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EDITH
When I arrived at the office that afternoon, I was immediately sent by my boss to join the team to check the briefs in the Desmond case. Ten thousand pages to go through in less than three days. I hated briefs!
I had tried to explain to Simon that the Crein brothers' case wasn't going well and that a problem had cropped up, but he wouldn't let me talk.
"I don't know if I can do it... Here...", I had tried to confess, as Jake's words hammered in my brain. A smart lawyer knows when to abandon ship before it sinks . And mine had long since sunk.
"I trust you. Put the ball in your court and come home with a win,' he had told me, sending me out of his office.
I then spent the whole day reading and highlighting pages upon pages, until Simon
