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Flowers in My Hair
By Kevin Ryan, Esq.

Scott McKenzie once advised us (OMG, I’m dating myself now!): “If you go to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair.” OK, so I ignored McKenzie’s sage advice this trip – it is not, after all, the summer of love. And besides, I wasn’t going to the City by the Bay in order to wander the streets of the Haight, smoke a little weed, and sit in Golden Gate Park (or Fillmore West) to listen to the Airplane, the Dead, and Quicksilver. I didn’t even plan to leave my heart there. Times have changed.

I went to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Bar Executives. I find these conferences to be exceptionally valuable: they keep me fresh, they inspire me, and they provide me a chance to mingle and…

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