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Judicial Notice (09.11.21): #NeverForget
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Judicial Notice (09.11.21): #NeverForget

A small-town lawyer with very big problems, the future of Sidley Austin, and other legal news from the week that was.

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The Manhattan skyline, featuring the World Trade Center pre-9/11 (via Getty Images).

Where were you twenty years ago today, on the morning of 9/11?

I was living and working in Midtown Manhattan at the time, as a second-year associate at Wachtell Lipton. Around 8:30 that morning, I was getting ready for work while listening to a news radio station (either …

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