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Are You a Low-Tech Lawyer? How to Make Technology Your Friend

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April 1, 2020

By:

Noel Peel

Communicate: Group chat and file sharing for dispersed teams

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March 25, 2020

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Patrick Davis

Maintaining control and accountability over a decentralized office

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March 25, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

Why Businesses (and Law) Need Women in Leadership: An International Women’s Day Perspective

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March 6, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

A Year of Inventing Smokeball

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February 25, 2020

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Patrick Davis

I Invented It – An Interview with Smokeball Founder & CEO Hunter Steele

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February 21, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

A (Very) Brief History of Legal Technology

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January 29, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

Using Digital Tools To Engineer A Better Offline Life

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January 14, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

How Multitasking Harms Your Work/Life Balance

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January 14, 2020

By:

Patrick Davis

Smokeball’s Second Annual Season of Giving a Success

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December 6, 2019

By:

Patrick Davis

Smokeball Content Chronicle: Sept 2019

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December 3, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Smokeball Content Chronicle: Oct 2019

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December 3, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Smokeball Celebrates 2018 with Clients and Community Activists

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November 30, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Is Your Small Law Firm Keeping Your Passwords Safe?

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November 30, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Law Firm Office Culture Series: Offer Incentives and Rewards

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November 27, 2019

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Noel Peel

Law Firm Office Culture Series: Clients Over Office Politics

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November 27, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Law Firm Office Culture Series: Cultivate Community

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November 14, 2019

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Noel Peel

Top 5 Legal Podcasts of 2018

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November 14, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

7 Tips to Overcome Fear of Change

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November 14, 2019

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Noel Peel

Legal Calendaring Best Practices You Should Follow

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October 11, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Where Did That Email Go? Email Management Tips For Lawyers

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September 6, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Three Ways to Build Client Loyalty at Your Small Law Firm

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Using Pro Bono Work to Benefit Your Community and Your Law Firm

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

What to Do When Clients Second Guess Your Expertise

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

Stop Doing These Things to Maximize Productivity at Your Small Law Firm

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

How To Stay Secure When Using Public Wi-Fi

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Smokeball’s Second Annual Volunteer Trip to Ronald McDonald House

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

CALA Update: Smokeball Saves the Day With Its Recent Improvements

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Case Management for Every Little Detail

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Does Your Small Law Firm Have Social Media Policies?

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Quick, Easy and Unconventional Ways to Stay in Touch with Clients

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Quick and Easy Tricks for Managing Law Firm Email

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Why Practice Management Technology Should be Used to Avoid Ethical Pitfalls

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Positioning your Small Law Firm for Growth

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

How Lawyers Can Avoid Working on Unprofitable Tasks

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

What Law Firms Can Do to Improve Email Management

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Keeping Client Privacy Under Lock and Key

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Automation

Smokeball Makes a Big Impression on ABA TECHSHOW 2019

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

How to Avoid e-Filing Pitfalls [Webinar Recap]

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Four Indirect Benefits of Better Document Management

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Daily Business Development Habits All Lawyers Should Implement

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

The Do’s and Don’ts of Hosting Holiday Office Parties

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

How to Establish Your Law Firm as a Thought Leader

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Growing Your Law Firm Depends on Persistence

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

How to Create a Sense of Urgency in New Clients

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

How To Keep Your Small Law Firm Successful By Going Paperless

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

How to Move your Clients Through the Sales Funnel

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

How to Modernize and Innovate Your Law Practice

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

HR Changes Your Small Law Firm Should Make Now

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

5 Ways to Avoid Burnout and Achieve Balance as a Paralegal

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

5 Types of Highly Engaging Blog Posts for Lawyers

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Safety in Tech – How to Protect Your Computer From a Data Breach

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

Hiring Your Law Firm’s First Employees, Simplified

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September 5, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

SCOTUS Invalidates Portion of Federal “Crimes of Violence” Definition as Too Vague

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September 5, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Continues Developing for Clients

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August 26, 2019

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Noel Peel

Importing Emails into Smokeball

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August 23, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Honing Legal Writing Skills: Using Colons and Semicolons in Memos and Briefs

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August 20, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

New Software? Facing Up to Training Hurdles

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August 12, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Smokeball Makes Upgrades for Family Law Firms!

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July 25, 2019

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Noel Peel

Curcio Law Offices: A Smokeball Personal Injury Firm That’s All In The Family

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July 16, 2019

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Noel Peel

Grow and Better Your Small Law Firm with the Smokeball Back to Business Conference

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July 9, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Three Underutilized Networking Strategies for Attorneys

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July 4, 2019

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Noel Peel

How to Ensure You Don’t Email the Wrong Recipient

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July 4, 2019

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Noel Peel

Taking Your Documents Online – The Best Scanners for Lawyers

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July 4, 2019

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Noel Peel

The Top Five New Innovations Small Law Firms Are Making

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July 4, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Small Law Firm HR Mistakes to Avoid

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July 3, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Constitutionality of Noneconomic Damages Caps

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July 3, 2019

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Noel Peel

A Place to Shine: Smokeball Featured in Built In Chicago’s Latest Hiring Article

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July 3, 2019

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Noel Peel

Growing Your Firm

7 Organization & Time Management Tips

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July 3, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Illinois’s New Marijuana Laws Could Mean Much More Expungement Work for Criminal Defense Lawyers

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June 28, 2019

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Noel Peel

3 Ways To Tame Your Emails

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June 25, 2019

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Noel Peel

7 Reasons Why You Should Shut Off Your Computer Every Day

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June 22, 2019

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Noel Peel

Law Firm Tips For Capturing (and Billing) More Time

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June 22, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Hosts Annual Real Estate Symposium

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May 10, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Client Review: Cory Easton Shares How Smokeball Has Increased His Productivity

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May 9, 2019

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Noel Peel

SCOTUS Pulls the Plug on Class Arbitration Ambiguity in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela

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May 3, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball’s Josh Taylor Featured on Ari Kaplan’s “Reinventing Professionals”

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May 3, 2019

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Noel Peel

Law Firm Billing Tips: Invoice Fast to Last

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May 2, 2019

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Noel Peel

Microsoft Outlook Tips for Lawyers

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May 2, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Ranked in Top 50 of Crain’s Chicago Business 2019 Best Places to Work

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April 16, 2019

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Noel Peel

CHANGE MANAGEMENT SERIES: Why Change is Hard and How to Prepare

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April 3, 2019

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Noel Peel

Practicing Law in Multiple States

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March 28, 2019

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Noel Peel

“You never thought that hip hop would take it this far”: Artists and scholars implore SCOTUS to de-criminalize rapper’s lyrics

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March 12, 2019

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Noel Peel

Automation

Automatic Time Tracking for Law Firms [Video]

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March 8, 2019

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Noel Peel

LEGAL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE SERIES: Slaying the billing beast with automationThe problem with reconstructionContemporaneous time entry = accurate time entryThere’s a third waySee it for yourself

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February 28, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Premiers New Advertising Campaign

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February 27, 2019

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Noel Peel

LEGAL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE SERIES: The ultimate guide to getting attorney buy-in for Productivity Software

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February 26, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball’s Josh Taylor Hosts Persuasive Writing Workshop at The John Marshall Law School

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February 25, 2019

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Noel Peel

Smokeball Presents Data Migration Planning to Chicago Bar Association

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February 22, 2019

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Noel Peel

LEGAL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE SERIES: The next big leap your legal tech needs to take is Legal Productivity SoftwareThink “tools” rather than “tech”The myth of the silver bulletSystems = FreedomSystems don’t have to become a second job

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February 21, 2019

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Noel Peel

Nancy Shafer: Chicago Family Law Champion

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February 19, 2019

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Noel Peel

[Free Webinar] What’s New in Smokeball Billing

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February 18, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Personal Injury Claims: What You Should Know

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February 14, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Data Safety & “The Cloud”: Smokeball’s Product Manager On Cloud Security

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February 12, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

Social Media & Attorneys: A Webinar Conversation with Social Media Attorney Scott Malouf

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January 30, 2019

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Noel Peel

4 SEO Tips for Small Law Firms

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January 30, 2019

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Noel Peel

Digital Document Solutions That Actually Work

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January 30, 2019

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Noel Peel

How to Schedule Your Day to Maximize Productivity in the Legal Profession

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January 30, 2019

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Noel Peel

7 of the Most Controversial Supreme Court Nominations in History

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January 30, 2019

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Noel Peel

Building Your Law Firm Cybersecurity System from the Ground Up

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January 30, 2019

By:

Noel Peel

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