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>> I'm EJ Bouler [phonetic] I am just
recently promoted to general council,

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and I'm at Tech Inc [assumed
spelling] it's an IT services company,

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so I have been in house council
and I got the big promotion.

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It's not really a huge difference,
so I'm hoping.

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So I had to advise the company on everything
legal, so if we get sued by anyone,

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or if we sue anyone, then I have to sort of,
it buys them kind of the best route to take,

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and then if it's out of my area of expertise,
I'll find the right outside council and bring

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in various other, other lawyers to help out.

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So, I come from a family of lawyers, so I
have like the brother that's in employment

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and then you know, a cousin that's in mergers.

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And so I, so that's all sort of bring in people,

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and then from law school,
connections are made it school.

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So, so that's what I do, and I also review
all the contracts for the companies,

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so we have federal practice, but it's still for
the government contracting that are specific

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to that, so I have to be up on all
those, the federal regulations,

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and then we do a commercial work and education,
plus and be able to do contract review

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for basically any part of the company, and then
in any state and we operate in Canada, India,

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and the U.S. So it's not the same by
any means, it's not one of those jobs

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where you know what you're going to do.

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But I come in, so usually I'm on
phone calls for a couple hours a day.

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It's some there's always
someone that has some issue.

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Someone, but maybe they violated
a non competing agreement,

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or we want to do some work
we haven't done before.

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Not sure of use sort of can we
match up our, our company's work

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with another companies subcontracting agreement.

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I'll be on the phone explaining these
constants for maybe a third of the day.

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And that's just a broad spectrum of things.

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And then probably another third of the day,
I'm actually weeding through contracts and sort

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of redlining like each, every
thought you know, it's all.

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And then the rest of this each,
ev-- that we got, you know it's all.

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And the rest is it's just, you never know.

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I mean there's just so many things
that come through or you know,

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we've got almost 1,000 employees
like I said, all over the world,

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so I'm the legal so anything, all
kinds of crazy things come through.

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So it's just, the rest you never know.