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The    (Attorney and/or Law Firm)    will copy the Attorney General’s designee(s) with all correspondence during the term of this Agreement, including, but not limited to, dispositive motions/pleadings and memoranda in support thereof.  (For non-litigation matters, no case style is needed.  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