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and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty.
~~William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

Just a quick nugget of America’s history about what we consider the original Thanksgiving harvest celebration back in 1621 on our eastern shore.

As I work feverishly to sort of close-up shop these next few days prior to a little upper-Midwestern travel next week I have much to be thankful for in the legal realm. Despite some of the general economic headwinds, I’m expecting to close-out our Firm’s best financial year yet (sorry for not keeping up with the monthly financials better but I’ll surely do a full-year look-back). SIC’s ramping up nicely seeing nearly 60,000 site hits and more than 11,000 site visitors just last month. And I expect that we’ll continue to really ramp-up our place as the ‘Go-To’ resource for entrepreneurial attorneys as I get some outside technical assitance and add another writer or two. But primarily I’m thankful for the people I meet as an attorney and blogger from my clientele to the hundreds of lawyers I meet and hear from on a regular basis.

And speaking of this spirit of Thanksgiving…

I’ve got my first little free give-a-way to offer compliments of UPrinting.com. The prize offering is for: 50, 7*5″ (folded to 3.5*5) custom thank you cards with plain envelopes (see here, here, and here).

What’s the contest? Leave your comment to this post stating some legal advice or mentoring story related to your law practice that you’re most thankful for. The deadline is 11/29/09. For example, I’m very thankful that the first attorney I worked for, Gordon Cochrane, an excellent sole practitioner was an absolute sticker for thoroughness and being detail oriented. It got a bit grating at the time but looking back I appreciate the fact that I’m not sloppy. Only 1 winner and I’m the judge.

How ’bout you?

And for a quick bow to the FTC, I am receiving 50 thank you cards from UPrinting.com for hosting this contest.