Brad Nichols was a homegrown lawyer. His family had been in the area for over a hundred years. He knew everyone in town so he could be objective about disputes that clients came to him with. He was the type that didn’t take sides and since he knew the people, he knew what they wanted out of the deal. He was fair and just.
Brad knew he shouldn’t take on clients at times and worked it out so he wasn’t anyone's legal representative but got them to settle a fair deal without any of the messy side effects that came with it. The big downfall to all of this was that he didn’t make nearly the income he could have if he had practiced anywhere else but his hometown. He had debated coming back home to open his practice just for this reason alone, but he couldn’t imagine living anywhere else but her
