shaking. Time crawled by. Fifteen minutes before the deadline a messenger arrived with a new letter from Kaplan. In the space of an afternoon he’d moved from cease and desist to cease-fire. That day forged our siege mentality. To defend our tiny position, we unleashed hell on anyone who crossed us. For starters, we refused to take on any client who used Kaplan, Livingston, and within five years the firm was defunct. I’m not saying we did them in, but we did help nudge them toward the edge. Our counterassault on William Morris took longer to deploy but proved nearly as effective. And
