Chapter 14: Five Years Later

The Adair Center for Criminal Defense takes the cases nobody else will take. Three hundred and eleven clients last year. Twenty-two states. Nine lawyers trained on full scholarship who could not have afforded a single semester otherwise. Acquittal-or-dismissal rate above seventy percent, which is a number I am not allowed to be proud of out loud, so I'm saying it here. My office has windows. That still surprises me some mornings. Theo is twenty-four and in his second year of law school,...