Hot Diggity! It's National Hot Dog Day (Month)!

You can hot dog, be a hot dog, and exclaim Hot Dog! Of course, you can eat a hot dog, or you can try to add your name to Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Hall of Fame by downing more than 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. You can also do all of that while watching wiener dog races. There are Coneys, Chicago-Style, and Rippers. No matter how you serve it, the hot dog is the best of the wurst and an American tradition (even if its origins can be traced to Frankfurt, Germany). And so much so, that not only is July 21 National Hot Dog Day but July is also National Hot Dog Month. Let’s take a few moments and examine some legal and literary aspects of the hot dog.

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Latest & Greatest - The Adoption Law Handbook: Practice, Resources, and Forms for Family Law Professionals

Adoption can be a tricky process and generally requires the assistance of an experienced adoption professional to ensure that the adoption is done correctly within the proper jurisdiction and in conformance with applicable state laws. To shed some light on this often complicated process, attorney and author Jennifer Fairfax has prepared The Adoption Law Handbook: Practice, Resources, and Forms for Family Law Professionals.

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Latest & Greatest – Building a Better Law Office: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day

Whether you’ve been a lawyer for decades or whether you are an attorney just starting out, you could benefit from reading Building a Better Law Practice: Become a Better Lawyer in Five Minutes a Day. In his preface, author Jeremy W. Richter points out that being a good lawyer requires continually improving your craft and that this act of betterment requires time and energy, perhaps two things one does not have at the end or (sometimes) the middle of the day. In this regard, Richter has written a book to help lawyers build a better practice, and he has done so in a “daily reading” format that takes only five minutes a day.

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