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Archive Issues of NJALA's Jer-Z-Journal
Fall/Winter 2008
(R)evolving Times: Where are you going?
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Summer/Fall 2008
Maximizing Your Green • Green Employees
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Spring/Summer 2008
Break The Cycle of Stress
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Winter/Spring 2008
Going Green
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Fall/Winter 2007
Working After Retirement • Strategic Planning • Working with the New Jersey State Bar Association • Caveat Emptor
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Summer/Fall 2007
Ethical Law Office • Partner Compensation • Planning Office Space • CRM
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Winter/Spring 2007
Civil Unions • Body Language • The Paper Trail • What's in a Name
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Fall 2006
Training • Recruiting • Emoticons • War or Peace
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Summer 2006
Due Diligence • Associate Retention • Successful Retreat • Effective Business Communication
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Spring 2006
Dynamic Mid-Sized Law Firms • Ethics In Your Firm • Performance Records Retention • Identity Theft
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Winter 2006
Changes Affecting Finance • Dealing with Difficult People • Vendor Sponsor • Converging Networks
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Fall 2005
Business Continuation Plan • Disaster Preparedness • Employee Assistance• Shelter-In-Place
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Summer 2005
Evaluating Profitability • Dignity & Respect at Work • Managing Ethics Issues • Being Social • Communicating to Get Things Done• Developing Internal Education Programs
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Spring 2005
Technology Tips • San Francisco • 50 Best Places to Work • Outsourcing • Substance Abuse • Anti Terrorism
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Winter 2005
Education • Revenue Generation and CRM • Successful Summer Associate Program • Guarding Against Conflicts
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Fall 2004
Education Workshops • Budgeting for Law Firms • "Star-Making" • Mentoring
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Summer 2004
Education Workshops • Retreat Planning • HR & Benefits • Vendor Prospective • Professional Development• Websites
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Spring 2004
Education Workshops • HR & Benefits • Ode to New Jersey • HR & Laws • HR & Retirement • HR & Technology
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Winter 2004
Online Cash Management • Personnel Files Set-up • Lessons from the Ark • Ethics and Advertising • Business Interruption Insurance
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Fall 2003
Education Workshops • The Art of Fung Shui • Performance Reviews • Health Insurance Overview • Trust Accounting Workshop
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Summer 2003
Education Workshops • The Art of Discipline • Tax Law Changes • Americans With Disabilities Act • The Reality of Sales in Law Firms
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Spring 2003
Wage and Hour Workshop • The Certified Legal Manager • Cost Savings Measures in Health Insurance • Our Civic Duty: Military Leave • Everything Old is New Again (Part 2)
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FUN WITH MENSA
1. [a]. Sally likes perfect squares. Sally likes 1600.
2. [c]. One typist types one page in two minutes.
3. [c]. 21:00. Two hours later (23:00 - one hour before midnight) is half the time until midnight as one hour later (22:00 - two hours before midnight).
4. [b]. 1/10 of 400 is 40. 1/4 of 40 is 10. 1/2 of 10 is 5.
5. [d]. 20. If you found 10, you forgot about 70, 71, etc. If you got 11, you forgot about the 70 series, but remembered 77 had 2; if you got 19, you forgot about the extra 7 in 77; if you got 21, you created a 7 out of thin air.
6. 21. Each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.
7. [c]. 10 meters. sqrt(3*3 + 4*4) * 2. They make two right triangles.
8. [b]. No. The other 800 elephants can be any mix of all blue and pink and green stripes.
9. POST. POSTcard POSTbox POSTcode POSTbag POSThaste.
10. [d]. Each number is the cube of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
11. PARACHUTE.
12. CON. CONsign, CONdone, CONduct, CONfound, CONfirm, CONtract, CONdense.
13. LAND. Grassland, LANDscape.
14. BANALITIES.
15. [e]. Flower. The only one not made by man.
16. 12. Four years ago, Jane was eight. Sam was four. In four years from now, Jane will be 16 and Sam will be 12.

