This year, in my effort to make the sentiment a bit more personal, I bought a variety of cards and debated over who gets cards featuring Santa, Frosty, or the Far Side.  After all was said and done, my hands hurt, and I was out of  5 or 6 hours of work. Last year, that would have been 5 hours that could have been spent billing something. Frankly, the cards were a better time even if my hand hurt when it was all said and done.  Nothing that some holiday ‘nog couldn’t numb.

So where am I going? I have to give a shout out to the Akin Gump Christmas card highlighted on Above the Law. It’s pretty clever and kudos for poking fun at our profession. Taking ourselves a little less seriously and embracing that inner child is what the holidays should be about.

So in this New Year, let’s resolve to have a little more fun and be a little less serious. Last year was rough and this year needs to put that behind us.

The new Chapter 7 filings — which rose from 9,584 to 15,363 — highlight the continued drag of the recession, said Jessica Gabel, a bankruptcy professor at Georgia State University’s College of Law.