You Find an Alien Artifact on an Exoplanet. Do You Apply the Law of Salvage or Finds?

Clients never provided their lawyers enough time, and this was one of those times.

Joseph Stern walked as fast as Yoel Aronson, first mate on the Copernicus, not only because he could but because he had to. Aronson, who seldom saw cause for formalities, had come and fetched the lawyer himself.

There was only one problem. “I don’t see how I can brief her. I’ve had no time to prepare, and—” Joseph paused for both breath and emphasis “—you still haven’t told me what it’s about.”

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