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Thinking, responsible employees need autonomy to keep their brains from dying, says The Assistant-at-Law. But some lawyers are too busy breathing down their assistants' necks and hand-holding us through every little task to imagine that, if they threw their assistants the occasional challenge, they might just rise to it.

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In re Estate of Washington

(Tex.App. Dist.6 06/30/2009)

Attorney's fees expended in connection by one who contests his own removal as administrator of the estate, especially where the evidence fails to show that the contest for the administratorship was in the interest of the estate, but indicates it was rather in the interest of the removed administrator, should not be permitted. Texarkana Court of Appeals, No. 06-08-00121-CV, 07-01-2009.

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