The National Law Journal‘s New York office is located in a block-sized building in the Financial District. Exit one side of the building and you spy the New York Stock Exchange. Exit the other, and there’s Zuccotti Park, spiritual and, for several months, physical home of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

As you can imagine, we heard a lot of drums and chanting this year as we did our work. In fact, as I write this, demonstrators have returned for a night of protest.