He had been going to retire that summer anyway — he had a date, there was going to be a dinner, Rasmussen’s son was taking the corporate work.

People ask me whether that makes it hollow.

Whether disbarring a man four months before he stops working is anything at all.

And the answer is that it is the only thing in this entire account that actually took something away from somebody.

My mother lost a board seat she did not need.

I lost two point eight million dollars I did not miss.

Russell Tannehill is a man whose entire identity was being a lawyer, and he is not one, and the reason is on a public order that his grandchildren will find.