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Law Practice

Dec. 5, 2013

The new normal

Now starts the season of reflecting on the recent past. The good of course is sometimes easy to forget; the bad and the ugly, not so much.

Julie L. Kessler

PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582

Phone: (310) 403-0009

Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com

George Washington Univ Law School

Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com

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Over the weekend, along with eating turkey, giving thanks and the end for many of the fiscal year, starts the season of reflecting on the recent past. The good of course is sometimes easy to forget; the bad and the ugly, not so much.

On Sept. 21, 2013, a mass killing occurred by Al-Shabab gunmen at the upscale Westgate Mall in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, which left over 60 dead. Just four days before that in Washington, D.C., a mentally unstable navy reservist and contractor with a s...

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