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When John Marshall Law School professor Michael Mears was a young trial lawyer 30 years ago, he found himself paired in a land acquisition case with one of Georgia’s preeminent tax attorneys. Randolph Thrower, a veteran partner at Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and former head of the Internal Revenue Service, gave Mears some advice that Mears says is still among the best he’s received about any case or about the practice of law in general.