Here we Oh, excuse me, isn't the staff meeting at 9.30?
You're in the wrong conference room.
This is a feature class action.
A case that will propel us to the top rank of full-service firms,
and I don't think I need to remind you what that'll do to your year-end bonuses.
firm because they took their eye off the ball.
So until further notice your personal lives have been canceled.
So we'll need some of you to help out with the lower profile client work to free up our top litigators.
Ed, you take the witness prep on highway redistribution.
Don, you take the Brighton criminal and at least you'll take the pro bono.
Everyone else your task is to Shiffrin Marks our aid game.
I'm sorry I didn't introduce you in there.
Everything's moving real fast with this class action.
Well, I just wanted to say thank you.
for the opportunity, it's a real lifesaver.
Well, glad you could come aboard.
Hope you're alright with this pro bono, how'd it sound?
You worried about the gunshot residue?
Nice ringtone, who gets that?
Oh, my mother-in-law, my daughter programmed it.
Diane, you're briefing Alicia, right?
Have So, we'll speak highly of you.
He says you graduated top of your class at Georgetown.
And you spent two years at Crozier, Abrams, You're good hands.
Will says you clocked the highest billable hours there.
Well, the kids and Peter's career.
I want you to think of me as a mentor, Alicia.
It's the closest thing we have.
to an old boys network in this town, women helping women, okay?
But I was starting out, I one great piece of advice.
Men can be lazy, women can't.
And I think that goes double for you.
Not only are you coming back to the workplace fairly long.
but you have some very prominent baggage.
But hey, if she can do it, so can you.
Like many law firms, we donate 5% of fillable hours to pro bono.
Sadly, I'm long past my quote on this one.
Jennifer taught second grade, accused of killing your ex-husband.
Prosecution thought it was a slam dunk 45 years, but the jury came back last week, deadlocked.
Six chairs voted to convict, six not.
I'm not even sure why the state attorney is retrying except he wants justice.
He wants to prove himself.
So with my strategy from the first trial.
The police focused on Jennifer so early in the investigation they never even looked for the carjacker.
Deadlock, a jury a second time, they'll never retry a third, OK?
OK, our investigator can get you up to speed for the bail hearing of three.
Well, we could delay, but that would leave Jennifer and Carcerie to turn another month.
Don't worry, it'll be fine.
The ASA is not going to argue against a recognizance release.
Oh, I think it's a two-player.
