We're by no means out of the woods yet, and given the administrations of recent weeks, the next quarter's figures are likely to make difficult reading.

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If you want an intelligent defense of the trial bar, sans most of the histrionics that make such reading difficult to slog through, I recommend Eric Turkewitz.

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