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Earning a good living without focus groups: It can be done.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  In the summer of 1971, at the age of eight, I learned two indispensible things. First, I learned about Mad Magazine, which I read and subscribed to religiously for many years, and whose offices I got a tour of three years later, mesmerized as Associate Editor Jerry DeFucio led me down hallways filled with amazing art, drawers filled with such priceless gems as the original Godfather cover artwork, and Bill Gaines's office with a papier-mâché King Kong ready to burst in through the window; and as Sergio Aragones inked original drawings for me on the inside covers of his books. Second, I learned how to fold my eyelids inside out, which I can still do today.  How does this connect with the practice of law? First, the most effective and fearless fight -- be it in or out of the courtroom -- is accomplished by maintaining the wonder and fearlessness and never-ending joyful self-discovery of a child...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).