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Oct. 1, 2009

Reel Law

"Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line he doesn't really mean to cross. ... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin' but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water."

- Attorney Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) musing after a big win in The Rainmaker (1997)

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