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Stop Letting Your Attorney Screw Up Your Holiday Schedule
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Mar 24, 2026
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Fair warning: I'm already heated and we haven't even started. This is the episode where I drag every attorney who thinks "parties will share holidays" is an acceptable sentence in a legal document....
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