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I work for a company that manages and tracks gift cards and we blog about gift cards on savvywallet.com. I just want to comment on the American Express gift card gift. Be aware that many gift cards expire (in some states) and they charge transaction fees. Also be careful when stores decide to file for bankruptcy. Retailers are not required to honor your gift card. Consider this: last year $100B was spent on gift cards, and about $8B was lost/unredeemed. Be smart, when you have gift cards, spend it!

You may be interested to select your dream graduation gift on http://eDivvy.com -- a group gift buying website. You can split the cost of buying products, not just gift cards.

May I please suggest that if it is a law school graduation you consider "The LawTunes Jury Boxed Set" -- four CDs of humorous original law-related rock-and-roll songs composed and produced by this practicing attorney?

The unique set is composed of independent music label LawTunes' (www.LawTunes.com) four innovative albums: "The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre," "Merry Lexmas From The Lawtunes," "Legal Holidaze," and "The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album." The songs, which incorporate a broad spectrum of popular/classic rock-and-roll styles, take on the law, lawyers, and legal practice in a hilarious, but positive, way. They cover (and will help prepare your law grad for) the spectrum of life (and strife) as an attorney, "including but not limited to" bar exams, ridiculous hours and the other sacrifices lawyers (and their families) make, client relations, the adversarial system, the art of negotiating, time records and legal bills, impossible deadlines, legal reasoning and argument, cross-examination, business travel, lawyer marketing, headhunters and lateral movement, continuing legal education, mountainous document review and production, legal citation style, expert witnesses, and year-end bonuses.

The albums even include -- believe it or not -- a few "love songs," expressed, of course, in the language of an attorney.

LawTunes' efforts are dedicated to the proposition that lawyers' zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness of lawyers to poke fun at themselves appropriately on occasion. They contribute to the effort to make people think a little differently about lawyers, and show that attorneys are not necessarily humorless, boring, or incapable of self-deprecation.

So do something special to celebrate the achievement of your new law school graduate, or pre-law grad, or paralegal school grad, and order a copy of "The LawTunes Jury Boxed Set" or any of the individual CDs at www.LawTunes.com. (Individual albums are also available at major online venues including Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby.) Your graduate will appreciate your thoughtfully introducing him or her to "the musical scales of justice."

Further information, cover art, and song clips are available at www.LawTunes.com. Thanks.

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