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my most rewarding aspect
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in my practice is my clients
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i love helping them a lot of them are
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long-term
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clients they came to me years ago for
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some project
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and then they come back and say rob and
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i have this project
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and i’ll say yes i can help you but if i
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can’t i will make sure they get to the
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right lawyer
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so that their problems are solved i also
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like
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problem solving and that’s very
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beneficial
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and i like helping my clients get
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a result that they want and that is
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you know extremely rewarding
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as a lawyer once told me a client
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takes on their shoulders the weight of
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their client
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and clients want to give you their
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problems
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and i gladly accept them and hopefully
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can work them out for them and
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make them you know feel like they’re in
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a better place when their project is
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over
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in speaking of scholarly writing and
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works
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i have written prolifically since i was
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a baby lawyer
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i speak all the time including on zoom
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now
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not my preference because i like to
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interact with
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my audience but right now we’re stuck
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with that
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i have taught at golden gate
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and i have also taught at university of
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san francisco in both the law school
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and in the masters in tax program i
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participate in a annual
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california bar activity
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where we go back to washington dc and
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national office and present white papers
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i comment a lot for tax notes
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when new legislation comes out i have a
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lot of friends in the government that i
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interact with
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and i really enjoy that part of my
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practice and also
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mentoring young lawyers because if you
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don’t have people that mentor them
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and teach them and you pay it forward
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uh you know it’s never gonna happen and
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you’re not gonna build build
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the practice of law so those are
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things that are very important to me