We’ve become extremely busy, and we are trying out of counsel attorneys, we think we need 2 maybe full time ones, but I would rather have 4 part time ones, because often it’s we need to get things in quicker rather than we have time to get this stuff done. I think the best ones will get the work, and the other ones will fall off.

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