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{{a|work|}}All right, my little chicklings. This is a heartfelt plea to you on behalf of those of us who’ve been in this game for years and are obliged, by regulation,<ref>All right this isn’t strictly true anymore, but it sort of is.</ref> to sit through [[continuing professional development]] seminars, to make them at least ''tolerable'' and, if you can, ''entertaining''.   

Now I am telling you this not primarily for ''your'' own good, but ''mine''. I crave enlightenment, or failing that entertainment, or failing that distraction, and preferably all three — having spent an hour of my time on an exercise, I yearn to depart with ''something'' for my trouble: some kind of enrichment to my lived experience, to borrow a voguish expression. I wish to be in some way better equipped, better informed, armed with better anecdotes, even if it won’t realistically move the needle much on my professional acumen. Well, let’s face it, it won’t will it?

But what is good for me is good for you: if I must be spoken at for seventeen hours a year — and I must: the Law Society says so — this the chance for those who will do the speaking to sell themselves to me. So, ''please'': transport me away from my [[tedious]] mortal shell. Telescope me into a wondrous new world where I am piqued, thrilled, bettered and, mostly, ''entertained''.