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19 TALL Newsl. 1 (1999-2000)

handle is hein.journals/tallquart19 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 19, no 1 November 1999 TALL Newsletter TOOT ASCATO OF LA LIRRE QUO FATA FERUNT - Or, Swept Away (By An Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of November) by James Spence IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT... Late Friday evening October 31, 1997, I left the offices of Weir & Foulds: Barristers & Solicitors, where I had worked for nearly nine years, for the last time. I made my way through the tunnels of Fort First Canadian Place and into the TTC subway system. Eventually, I surfaced into a typical late October Toronto evening, dark, wet, windy and chilly. It would be my last night in T.O. for what likely would be a long time: maybe forever. I wasn't' feeling particularly emotional about this. More numb thinking about the thousand and one details that uprooting one's life bring to mind, and occasionally giddy at the thought of the uncharacteristically unusual turn my career had taken. The following Monday morning, November 3, 1997, 1 walked in brilliant sunshine past palm and palmetto trees and oleander hedges into the Hamilton, Bermuda offices of Conyers Dill & Pearman: Barristers & Attorneys, (CD&P) to begin my new job as the firm's librarian. To say that I was somewhat disoriented in those first few days (okay, weeks) would not quite capture the complete state of utter confusion and sensory overload that I was in. I doubt that I will ever be so happy again to see a set of Halsbury's Laws. When I saw those worn brown covers in my newly inherited library, it was like meeting an old friend in a strange place-at last, a familiar face! (Continued on page 4) Inside... Continuing Education 16 * Editor's Notes 3 * From the Literature 14 IRQ's 11 Please.. .make a note of it 17 * President's Message 3 Technology Talk 9 Vol. 19, no I November 1999

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