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Litigation

Dec. 17, 2008

Bad Day at the Office? Try Diving Off An Antarctic Ice Floe in Boxer Shorts

Sean Farrell, a transactional lawyer and litigator with Manly & Stewart in Newport Beach, is also an adventurer. He says traveling in the world's most inhospitable places as taught him "the importance of not being a jerk" in the office. If you're stuck in a tent with the same guy for weeks, you can't be a slob or take more than your share of the food, he says.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - Many young professionals boast that they give 110 percent. Newport Beach lawyer Sean Farrell, on the other hand, goes by a 30 percent rule.

Farrell's rule calls on him to be prepared to complete vital tasks when he is only at 30 percent of his best.

Why, you might ask, would anyone want to do anything while operating at one-third strength? For that matter, how does one get down ...

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