I went to visit a friend. We spent hours drinking coffee

Lydia overheard Sterling discussing a major merger case assigned to Judge Vance—unaware she

was standing beside him. He bragged, “She won’t see them,” referring to buried environmental reports,

and later admitted a deserving law student’s internship application had been “misplaced” to benefit Madison.

Lydia realized the waitress he had wronged was likely continue reading …