I consented to the engagement and explained the conflict between my marriage and the companies involved.

I would not ask one family-law attorney to solve a network intrusion, a loan default, a succession agreement, and a divorce in an afternoon simply because I trusted him.

The corporate lawyer asked what I had known before that morning.

I answered plainly: the Apex interest, the family succession arrangements in general, and my own portfolio.

Not the nearly $90 million link to Vanguard, not the recent breach, and not the attempted transfer.

“Then we’ll establish each separately,” she said.