Sterling Capital pays four hundred fifty dollars an hour for senior defense counsel.”

“I was in the hospital with a fever of one hundred two on March fourteenth,” I said, laying my hands flat on the edge of his scarred desk.

“I’ve got the intake slip from Oakridge Memorial proving I couldn’t have signed an addendum in his downtown office that morning.”

Arthur pushed his glasses up again, his fingers leaving tiny smudges on the wire frames.

“Unless we get an official court subpoena for the original document ledger, Judge Lawson is going to enforce prenuptial contracts by the strict letter of the written law.”