I opened with the worst possible move, which was tactics.

I said it would not work.

I said she was a lawyer eight months into a license and that staging a service of process at a social event was going to end up in front of somebody at the State Bar, and did she really want her first disciplinary letter framed next to her wedding photo.

And Odile said, without any heat: “I’ve looked at it.

Service at a private event isn’t prohibited.