The Rainmaker
“Deck bounds through my door, waving the envelope. “It’s here! It’s here! We’re rich!”He rips open the envelope, delicately removes the check and places it gently on my desk. We admire it. Twenty-five thousand dollars from State Farm! It’s Christmas.Since Derrick Dogan is still on crutches, we rush to his house with the paperwork. He signs where’s he’s told to sign. We disburse the money. He gets exactly $16,667, and we get exactly $8,333. Deck wanted to stick him for a few expenses—copying, pos...tage, phone charges, nitpicking stuff most lawyers try to squeeze from the clients at settlement time—but I said no.We say good-bye to him, wish him well, try and act a bit despondent over this entire sad little episode. It’s difficult.We’ve decided to take three thousand each, and leave the rest in the firm, for the inevitable lean months ahead. The firm buys us a nice lunch at a fashionable restaurant in East Memphis. The firm now has a gold credit card, issued by some desperate bank obviously impressed with my status as a lawyer.MoreLess
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