When Jim came to collect me to go out I told him that I felt like shit and tried to get out of it. The clients, high rolling red necks based out of Texas who were now doing business on the east coast, had come to Jim's firm specifically to do business with me. They, like many others since the Winthrop trial, were dying to give their contracts to Mark Phillips, the only attorney to ever defeat Reggie McAllister. In that, the Carson case was everything I had wanted it to be. Clients were flocking to the firm in droves and all asking for me. It had been part of...