Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the partners of their

respective law firms. Writing a book like this is a big commitment. It takes

a lot of time, and some of that time unavoidably takes away from other

matters. We want to thank our partners for supporting our effort. That

support took many forms, but an important one is that other deadlines

have been extended and an occasional tardy deadline has been forgiven.

This book would not have been possible without such forbearance from our

colleagues. We believe that an effort such as ours in writing this book is

for the greater good and, in the end, when the scores are tallied, the ben-

efit from our time and effort in writing this book will more than outweigh

the costs of the occasional distraction that writing has caused us. Happily,

those we practice law with seem to see it in the same way that we do. So a

sincere “thank you” to our partners and colleagues.

Also, Kevin wishes to thank Ms. Susan Banks for legal research sup-

porting Chapter 5. For myself, I want to thank Ron Pabis for supporting

work on the second edition and Dan Garcia for considerable time and effort

to cite check and review appendices. And finally, for all of us, we want to

thank Ed Roney, our managing editor, who had the idea for this book,

and Brad Lyerla, our editor in chief emeritus, who provided encourage-

ment and thoughts for the continued development of this now-decade-old

endeavor. We are looking forward to more developments in this field and

the updates that will come.

SVH, Editor in Chief

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