# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Eleven — New Counsel
Diana Patel called Mia on a Tuesday morning and the first thing she said was: "I've read everything."
Not hello. Not congratulations on finding the new counsel. Just: *I've read everything.* Which told Mia two things immediately — that she worked the way Mia worked, and that she was going to be difficult to keep up with, which was exactly what Thompson-Hayes needed right now.
"When can we meet?" Mia said.
"Tonight if you're free," Diana said. "I have questions that emails don't answer."
She came to the apartment at seven with a laptop and a yellow notepad and the energy of someone who had been on this case for six hours before the first official meeting. She was thirty-four, sharp-featured, with the particular quality o
