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Hey everyone, Ellie here, bringing you the final Friday podcast of the year 2020, hard to believe. First of all, as you probably

know, my new book is coming out in January. It is called Untouchable. How powerful people get away

with it. Please check it out. We love pre-orders. Second of all, much more importantly, thank you.

Thank you to everybody for reading, for listening. It's really such a

privilege and a joy to do this column for you all and to do this podcast for you all. Love hearing from

you all. By the way, the selections this week are largely drawn on people who you all suggested

and nominated. So thank you. I hope you have a great holiday season and a great new year,

and we'll see you in

January. Here we go. For our final podcast of 2022, I'll start with a confession.

Sometimes I worry that I'm too negative in this space.

If you know me in real life, you know that I'm an optimist.

I tend to give others the benefit of the doubt, and I do not enjoy trashing people or their

work.

But criticism is in the nature of what we do

here. We aren't cheerleaders, and our job is to assess the actions of powerful people in and around

the law. So as regular readers know, I will let it rip when warranted, always with an effort to

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