‘Let’s give it another ten.’
I used five of those minutes to run backgrounds on the names I’d glimpsed on the subpoena: Orbolt Holdings and McLeod-Dixon Enterprises.
According to the web, OH was a property, fiscal and environmental entrepreneurship specialist—whatever that meant—while MDE was into research and technology. From there, it seemed opaque, if not fishy, and my mind wandered into what sort of deal they’d been involved in that’d gone sour, and how Vaucluse and Vaucluse tied in.
After another two minutes, I’d discovered our client was on the board of OH and he was a property lawyer for a different Collins Street firm.
I wasted the rest of the extra ten shooting blanks on his wife and wishing I’d seen the schedule attached to the Form 42C specifying what evidence she had to giv
