It’s the last episode of 2018! What a whirlwind of a year it has been, right?
As we wind down for the year, I thought it would be great to invite Nicole Abboud, founder of this podcast, to join me in chatting about some of the resources, apps, and podcasts that got us through the year and helped our businesses grow.
Also, stick around until the end of the episode for a super special announcement!
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Resources Mentioned: :
Online Marketing Made Easy by Amy Porterfield
Venmo - phone app
Stripe
LegalMinds mastermind led by Mitch Jackson
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LexisNexis: From predictive analytics to research solutions, legal tools from LexisNexis can help you research more thoroughly, work more efficiently and build stronger strategies. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcast for a special discount just for Gen Why listeners. Visit the link above for Terms and Conditions.
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About this episode:
Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler are Co-Founders of LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers. LAWCLERK was designed to allow solo practitioners and small firms to tap into a nationwide network of skilled freelance attorneys and add subject matter expertise or an extra set of hands whenever they need it without increasing their overhead by adding full-time employees.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How the idea for LAWCLERK came about;
- Steps involved in hiring and finding the right contracting attorneys?
- Who the freelance attorneys on the platforms are;
- Most creative ways busy attorneys use LAWCLERK;
- Advice for overwhelmed attorneys who are hesitant to outsource.
Contact Information:
lawclerk.legal
Special Offer to our listeners:
The rebate code mentioned is GENWHY200 and they’ll send a $200 rebate check when a new user posts a project of $200 or more. This is a one-time per user code.
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We appreciate your feedback! Please enter for a chance to win one of 2 $50 Amazon gift cards – deadline to enter is December 21, 2018.
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Thank you to our show sponsor Lexis Nexis. From predictive analytics to research solutions, legal tools from LexisNexis can help you research more thoroughly, work more efficiently and build stronger strategies. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcast and see how you can get a custom solution tailored precisely for your budget.
About this episode:
Mike Whelan is an author and podcaster. He writes about the future of attorney work, effective collaboration, and the legal supply chain. His book Lawyer Forward will be available January 29, 2019 on Amazon.com in both digital and print. Register at lawyerforward.com/bookupdates to stay informed about Mike's process for writing the book, as well as release news.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- The lawyerforward conference and how Mike tried changing the way CLEs are taught and earned,
- The process of writing a book and sharing your ideas with the world,
- CEO v. expert and is this model feasible for solo/small firms.
Contact Information:
Twitter: @mikewhalenjr
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I really hope you enjoyed this episode. I would really appreciate it if you shared this episode with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode. A special thanks to our sponsor Lexis Nexis. From predictive analytics to research solutions, legal tools from LexisNexis can help you research more thoroughly, work more efficiently and build stronger strategies. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcast
I would really appreciate it if you shared this episode with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode. If there is any topic you’d like us to cover or guest you’d like us to have on the show, you can email me at: karima@genwhylawyer.comAlso, don’t forget to subscribe to the GWL Podcast in Apple Podcasts or in Stitcher Radio. That way, every time I prepare a new episode for you, it’ll automatically show up in your phone.
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_________________________
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About this episode:
On this week’s episode, Jeff Richardson shares his story with us: how we started iphonejd.com and how he continues to blog about the latest tech tools in the market. iPhone J.D. is the oldest and largest website for lawyers using iPhones and iPads. Jeff is an attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
jeff@iphonejd.com
Twitter: @jeffrichardson(occasional updates from Jeff Richardson on iPhone topics and sometimes other items), and
Twitter: @iphonejd (automatic notice of every new post on iPhone J.D.)
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I would really appreciate it if you shared this episode with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode. If there is any topic you’d like us to cover or guest you’d like us to have on the show, you can email me at: karima@genwhylawyer.comAlso, don’t forget to subscribe to the GWL Podcast in Apple Podcasts or in Stitcher Radio. That way, every time I prepare a new episode for you, it’ll automatically show up in your phone.
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About our guest David Bitton:
As a best-selling author, CLE speaker, and founder of PracticePanther.com, David is obsessed with automating law firms with the help of today’s technology. He’s revolutionizing the legal industry by helping lawyers get more done in less time using PracticePanther’s law practice management software.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
david@practicepanther.com
Resources
1 Month free trial to practice panther if you email David at david@practicepanther.com
LawPay.com
Lawmatics.com
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Regina Edwards is the Owner and Managing Attorney of Edwards Family Law. She has been practicing law in Gwinnett County, Georgia since 2001 and went from having quite a few attorneys reporting to her to scaling it down to a firm of 3. I have been following her work online for over a year and really excited to have her on the show with us!
Thank you to our show sponsor Lexis Nexis. From predictive analytics to research solutions, legal tools from LexisNexis can help you research more thoroughly, work more efficiently and build stronger strategies. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcastand see how you can get a custom solution tailored precisely for your budget.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
regina@edwardsfamilylaw.com
Resources
https://www.smokeball.com/
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Jordan Couch is an attorney and Cultural Ambassador at Palace Law where his practice focuses on plaintiff's side workers’ compensation and personal injury litigation. Outside of his practice Jordan is heavily involved in state, local, and national bar associations, advocating for a better, more client-centric future to the legal profession. Find him on social media @jordanlcouch or email jordan@palacelaw.com.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jordanlcouch
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I am honored to have Carolyn Elefant join us on the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast. She’s truly inspiring!
In this episode we discuss serving the community, niching and focusing new practice areas and bridging the access to justice in rural areas.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carolynelefant/
carolyn.elefant@gmail.com
Resources
https://myshingle.com/41practiceareasCaorlyn’s new book on 41 new practice areas that did not exist 15 years ago
https://vimeo.com/288630435- The 7 figure e-book webinar
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Billie Tarascio a family law attorney and owner of Modern Law, a six attorney family law firm in greater Phoenix, Access Legal, a legal technology company providing do it yourself resources for self-representing family law litigants, and Modern Law Practice, a plug and play operational model for law firms looking to scale. Modern Law was opened in 2010 in Arizona and was recently named one of the fastest growing firms in the country for the third consecutive year. Their model focuses on the use of technology, customer service, automation, and whole health.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
https://mymodernlaw.com
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MyModernLaw/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mymodernlaw?lang=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billie-tarascio-62322bb/
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Former product development engineer Neil Thompson is the founder of Teach the Geek, an online platform for STEM professionals. The platform's first offering is the public speaking course, Teach the Geek to Speak. Neil turned his early failings in public speaking into a 6 step process to deliver any speech, and he is committed to sharing the process with fellow geeks.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Contact Information:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/teachthegeek
Twitter: www.twitter.com/teachthegeek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_teachthegeek_
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-8BcMcqnJLAYOhJtwy5wQ
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/neilithompson
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As we enter the last quarter of the year, I decided it would be a good idea to reflect on goals I set at the beginning of the year to see how far I've come and to assess where I'm going with my law practice in the next 3 months. I decided to reach out and invite Nicole Abboud, former host of the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast and owner of Abboud Media, a video and podcast production and marketing company helping lawyers and law firms, to chat about both of our businesses and how we plan on growing them.
What we discuss in this episode:
Contact Information:
Connect with Nicole on Instagram @nic_abboud
Resources:
A special thanks goes to our sponsor Abby Connect, the leading live receptionist. Get your 2 weeks free trial and $95 off your first month using this link: http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy
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Stephanie has been coaching law students and attorneys for the past decade – helping them navigate the profession, build their reputation, and develop their careers. Having been a prosecutor, judicial staff attorney, solo practitioner, magistrate, and law firm associate, Stephanie understands the dynamics at play in each environment. She has been successful in different settings and has been elected by her peers to serve the profession and the community at high levels.
The secret? Mastering The Other 85. Stephanie knows what it takes to develop and maintain key relationships, how to value people skills, and how to fit it all into an attorney’s busy practice and life. She has condensed all she has learned into The Other 85 and is excited to share it with you.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources:
https://theother85.net/hire/ Make sure to use the Code GENWHY for 10% off
Contact Information:
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As a former teacher and corporate trainer, Cindy Nicholson works with entrepreneurs who have dreams of building their business beyond just trading dollars for hours. They’re ready to grow their business by offering online courses but have no idea where to start. Cindy helps walk them through the process so that they can create a course that they’re proud of and that their clients will love.
In short, Cindy helps amazing entrepreneurs turn their incredible content into effective and engaging learning material. So often, small business owners are experts in their field but struggle with how to translate their vast knowledge into an engaging, life transforming online course. They know they want to scale their business and reach a broader audience (and earn some passive income along the way) but need some help to make it happen. That’s become The Course Whisperer, Cindy Nicholson’s, calling.
Thank you to our show sponsor Abby Connect, the live receptionist service loved by small businesses. Get your 2-week free trial and $95 off your first month at http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
How do people come up with their course ideas? Do most have an outline already? know the details of the course or does Cindy help them flush out their ideas?
Sometimes, it’s hard to break down material to teachable portions when you’re an expert in your field. Cindy shares advice for people to take a step back and think about the basics and what need to be taught.
Resources and Platforms Cindy recommends to people thinking about starting a course.
Resources:
http://coursewhisperer.co/genwhy
Contact Information:
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Megan saves lawyers’ careers. She defends lawyers before the State Bar of California in disciplinary investigations and proceedings. She also looks for new ways to help lawyers face ethics challenges, including creating The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide, a membership website for lawyers defending themselves on disciplinary charges; podcasting on Lawyers Gone Ethical; writing for online and print publications; and speaking to lawyers on ethics issues.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources:
Megan Zavieh’s Podcast: Lawyers gone ethical
Contact Information:
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Award-winning immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano is author of Be the CEO of Your Law Firmand founder of the Association of Mother Immigration Attorneys (AMIGA), which helps solo women attorneys transform their practices into thriving businesses. In this episode, Ally and I chat about the mistakes she’s made as a solo practitioner and the steps she took to take her practice to 6 figures and now to a 7-figure practice.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Starting a law practice, business development, practice management hacks, and best tools Ally has found,
- The transition from treating her business as a hobby to building a strong business after she made a few changes,
- Some of the main takeaways from Ally’s new book: Be the CEO of your Law firm.
Resources:
Be the CEO of Your Law Firm: Gain Control, Turn a Profit, and Reclaim Your Life.
http://www.amigalawyers.com
Contact Information:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/191122438092413/
https://www.instagram.com/allylozanoesq/
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Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author. Phil co-wrote SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of “Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read”. He is also the author of a popular WordPress SEO plugin that has been downloaded over 200,000 times in the last year.
Phil’s latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Can you please briefly describe who you are and what you do
Basics of Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) - on page and off page SEO,
Timeline for SEO,
Reviving old content,
Local SEO, online reputation and building citations,
How writing a book can help with your SEO and authority
Resources:
Kansas City Web Design
SEO for Growth
Podcast Bookers
Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines (GSQEG)
Contact Information:
Kansas City Web Design®
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Neha Sampat is CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and writing, she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, and distrust in teams. Through professional development coaching, she helps her individual clients develop job situations and leadership styles that engage their true and best selves. Neha practiced law at both large and boutique law firms, and later joined law academia as dean of students and adjunct professor of law and leadership, so she is a Gen Xer fan of Gen Y.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Recognizing impostor syndrome,
- Overcoming impostor syndrome - exercises that Neha uses with some clients,
- How to deal with difficult situations and unconscious bias and how to deal with stress,
- GenZers and how they’re disrupting work as we know it.
Resources:
learn more and register here for the online course, "Owning Your Value: 10 tactics to bust your self-doubt, step into your true value, and be your best self." Use the discount code: GENWHYLAWYER to receive 15% off.
sign up for Neha's newsletter to stay informed and receive free resources and tips on cultivating confidence and building belonging.
http://time.com/5066641/generation-z-disruption/
Contact Information:
www.facebook.com/belonglab
Twitter: @BelongLab @nehamsampat
Instagram: @belonglab
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After a year of solo practice, I wanted to share the good, the bad and the ugly of starting a law firm.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Starting a law firm,
- Having a vision for your firm,
- Marketing for your firm,
- Setting up systems and processes for your firm.
Resources:
www.upwork.com – website for freelancers from around the world
www.udemy.com– website for online courses
www.semrush.com – Great free courses on search engine optimization
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1924192371133759/?ref=bookmarks
Directory listings (Google Places, Bing, Yelp) linked back to your website.
Lawyer directories (Avvo, Justia, Lawyers.com) linked back to your website.
Contact Information:
karima@genwhylawyer.com
twitter.com/thepatentlady
https://www.instagram.com/thepatentlawyer/
https://twitter.com/thepatentlady
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A lawyer and a therapist Will Meyerhofer has many accolades after this name: JD LCSW-R. He is a psychotherapist and former biglaw attorney with a private practice treating lawyers and others in TriBeCa, New York City (visit www.aquietroom.com for more information.) He is the author of four books, including “Way Worse than Being a Dentist: the Lawyer's Quest for Meaning,” and its sequel "Still Way Worse..." about life in biglaw, as well as a book introducing and elaborating upon the central concepts of psychotherapy, “Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy.” A graduate of Harvard College, The NYU School of Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, Will writes regularly for Above The Law, and maintains a blog about life, the law and psychotherapy, at www.thepeoplestherapist.com .
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources:
Articles on Burnout - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2017/09/26/the-finish-line-problem/
Lawyer self-care - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2015/12/16/something-upbeat-and-constructive/
Will’s NEW book, a sequel to Way Worse Than Being a Dentist, cleverly titled Still Way Worse Than Being a Dentist
Will’s first book, on the ideas underlying psychotherapy: Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy
His second book, about the state of the legal profession: Way Worse Than Being a Dentist
His third book, a comic novel: Bad Therapist: A Romance
A recent podcast
..and, finally, a television interview
Contact Information:
www.thepeoplestherapist.com
www.aquietroom.com
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From professional musician to CEO of a 60 year old non-profit, Bob’s climbed the career ladder through a series of career pivots.Before becoming a CEO, he was a Navy Supply Corps Commander, technology consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Services, a risk management consultant and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a major insurance company,
He’s successfully pivoted 12 times to obtain career success and is a career transition practitioner and expert. As a former “C” level executive, hiring manager, and on occasion job applicant, he knows what management’s looking for. He believes that finding a better, higher paying job requires more than just a great resume and LinkedIn profile. You need a complete toolkit, which also includes networking, interviewing, and negotiation skills to name a few.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources
Career Do-Over Self-Assessment Tool
Online Career Assessment Tools
Get Noticed: 8 Great LinkedIn Hacks
Blogs Discussed on the Podcast
Online Career Assessment Tools
Resume Keywords: Beating the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
How to identify your transferable skills for a mid-life career transition
What is the Toughest Interview Question You Will Ever Be Asked?
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Travis founded Student Loan Planner after helping his wife figure out her six figure med school loans and realizing that all their friends needed help too. He's consulted on more than $250 million of student debt, which is more than any one person in the country. He loves helping clients realize that financial freedom and security is possible no matter how high their student loan balance. He lives in St. Louis, MO.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources:
https://www.studentloanplanner.com/refinance-student-loans/
https://www.studentloanplanner.com/hire-student-loan-help/
Contact Information:
https://www.studentloanplanner.com
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Lily Li is a privacy lawyer and the owner of Metaverse Law, a practice dedicated to helping businesses comply with privacy and cybersecurity laws across the United States and Europe. She is a graduate of Duke Law School, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professionals' certificates for the United States and Europe from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Prior to founding Metaverse Law, Lily was a commercial and intellectual property litigator at Brown Wegner in Irvine, and an intellectual property consultant and director of marketing and business development at IP Checkups, a patent analytics and valuation firm in Berkeley. In her free time, she is a total geek and loves reading and watching anything science fiction.
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Dan X. Nguyen is an attorney in Orange County, California that assist businesses with general counsel, franchising, trademark, and immigration matters, and facilitates a monthly mastermind for attorneys. He is a business nerd and his wife and 2 kids loath about his soliloquies on business strategies. Fun fact, in 2016, he tried out for a professional basketball team. In this episode, we chat about the importance of quarterly goals and importance of having a community to keep you accountable and keep you on track.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Resources:
Dan’s 12 week Write In: http://subscribepage.com/12weeks
zoom.us
Calendly.com
Uberconference.com
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Somya Kaushik is a former litigator turned legal tech entrepreneur, having started the company EsqMe, Inc. (www.esqme.com), a legal document marketplace and legal service platform for lawyers, by lawyers. Kaushik is an expert in legal tech and has spoken across the country on entrepreneurship, legal technology and its rapid advancements in the practice of law, and most recently gender bias in the law and technology. In this episode, we chat about how you can save time with legal templates by attorneys for attorneys and how you can generate additional income by selling the templates you have worked so hard for on Esqme.com
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Somya started a legal tech company,
- Saving time by buying legal templates and editing them to your liking,
- Selling your legal templates and making money.
Resources:
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Tom is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd. (a bot development and consulting company for the legal industry). Tom is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG Technology Innovation Committee, and Chair of Education for Group Legal Services Association. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tom now lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and two daughters. In this episode, we discuss how chatbots can help you save time and convert leads into clients.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- What chatbots are, and how you can implement them in your practice,
- When chatbots would make sense for your practice,
- All the different options and flexibility of chatbots,
- How to use chatbots efficiently for your firm to save you time and convert leads into paying clients.
Resources:
LawDroid Receptionist Bot:
LawDroid Legal Health Check:
https://www.palacelaw.com/patbot-intro-page/
Tom Martin’s articles on chatbots:
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