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Our first stint in a law firm was on the transactional side.  Yes, it sounds crazy even to us, but we spent our first 18 months in the profession pulling all-nighters on triple-tier financings of leveraged buyouts, doing clueless due diligence in far-flung back-offices, drafting trust indentures, ‘slugging’ at the printers, and collecting acrylic cubes

Photo of Stephen McConnell

Happy birthday, Christopher Plummer.   The great Canadian actor turns 88 today, and seems as vibrant as ever.  What a marvelous career Plummer has had.  He is a preeminent Shakespearean actor.  We saw him play Iago to James Earl Jones’s Othello on Broadway 35 years ago.  Of course, most people remember Plummer as Captain Von Trapp