposal Needs More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No other topic is more dear to a recently admitted attorney&#8217;s heart than student loans. They are both the key to getting one&#8217;s license, but also an albatross for those forced to borrow. For those that took the initial taste from the government and went back to private lenders for more, the pain is even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1720</link>
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		<title>Federal Bar Exam: Coming to a State Near You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine taking a single bar exam for each of the fifty states. Imagine wanting to move from Texas to California without having to worry about sitting for another three day test. Think you&#8217;re dreaming? Well your dream might be closer to reality than you think.
By 2010 at least 10 states are going to be switching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1713</link>
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		<title>From Law to Love: Texas Attorney Starts Matchmaking Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After numerous friends shared their internet dating horror stories with him, Dallas attorney Randy Block saw an opportunity.
“Somehow these impersonal computer programs have taken over, using microchips for matching,” Block said. “And I kept hearing from professionals that they did not want their photos and profiles on the internet for all the world to see.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1694</link>
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		<title>What do you want to be when you grow up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve lost your job. So you still don&#8217;t have a job offer. So you don&#8217;t have recruiters banging down your door. So what? Sometimes you have to think outside the box. An attorney&#8217;s skill set is not limited to one industry or one job.
David E. Behrend of Career Planning Services for Lawyers agrees that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1563</link>
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		<title>Learn From the Facebook Mistakes of Those Before You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have discussed social networking in many forms here at YTL, and Above the Law has a fantastic article about social networking horror stories. Below are some excerpts and we recommend you read the full article. You generally should not say anything on these sites that you wouldn&#8217;t scream in public, but you should also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1681</link>
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		<title>10 Tips to Survive the Downturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Legal Intelligencer, comes an article about staying on top in a down economy and although most of the information is intuitive, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to have it in a short concise list.

Be the best lawyer you can be
Be respectful, conscientious, polite, and courteous to everybody
Bill, baby, bill
Don&#8217;t be a downer
Stay away from troublemakers
Become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1678</link>
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		<title>UT Law OCI &#8216;Great for Employers&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above the Law has a very telling story about a law students experience at UT OCI. To quote their source:

I am walking up the stairs to get to my OCI appointment. I overhear some interviewers from various firms talking to each other as I hold the door for them and their heavy bags of firm-branded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1673</link>
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		<title>Sotomayor Confirmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation&#8217;s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come. The third woman in court history, she&#8217;ll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by a Democrat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1670</link>
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		<title>Best Blackberry Apps for Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most attorneys these days are carrying Blackberry smart phones to help them stay organized, keep in touch, and access the internet on the go. Although the iPhone has started to make its way into the legal marketplace, it still hasn&#8217;t seemed to get the job done for what lawyers need on a daily basis. Recently, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1660</link>
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		<title>Thinking Outside the Box: Starting a Law Firm on Craigslist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four months ago, Afif Ghannoum, a 29-year-old attorney launched The Ghannoum Law Firm. The firm focuses almost exclusively on transactions and intellectual property for the biotechnology industry. What sets them apart is the way the firm started. Ghannoum used Craigslist to help launch his firm by advertising for potential partner-level attorneys. His Craigslist post received nearly 500 responses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1651</link>
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		<title>Eight Reasons AGAINST Attending Law School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A blogger by the name of H. Luiz has come up with an interesting list outlining his reasons that one should not go to law school. Some of it is true and some of it is not, and below you&#8217;ll find YTL&#8217;s take on these reasons:

Financial suicide

I will somewhat agree with this one, but depending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1646</link>
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		<title>Perot v. Cuban: Hillwood Sues Dallas Mavericks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is accused of wrongfully diverting millions of dollars from the NBA franchise’s home arena to help make up for cash shortfalls incurred by the team, according to a lawsuit filed by a company controlled by the team’s former owner.
The lawsuit claims Cuban covered the Mavericks’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1632</link>
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		<title>Corporate Representative Depositions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a company may be served with a 30(b)(6) deposition notice which will require a corporate representative to testify on behalf of the corporation. It is a powerful tool that allows requires the corporation to respond to questions regarding specific topics contained in the notice. It is then the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1580</link>
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		<title>Be More Like The Swimming Duck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very successful attorney once told me that I should always act like a &#8220;duck swimming.&#8221; I was taken aback by the exact meaning of this, but luckily he went on to explain that ducks swim gracefully over a pond with no indication of the madness that is occurring under water. When you see the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=870</link>
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		<title>Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Begin Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The confirmation hearings for Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor begin today at 9 a.m., and they are expected to last through the week. Sotomayor has already received the top rating from the American Bar Association, and polls show a slim majority of Americans believe she should be confirmed to be an Associate Justice of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1616</link>
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		<title>Mountain of Debt Crushes Character and Fitness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Times, Robert Bowman will not be permitted to practice to law in the state of New York after taking four tries to pass the bar exam. The problem seems to be the roughly $400,000 in student loan debt that he has accumulated through the years.
The committee that reviews applications for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1610</link>
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		<title>The Best Advice They Ever Got&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fortune online has a great article about advice that most influenced some very accomplished individuals&#8217; lives. As they put it, &#8220;in a world of uncertainty, we could all use a little advice.&#8221; Some are mere cliches, but they make for a good read and provide some invaluable information.
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		<title>Texas Deans Discuss Law School Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Texas Bar Blog writes, three Texas law school deans were present for a discussion on the future of legal education last Thursday at the State Bar of Texas&#8217; Annual Meeting. Texas deans Larry Sager from The University of Texas Law School, John Attanasio of Southern Methodist University, and Brad Toben of Baylor Law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1583</link>
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		<title>Lawyers “barely above car salesmen and journalists in public esteem.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To all the young lawyers in the Houston area, I say this: Rick Casey is giving us all a bad name. In his June 23 column, No defense: ‘My lawyer said I could,’ he takes Harris County district clerk Charles Bacarisse to task for the sin of having consulted an attorney.
The implication of Mr. Casey’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1565</link>
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		<title>Follow YTL on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Young Texas Lawyer has finally joined the Twitter revolution and will begin Tweeting as of today. All new blog posts will be synchronized with the youngTXlawyer Twitter page. This will be a much more interactive forum for young attorneys to begin sharing information and experiences.
Be sure to follow us and stay active!
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1567</link>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Help With Student Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2008 we discussed how to “Take Control of Student Loans” and one of the programs discussed was the upcoming federal loan forgiveness and income based repayment programs. Starting July 1, they will both be in full effect. The College Cost Reduction &#38; Access Act, the new federal program, will cap monthly loan payments according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1554</link>
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		<title>Social Networking &amp; Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As more people begin posting personal information on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, lawyers are beginning to realize that access to such sites can become a big advantage. These pages contain a variety of personal facts, pictures, videos, and sometimes even a user&#8217;s state of mind. Utilizing proper discovery is essential to uncovering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=819</link>
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		<title>What is a Fishing Expedition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony H. Lowenberg writes an informative article on the ins and outs of the commonly used &#8216;fishing expedition&#8217; objection. Essentially this objection is made when an overly broad discovery request is made for information or documents that are not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. When a request is so broad that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1530</link>
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		<title>Make Sure You Are Grooming and Being Groomed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel Rose of the The Legal Intelligencer writes that &#8220;failure to train younger lawyers as managers in both the business and the practice of law can have disastrous results.&#8221; His article goes on to discuss how firms can better train their young attorneys, but only briefly touches on why it can be &#8220;disastrous.&#8221;
One of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1521</link>
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		<title>Knowledge Sharing Between the Generational Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ari Kaplan, author of The Opportunity Marker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development, has written a fantastic article on leveraging the millennial generation&#8217;s knowledge of technology. Some of Mr. Kaplan&#8217;s suggestions include having partners and associates sit down together and discuss Web 2.0 and social networking sites, such as LinkedIn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1510</link>
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		<title>Former Texas Chief Justice Discusses Caperton Ruling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Texas supreme court chief justice Thomas Phillips sat down with The Blog of Legal Times and discussed the recent Caperton ruling in which the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, said the constitutional right to due process sometimes may require an elected judge to recuse in a case involving a campaign benefactor. The ruling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1486</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Get a Life&#8217; Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, the Total Practice Management Association hosted the &#8220;Get a Life Conference.&#8221; The focus was on the use of technology and other resources to make your life as an attorney more efficient. The overall content of the conference was geared more towards solo and small firm practitioners, but the message was still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1439</link>
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		<title>Blood Search Warrants go Full Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in April, we wrote about the &#8220;no-refusal&#8221; weekends during which the police department keeps judges on standby late into the night to issue warrants allowing them to draw blood for DWI suspects. This process will soon become standard operating procedure in Texas.
The Texas legislature passed key legislation during their last session that relaxed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1440</link>
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		<title>Unemployment Rate Hits 9.4%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years. But the good news is, if you can call it that, the pace of layoffs eased with employers cutting 345,000 jobs, the fewest since September.
This is both good news and bad news. Things won&#8217;t turn around until the layoffs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get to Work Early, Even if There is Nothing to Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above the Law, has a great piece on the antiquated issue of what time one arrives at the office and Morrison &#38; Foerster New York managing partner Charles Kerr&#8217;s memo on the subject. Mr. Kerr sent out a fairly condescending memo complaining about what time associates were getting into the office (full memo here). His [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1446</link>
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		<title>Loan Forgiveness Programs in Trouble?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2008 we discussed how to &#8220;Take Control of Student Loans&#8221; and one of the programs discussed was the government&#8217;s loan forgiveness program. Now it appears that those programs might not be as safe as once thought. According to the New York Times, students relying on those forgiveness programs are worried that they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1433</link>
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		<title>Fixing the Defense Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks, the Houston Chronicle has been reporting about the shortcomings of the current court appointment system in the Houston area. Specifically, the paper has brought to light the fact that capital defenders are taking too many cases and spreading themselves far too thin.
Here’s a remedy: (1) stop giving the same attorneys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1414</link>
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		<title>Earn Free CLE in Dallas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judges needed for 5th Annual Summer Mock Trial Competition in Dallas 
Teams: This year&#8217;s competition features 12 teams from SMU, Baylor, South Texas, LSU and Texas Wesleyan.
Rounds: The rounds will last about 2 hours.
Friday, June 19 at 6pm
Saturday, June 20 at 9am
Saturday, June 20 at 2pm
Sunday, June 21 at 9am
Sunday, June 21 at 2pm (presided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1423</link>
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		<title>The Ultimate Interview Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Online University Lowdown for putting together an expansive list of &#8220;100 Essential Tools and Resources&#8221; for doing well in legal job interviews. According to the article, &#8220;whether you are a law student or a seasoned professional, you are sure to find something useful for that next interview with these 100 sites, guides, eBooks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1417</link>
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		<title>Twitter Accounts for Lawyers to Follow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is a microblogging site that has garnered a fair amount of attention lately by the media and to a certain extent, the legal industry. The site&#8217;s entire concept is based on asking a user &#8220;what are you doing&#8221; and allowing them update their answer to this question throughout the day from a computer or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1382</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court Pick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, President Obama will announce federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court today. If confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic to serve on the high court.
She is a self-described &#8220;Newyorkrican&#8221; who grew up in a Bronx housing project after her parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1391</link>
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		<title>Texas AG&#8217;s Office In Some Hot Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Texas Lawyer&#8230; A former assistant attorney general alleges in a whistleblower suit filed May 18 that the Texas Office of the Attorney General fired her in 2008 for reporting that two OAG attorneys in the Dallas child support office tried &#8220;to suborn perjured testimony&#8221; from her about a Dallas judge.
Ginger Weatherspoon, who worked in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1384</link>
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		<title>Ethical Concerns Regarding Social Networking Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The growing trend among private and public enterprise has been to reduce the number of controversies created by their employees&#8217; behavior on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Not only are they embarrassing to those involved, but they&#8217;re simply bad for business.
In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Bar Association&#8217;s Professional Guidance Committee has issued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1345</link>
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		<title>Dean&#8217;s Tips for New Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the State Bar of Texas Blog and Arturo Errisuriz, Assistant Dean for Career Services at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law:

Find a mentor, either within your firm or in the legal community; your mentor should be someone with professional experience who is willing to share it.
 Join your local bar association and sister bars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1373</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Out-of-Office&#8221; Not Acceptable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A partner in Cleary Gottlieb Steen &#38; Hamilton&#8217;s London office sent an e-mail to the firm&#8217;s London-based attorneys informing them that &#8221;out-of-office&#8221; replies are unacceptable and they should always be available to answer e-mails or at least arrange for a colleague to answer messages when they are truly unreachable. He went on to write that the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1364</link>
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		<title>How to Treat Others at a Law Firm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article for Texas Lawyer, Nelia Robbi writes that &#8220;new associates can go far by being themselves.&#8221; This probably doesn&#8217;t hold true for some young attorneys that are just bad people in general. But regardless of whether you agree with her assessment, she has some good practical advice on how you should treat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1336</link>
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		<title>K&amp;L Gates Loses Status With Microsoft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, YTL contributing author Sana Naeem explored the notion of family members as clients. This month, K&#38;L Gates, named for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates&#8217; father, has lost its status as one of Microsoft&#8217;s preferred legal providers. Although the process by which Microsoft hires legal counsel is probably very different from that of Sana&#8217;s Aunt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1320</link>
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		<title>Your Fellow Young Texas Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 11, 2009, the Texas Bar interviewed new lawyers at the induction ceremony at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin to determine what their plans were for their new careers. The responses are below.

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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1310</link>
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		<title>UNT Law School Wins House Approval</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Dallas Morning News&#8230; Dallas will be home to the state&#8217;s next public law school under a bill that won tentative House approval today.
Budget woes mean funding for the law school remains uncertain, at least for the next two years. At that point, officials could come back to the Legislature again for funding, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1314</link>
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		<title>Blood Diamonds: First Year Associates Will Feel The Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by The Legal Intelligencer, law firms are shifting from a &#8220;pyramid&#8221; business model to more of a &#8220;diamond&#8221; business model, meaning a higher ratio of partners to associates and further de-leveraging. The axe will continue to fall on many young lawyers in order to clear some of the glut that is already in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1299</link>
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		<title>No Mailbox Rule for Post Office?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Legal Intelligencer&#8230;
If you&#8217;re filing a claim against the postal service, don&#8217;t just drop it in the mail because the courts won&#8217;t apply the ordinary presumption that a letter mailed is a letter received.
In a holding fraught with irony, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared in Lightfoot v. United States that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1292</link>
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		<title>Free Case Law Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are the top 10 free case law sites courtesy of Law Technology News:

Fastcase &#38; Casemaker (These are only free through your state bar)
FindACase
PreCYdent
The Public Library of Law
AltLaw
Justia
FindLaw
Public.Resource.Org
LexisONE
Legal Information Institute

For a complete run down of the sites check out the article linked above.
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		<title>Advice for Young Texas Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Timeless advice for young Texas lawyers from the 2004 Texas Bar Annual Meeting and brought to you by the Texas Bar Blog.


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		<title>Laid Off Before You Even Start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The American Lawyer, New York firm Stroock &#38; Stroock &#38; Lavan is offering students the option to take a severance package before even working at the firm for a single minute. Students who agree to sever ties and not join the firm will receive a $75,000 payout. In a letter to new associates, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1260</link>
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		<title>CNN Visits Texas Over Lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper 360 will visit the Texas town of Tenaha, the subject of a recent Eastern District of Texas lawsuit, Morrow, et al. v. Washington, et al. The plaintiff&#8217;s allege that police in this small town are pulling them over for minor infractions and end up in what results in a shakedown. Allegedly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1254</link>
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		<title>Downturn May Be Uptick for Contract Attorneys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The National Law Journal&#8230; the economic turmoil also has stirred up positive changes to traditional contract services, creating some new twists on the temporary attorney industry.
&#8220;Law firms are re-imagining how to use lawyer talent,&#8221; said James Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement.
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1194</link>
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		<title>The Law Firm Business Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we wrote back in February, there are inherent problems with the billable hour. Now, according to Forbes magazine, there are actually changes in the fee structure of law firms. The ever evolving financial crisis has reshaped many businesses and law firms are starting to see that they must change as a result. The freezing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1155</link>
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		<title>Justice Souter to Retire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the AP, Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court. Souter, 69, will leave the Supreme Court after the current term recesses in June. The AP has already speculated on a list of possible nominees. For more information, read the article from The National Law Journal.
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1172</link>
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		<title>A Nation of Laws, and Not of Men &#8211; Happy Law Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today our nation, and by our nation I mean some of the legal community, celebrates &#8220;Law Day,&#8221; and what better way to celebrate than to tell you why lawyers are great. Carolyn Elefant, examines &#8220;Why Lawyers Rule the U.S. and What It Says About Our Culture&#8221; and in her findings she determines that lawyers are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1156</link>
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		<title>AmLaw 100 Financials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since 1991, profits-per-partner and revenue-per-lawyer were both down in 2008 for the AmLaw 100 firms. With the continued weakness these firms have seen through the first part of 2009, it looks like they will have another drop in both categories. The WSJ Law Blog sat down with AmLaw Editor-in-Chief Aric Press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1151</link>
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		<title>Navigating The &#8216;Deep Web&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike surface web, deep web describes the portion of the World Wide Web that is not visible to the public or has not been indexed by search engines. Experts estimate that the deep web is about 500 times larger than the surface web. Some portions of the deep web consist of dynamic pages accessible only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=975</link>
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		<title>Dallas DNA Premieres Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we pointed out in our earlier post, &#8220;Dallas County&#8217;s DNA DA,&#8221; the Dallas County District Attorney will be featured in a new Investigation Discovery channel mini series called &#8220;Dallas DNA.&#8221; The show premieres tonight at 9 pm CT and follows the work of the Conviction Integrity Unit of the DA&#8217;s office.
Regardless of your feelings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1139</link>
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		<title>When Aunt Agnes is Your Only Client&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months after passing the bar, young Texas lawyers Jennifer Regueiro and Sana Naeem have set off to start their own law firm, Naeem &#38; Regueiro, PLLC. They’ve been operational for only a few months and have agreed to let YTL have a peak into their experiences while “flying solo.”
In starting out, we have relied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1125</link>
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		<title>Facebook Is Not for Professional Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook should be used for personal networking and LinkedIn should be used for professional networking. Do not add your co-workers as Facebook friends. If they get upset then tell them that you keep Facebook strictly for your personal life. It is too easy for you to be ruined via Facebook because of the nature of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1114</link>
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		<title>Tell Us Something We Don&#8217;t Know&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Law Journal, &#8220;Job Anxiety Grips Graduating Law School Students.&#8221;
With layoffs looming, it&#8217;s only natural that those awaiting to become lawyers have more to worry about. Odds are the offers will dwindle and the paychecks will get smaller. There is little that any single person can do about the economy, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=992</link>
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		<title>UNT Law School Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Unfair Park points out, the proposed UNT Law School backers are &#8220;working overtime to get the entire state Legislature behind the idea&#8221; and today&#8217;s Austin American-Statesman has an op-ed piece by the new school&#8217;s biggest proponents. There are even whispers that there might be a mass exodus of SMU Law professors to the proposed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1022</link>
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		<title>Law School Rankings Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve probably read everywhere else, U.S. News &#38; World Report has released its annual law school rankings. Not much has changed and the rankings to mean much to most people, but nonetheless they&#8217;re linked to above.
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1099</link>
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		<title>UT Law Gets Proactive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a statement released today, &#8221;The University of Texas School of Law (UT Law) is proud to announce the Long Career Launch Program, which is designed to make it financially possible for our recent graduates to obtain legal work experience in unpaid internships while they are awaiting bar results and looking for permanent employment. Graduates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1014</link>
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		<title>Big Firm Perks, Big Gov Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tex Parte has a great piece about volunteer attorneys in Houston that are allowed to prosecute municipal court cases once a week. It&#8217;s an interesting concept, especially in slow economic times. Both the lawyers and the taxpayer benefit, as the article points out:
It’s a win/win for everyone, except perhaps the people who decide to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=1005</link>
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		<title>Judge Orders Bush Deposition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Tex Parte&#8230;
On April 17, 68th District Judge Martin J. Hoffman of Dallas issued an order compelling former President George W. Bush to testify in a deposition. According to Hoffman&#8217;s order, Vodicka and intervenor Robert Tafel allege in Gary Vodicka, et al. v. Southern Methodist University, et al. that SMU and the school&#8217;s emissaries were involved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=976</link>
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		<title>Texas Cities Best For Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Dallas Morning News&#8230;
Texas cities dominate a new list of the best places for jobs, with the top five large metropolitan areas for job growth all located in the Lone Star State, according to Forbes magazine.
Nine of the top 20 cities on Forbes&#8217; overall list are in Texas, with Odessa ranked No. 1. Dallas-Plano-Irving ranked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=969</link>
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		<title>Naeem &amp; Rugueiro RAW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months after passing the bar, young Texas lawyers Jennifer Regueiro and Sana Naeem have set off to start their own law firm, Naeem &#38; Regueiro, PLLC. They’ve been operational for almost two months and have agreed to let YTL have a peak into their experiences while “flying solo.”
Breathe. Deep breaths. What have I gotten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=958</link>
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		<title>Perry Mason Arrested in Houston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Houston Chronicle&#8230;
A Houston man named Perry Mason was arrested on Tuesday, accused of practicing law without a license, officials at the Harris County District Attorney’s office said.
Spokeswoman Donna Hawkins said the 43-year-old has been charged with barratry, a third-degree felony. She said no other details were immediately available.
According to Texas Bar records, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=951</link>
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		<title>Pay Your Loans or Get Disbarred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Hopefully this isn&#8217;t news to anyone, because it is a serious matter. The only thing worse than having a mountain of law school debt is having a mountain of law school debt and no license to practice law.
A Texas appeals court has revoked the license of Houston attorney Frank P. Santulli III for failing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=904</link>
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		<title>Dallas County&#8217;s DNA DA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investigation Discovery will be airing Dallas DNA, a six part mini series that profiles the work of Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins and his &#8220;Conviction Integrity Unit,&#8221; on April 28th at 9PM CDT.

The newly elected Watkins established the Conviction Integrity Unit in 2007 and the unit oversees the post-conviction review of over 400 DNA cases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=925</link>
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		<title>Advice for Young Trial Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seasoned Houston trial lawyers Paul Yetter and David Bissinger debunk some common trial myths in their Texas Lawyer article, &#8220;First, Do No Harm.&#8221; The myths and a summary are below, but you should definitely read the full article, it contains some great advice.

Myth 1: Know every fact

Know the relevant facts


Myth 2: Be spontaneous

Preparation is everything


Myth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=901</link>
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		<title>Deep in the Trenches of Phase 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months after passing the bar, young Texas lawyers Jennifer Regueiro and Sana Naeem have set off to start their own law firm, Naeem &#38; Regueiro, PLLC. They&#8217;ve been operational for almost two months and have agreed to let YTL have a peak into their experiences while &#8220;flying solo.&#8221;
 
Phase 1 &#8211; start a law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=852</link>
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		<title>Pay Attention to Detail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard this time and time again, but it&#8217;s worth saying one more time&#8230; pay attention to detail!
You don&#8217;t want to end up like the Wisconsin lawyer who made the appeals court so angry that they fined him $500, asked for an investigation into his conduct and gave him tips on proofreading. Oh, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=849</link>
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		<title>Diversify Your Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout this financial crisis we have heard the experts talk about diversification and making sure that your investments are not concentrated in a single sector or investment vehicle. The same holds true for your career. After all, you have invested an enormous amount of money and time to become a lawyer.
Why put all your eggs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=823</link>
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		<title>Handling An Experienced Adversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point in your career, you will go up against someone that will be better than you in every sense of the word. There&#8217;s only one way to beat someone like this&#8230; work your butt off. Your opponent&#8217;s credentials and actions are outside of your control. You can only worry about yourself. Forget about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=786</link>
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		<title>Blood Warrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last year, police departments throughout the state have experimented with a program called &#8220;no-refusal.&#8221; No-refusal weekends are those in which the police will have judges on standby to sign search warrants that will allow officers to draw blood from drivers in custody on suspicion of DWI, whether they like it or not. According to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=795</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s in Charge of the Parachute?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months after passing the bar, young Texas lawyers Jennifer Regueiro and Sana Naeem have set off to start their own law firm, Naeem &#38; Regueiro, PLLC. They&#8217;ve been operational for almost two months and have agreed to let YTL have a peak into their experiences while &#8220;flying solo.&#8221;
So this is freedom?  More like free-falling. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=776</link>
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		<title>John Quinn&#8217;s Tips for Young Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ashby Jones of The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Law Blog recently sat down with Quinn Emanuel&#8217;s John Quinn, one of the founders of the Los Angeles based litigation powerhouse, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver &#38; Hedges. The 400-lawyer firm&#8217;s Quinn had some very practical tips for young attorneys&#8230;

John, you said earlier in the conversation that you were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=771</link>
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		<title>On Not Embarrassing Oneself&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a piece posted here last week with tips on being a great lawyer.  I have always tried to bring into my professional life the things that make one a decent person: keeping my word, not holding too many grudges, maintaining personal integrity.
But there is one tip I was given by one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=766</link>
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		<title>What is Fannie Mae?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, a group of investors filed suit against Fannie Mae, then a publicly traded company, for claims arising out of an accounting scandal. However now, no one really knows what type of entity Fannie Mae is. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has already forced the question [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=759</link>
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		<title>Dallas Event:  Transitioning Your Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday, March 26th, Performance Legal Placement and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers have assembled a group of panelists that will offer real guidance on how to transition your career.
The Topics Include:

Moving In-House
Joining the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office
Switching Practice Areas
Opening Your Own Practice

The program starts at 4 p.m. at Fedora Restaurant and Lounge on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=745</link>
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		<title>Increased Government Regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sources within the Obama Administration are saying that they &#8220;will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation.&#8221; For many companies this will be seen as a burden, but for attorneys it can easily become a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=736</link>
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		<title>Tips on Becoming a Great Lawyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a great article, Molly Peckman of The Legal Intelligencer asks the age old question, &#8220;What Makes a Lawyer Great?&#8221; A few of the tips include:

Take nothing for granted
Be curious, always
Work wholeheartedly and with all your energy
Take risks
Listen well
Challenge yourself

And most importantly&#8230; surround yourself with great lawyers. To become the best you have to learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=723</link>
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		<title>Juror #19 &#8211; Kobe Bryant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of March Madness, we have to report that Kobe Bryant showed up in an Orange County courtroom and happily submitted himself to several hours of voir dire for jury duty. Kobe let the attorneys know that he had good common sense, thought he could be fair, and is a &#8220;good listener.&#8221; Bryant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=715</link>
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		<title>New Free Research Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Bar and 27 other state bars have joined forces to provide you with a great new legal research tool, Casemaker 2.1. All you have to do is register using your last name and Texas Bar number. The tool spans over 50 states and deserves a look, especially in an economic climate when associates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=709</link>
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		<title>The Virtual Mentor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mentoring is very much a two-way street. Both parties have to be sincerely dedicated to fostering a relationship. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. So for those of you that don&#8217;t have any mentors, hate your mentor, don&#8217;t feel like asking dumb questions, or are just too socially awkward to talk to anyone  - the Texas Young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=656</link>
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		<title>Surfing the Green Wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green marketing hype has been inescapable.  For example, notwithstanding the current economic recession, four out of five Americans claim that they continue to purchase and consume green products.  What implications does the green movement have for attorneys?
Many companies currently take measures to reduce their carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, utilize recycled paper and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=688</link>
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		<title>Tips for the Underpaid and Underemployed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a coda to Lisa Young&#8217;s recent post for the newly unemployed, I thought I&#8217;d add some thoughts for those of us who are employed, but perhaps not as gainfully as we had hoped in this, the Worst Economic Crisis In The History of The Universe (WECITHOTU).
Economics is called the dismal science. I am not an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=678</link>
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		<title>Texas Joins in on Layoffs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Above the Law, Baker Botts has joined in on the layoffs that have plagued the rest of the nation for months. Texas firms were initially better positioned to handle the economic slow down, but at this point &#8220;the recession has been so deep and long lasting&#8230; that [Baker Botts] regrettably have also had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=672</link>
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		<title>Layoff Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
These days, being unemployed is like being pregnant: I can tell you if I am or not right now, but a month from now, who can say?  If you do find yourself packing up your desk, there are a few things you can do to help yourself out.
First of all, make sure you get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=655</link>
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		<title>Court Appointments, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to my last post, I was asked, &#8220;how much money do you make?&#8221; As my day boss likes to respond, &#8220;how long is a piece of string?&#8221; Galveston County pays $65 per hour for in-court work, and other time and expenses are at the judge&#8217;s expense. Since most misdemeanor cases are going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=642</link>
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		<title>Small Firms Hiring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brenda Jeffreys from Texas Lawyer sat down with some career services offices from Texas law schools and discovered some seemingly obvious information&#8230; finding a job in this market is going to take more work.
The career services representatives said that most of their job listings are now coming from smaller firms and that they are enouraging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=638</link>
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		<title>Stop the Bleeding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears as though the layoffs will continue to get bigger and badder. Yesterday, four firms announced that they were letting go of more than 300 attorneys and 500 support staff. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the legal sector has lost 4,200 jobs in February and 1,300 in January.
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=629</link>
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		<title>It Happens All the Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One month after the alleged assault of pop star Rihanna, 21, by recording artist Chris Brown, 19, the public is outraged by news reports that the young celebrity is now refusing to cooperate with authorities in this investigation.  To top it off, the couple is rumored to have resumed their romantic relationship.
Domestic violence can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=626</link>
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		<title>Technical Competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our January article &#8220;It&#8217;s Time to be a Geek,&#8221; we said that it was time for lawyers to get more tech savvy or else face both malpractice claims and extinction. Apparently someone was listening because in this month&#8217;s Law Technology News, Joseph Howie points out that technical incompetence is against the Model Rules of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=595</link>
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		<title>The Infamous Joe Jamail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aside from being famous for the deposition video below and having the University of Texas at Austin football field named after him, Joe Jamail is an attorney born to Lebanese immigrants that the ABA Journal calls &#8220;one of the most successful lawyers in history.&#8221; The stories about Jamail have been made into legends at Texas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=544</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Firm Layoffs of Associates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of The American Lawyer, we now have the Top 10 Am Law 100 firms who have laid off the highest percentage of associates:




FIRM
NUMBER OF
ASSOCIATES CUT
PERCENT OF
ASSOCIATES CUT


1. Orrick
140
19.86


2. Holland &#38; Knight
70
15.12


3. Cooley Godward
52
12.97


4. Bryan Cave
58
11.22


5. Latham &#38; Watkins
190
10.84


6. McDermott, Will
60
10.64


7. Wilson Sonsini
45
10.09


8. O&#8217;Melveny &#38; Myers
90
9.53


9. Goodwin Procter
36
7.41


10. Proskauer Rose
35
6.39




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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=606</link>
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		<title>YTL Profile: Rick Cofer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time we run across a young Texas attorney that has an interesting story that will, hopefully, help YTL readers foray into a field they always had an interest in, but never knew how to get started.
Our first profile in this series is 2007 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=534</link>
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		<title>Court Appointments, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I graduated in the top 35 percent of my class in 2007, but am (still) not attached to a full-time job with a firm. I do contract work and have a second (distinctly non-legal) night job that helps pay the bills. I&#8217;ve been hoping and praying to get a job as a misdemeanor prosecutor now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=514</link>
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		<title>UNT Law School Inches Closer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years the University of North Texas has been pushing officials for a law school in downtown Dallas and this go around everyone seems to be on board except for the legal community. After all, as Brian Cuban points out, the market should dictate the need for more lawyers and not politicians.
To open another law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Problems with the Billable Hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many young attorneys find themselves in a never ending sweatshop of document review, receiving a trite $30 an hour to do work that a client is paying the firm over a $100 an hour for. This results in a great profit margin for both the legal recruiting firm that hires the contract attorneys and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=488</link>
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		<title>The Economics of Layoffs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce MacEwen does a great job of explaining the economics of law firm layoffs and some alternatives. Since you have the majority of law firm associates complaining about a lack of work life balance then start a program that allows them to reduce their pay according to reduced billable hour requirements. After all, most firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Steps Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice today in Houston. After his plea, Kent anounced that he would be &#8220;retiring&#8221; from the bench. Click here to read the full story at Texas Lawyer.
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		<title>Bar Prep Loans Dwindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As bar preparation season starts up this February and again in the summer, the number of lenders willing to provide private loans to the jobless cash strapped exam takers is dwindling. The Recorder points out that there are only four lenders left in the market, whereas in 2007 there were 19. The cost of becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Big Law Died  Over 800 Layoffs in One Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a dark day for those employed by big law firms all over the country. The unofficial count from Above the Law is 828, Law.com has the number at &#8220;almost 800,&#8221; and the Wall Street Journal is asking if it is &#8220;the darkest day ever for big law firms.&#8221; Regardless of the eventual number, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Past, Present, and Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Lippe of The American Lawyer makes a bold prediction for the future of the leverage model, it&#8217;s over. It is a must read, if for nothing else, to get a brief history on how associate salaries sky rocketed and where the current law firm business model came from. It&#8217;s also worth reading American Lawyer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=457</link>
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		<title>Firm Cutting Back on Research Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Above the Law first reported, Locke, Lord, Bissell, and Liddell is &#8220;now required to use Loislaw instead of Lexis or Westlaw for certain things.&#8221; Loislaw is a much cheaper alternative to Lexis and Westlaw. Many associates at smaller firms have had to deal with little to no budget for legal research and it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Prisoners Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should you accept a Facebook friend request from a partner, senior associate, or your boss? The answer isn&#8217;t as simple as you would hope, but Corporette.com has an interesting take on the situation. The really helpful information is in the comments section and has some great tips for making sure your personal life stays personal.
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Vitiated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia fired back, &#8220;that&#8217;s a nasty, impolite question,&#8221; to a 20-year-old political science major after she stood up in a room filled with 750 of West Palm Beach&#8217;s most powerful people, and asked if the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s policy to not allow cameras in the court was vitiated by the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;Me First&#8217; Attitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Law Journal has a slightly ill-conceived message for young attorneys, &#8220;Self-Marketing is Key to Being a Top Lawyer.&#8221; Perhaps self-marketing is a key to moving up the corporate ladder or becoming a rainmaker, but it is by no means a requirement for being a &#8220;top lawyer.&#8221; To make such a claim leads to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in Harris County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Texas Lawyer, Harris County&#8217;s District Clerk&#8217;s Office began testing an new automatic docketing system that will send an e-mail to lawyers over the weekend with a list of all of their court hearings for the following week. The e-mail will also contain a link for recipients to access online docket information and view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=386</link>
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		<title>A brave new world&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently over dinner, a good friend of mine opined on the state of the world and whether we were about to encounter a world that we have yet to experience in our generation. It turns out 2009 will be that year, as some in the legal industry are predicting an &#8220;Economic Hell&#8221; for law firms. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to be a Geek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You MUST keep up with technology. The legal industry has always been slow to adapt to technology and has generally been far behind the business world. Whether attorneys accept it or not, the future of the law resides in technology and the Internet; from marketing, to client contact, to electronic discovery, and the promise of more to come from social networking.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=366</link>
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		<title>Guantanamo Trials to End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has requested to suspend all war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay and today, military judges promptly accepted the request. The judges agreed to halt the cases for 120-days, leaving the President time to shut down the facility all together and have the cases tried in the United States. Obama hasn&#8217;t wasted any time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links and Blog Rolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Smythe recently linked to The Young Texas Lawyer from his new blog, Reversible Error. We wish him the best in his blogging endeavors and would like remind all readers that you can have a post about your own blog by simply linking to this site. Below is a description of Mr. Smythe&#8217;s practice.
Peter Smythe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=340</link>
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		<title>Here We Go Again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GM says that it will run out of cash by March 31st and that paying back the taxpayers is going to be a &#8220;daunting task.&#8221; It&#8217;s still unclear how the first portion of the bailout funds were spent. The economy should be the first item in the new agenda of President Obama, and it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Tech Savvy President</title>
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Aside from the other historical reasons that today&#8217;s inauguration was different from any other, today we witnessed the first swearing in of a President that understands the power of Internet, loves his Blackberry, regularly uses his ipod, and utilizes social networking like no other candidate in history. One of the first things that changed while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLK Day &amp; Predicting the Future</title>
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Today, BBC World News America released an amazing video of Dr. Martin Luther King being interviewed by BBC&#8217;s Bob McKenzie in 1964. Dr. King says that he believes there will be a black president within 40 years. It&#8217;s a great clip, a remarkable prediction, and worth taking a look at.
Happy MLK Day
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=299</link>
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		<title>There Goes the Neighborhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Supreme court has ruled and the New York Times is reporting that Amazon.com and other online retailers must continue charging state sales tax for any items sold to New York residents. &#8220;The law applies to companies that don&#8217;t have offices in New York, but have at least one person in the state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=295</link>
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		<title>You Gotta Be Kidding Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent study by CareerCast.com, mathematician was rated as the #1 profession and attorney was ranked #82, one spot below #81, telephone installer/repairer. Personally, I find the list a bit ridiculous, but to each his own. I have worked with mathematicians (#1), actuaries (#2), and statisticians (#3) and would not trade lives with them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=288</link>
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		<title>Doom, Gloom, and 7.2%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read the headlines today you&#8217;ll see the unemployment rate soared to 7.2% and everyone is talking about it getting to double digits. If you peruse Above the Law then the majority of posts are about layoffs, salary freezes, and bonus cuts. Amid all of this bad news it&#8217;s pretty hard to stay positive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Look Out for #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current economic environment may make it necessary for you to rethink your career strategy and the way you go about things. Jane Genova has an interesting read on the topic of looking out for yourself. In tough times employers look out for themselves and you should too.
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		<title>ABA Publishes Book to Settle Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous bloggers aren&#8217;t the only ones that have to worry about libel suits. The Law Librarian Blog astutely points out that the American Bar Association recently published Fearless: The Richard A. Sprague Story as a result of a 2003 settlement agreement stemming from Mr. Sprague&#8217;s libel suit against the ABA.
Again, watch what you say or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Careful What You Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former Vogue model has filed suit against Google to uncover the identity of some anonymous bloggers that "posted entries, including photographs, captions to the photographs and commentary solely about Liskula Cohen that describe her as a 'skank' and a 'ho,' " according to court records.]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Debbie Downer</title>
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Most of you will get a kick out of The 9 Reasons Not to Attend Law School, others of you will read it and start to lament decisions you&#8217;ve made and maybe even find yourself depressed. For the latter, you should avoid naysayers. They are all over the place and hate their lives so they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Google Gold Digger,  Smith v. The Abandoned Vessel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A California man claims that he has found a $3 billion hidden treasure in Refugio County in South Texas using Google.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=213</link>
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		<title>Stop Talking Like a Lawyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently you aren't supposed to talk like a lawyer anymore, not even in court. In the January issue of the ABA Journal, Jim McElhaney gives some pointers on a more effective way of questioning witnesses in trial.  His article is a little bit of a rehash of what those of us who took trial advocacy were probably taught, but nonetheless its an interesting concept and doesn't only apply to trial work.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year&#8230; Go Home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve met your hour requirements and you are a model associate. It&#8217;s New Years Eve and you are more than capable of making the independent decision to go home early. So if you are tip toeing around the office checking to see who is there and who isn&#8217;t&#8230; stop stressing yourself out and GO HOME!
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		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=181</link>
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		<title>The Elusive Happy Medium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the story of Goldilocks has taught us anything, it&#8217;s that finding the porridge that is JUST right takes some work. Getting the happy medium in the amount of work you have is no different. These days, having too little work means you might be on your way to a pink slip and having too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=168</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Billable Hours for the Soul&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the year it&#8217;s customary for people to start talking about how many hours they billed, year end reviews, and bonuses. This year is a little more grim than previous years, but it doesn&#8217;t change the fact that there are still tons of opportunities for young lawyers to sharpen their skills. Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>The Necessity of Networking</title>
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By now you are probably familiar with the age old phrase, &#8220;its not WHAT you know, its WHO you know.&#8221; To a certain degree this is very true, but it doesn&#8217;t paint a pretty picture for those that feel nepotism and cronyism are at all time highs. This does not, however, mean that you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will you be obsolete?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Survey predicts 20% or more of legal advice that law firms charge for will be free on the internet within five years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=135</link>
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		<title>From Wall Street to Main Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SMU Law student braves the cold while wearing sandwich board in an attempt to land a job.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Communicating Between Generations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to advances in modern medicine and varied financial obligations, people are healthier and working longer than ever. As a result, for the first time in our history there are four distinct generations in today&#8217;s workforce.

The Silent Generation (Born between: 1909-1945)
Baby Boomers (Born between: 1946-1965)
Generation X (Born between: 1966-1977)
Millennials (Born between: 1978-1995)

This wide array of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Couple Served via Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps as a precursor of things to come in the United States, an Australian couple was served with legal documents via their Facebook accounts after the couple defaulted on a $150,000 mortgage.
The defendants ignored emails from the mortgage providers attorney and failed to appear at an October 3rd court date. They had practically disappeared, except [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youngtexaslawyer.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>The Fear of Layoffs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the stories of friends losing jobs and layoff announcements become more frequent, you can&#8217;t help but wonder, &#8220;am I next?&#8221; &#8211; There is little you can do to prevent yourself from being laid off, other than doing your job to the best of your abilities. Don&#8217;t be a rumor monger or have a negative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I invest in my 401(k)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quick and simple answer is YES, but only if your employer matches your contribution. If you&#8217;ve recently graduated and started a job, you probably have struggled with whether or not you should invest in your company&#8217;s 401K program. If you decided to do so within the last couple years then you are having major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Your Dream Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a number of young professionals, you might be unhappy at work, worried about your job security, or just need a change. If you are happy with your current situation then consider yourself very lucky and don&#8217;t take your job for granted. It isn&#8217;t an easy time to enter the job market but if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Control of Student Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a fresh graduate and newly licensed attorney, the first issue you face after finding a job is what to do about student loans. Many students put their loans in a dark corner of their brain and don&#8217;t visit that corner except in sporadic instances of fear and anxiety. The key to paying off student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaugural Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Young Texas Lawyer is a blawg designed to help address the questions and concerns of other young lawyers all over the country by sharing knowledge that is often hidden to newly minted attorneys. Everything from student loans to office politics will be discussed. I hope you find the site both educational and entertaining.
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