"Previously on The Practice:" " Restrain his..." " Permission to smack him." "Hey, don't intimidate me." "What are you doing?" "Cowards make me crazy." "Your Honor, he vowed that he knew where I lived and he said it with vicious malice." " I used to be a lawyer, remember?" " Terrible lawyer." "Jimmy, you never won a case." "I'm right for this one." "You gave the tobacco case to Lindsay even though she'd never done a jury trial." " You had a feeling and you went with it." " I don't have that feeling here." "Oh, okay." " Hundred bucks says you lose." " You wanna bet on it?" "You took this court appointed, right?" "Well, that means your fee tops at 700." "Now, I am just giving you the chance to make 8." "You sit here today remembering the placement of lampposts the color of the surrounding cars, the exact time to the minute but as for what the suspect looked like, black, big head." "Small bills only." "There is no case, ladies and gentlemen." "They bring up two officers from the Vice Squad who say they saw a woman they believe to be a prostitute give money to my client." "And then they automatically leap to the conclusion that Kenny Tripp is a pimp." "What kind of evidence is that?" "Now, what kind of story was his?" ""She was paying off on a football bet." That's what Kenny Tripp says." "A woman is observed orally copulating a man." "The man is then seen remunerating the woman." "The woman is then seen giving money to the defendant:" "A man with two previous convictions for running a prostitution ring." "And he says she was paying him because the Dolphins didn't cover against the Patriots." "No offense, but I liked his closing better than yours." "This case is circumstantial." "We have a very good shot." "Plus, we have grounds for an appeal." "Let's not forget that." "Yeah, but if we put in I got a girlfriend, it would have made me look caring." "We were limited by the fact that you don't have a girlfriend." "Yeah, but if you had put it in, I would have got one." " How did it go?" " Great for the DA." "I gotta pee." "They're not gonna follow me and give me a urine test, are they?" " I think you're safe." " Okay." " Oh, Eugene." " Don't tell me." "Oh, yes, me." "Look, I got that file." " You asked for the file?" " Oh, damn right I did." "The thought of beating you in court is just too hard for me to resist." " Hey, Ellie." " How you doing, Renee?" "But you won't beat me." "All you got again is one eyewitness." "Well, we could bet again, couldn't we?" "Same rider?" " You got it." " You're on." "Pardon me." "One second." " Did you make a bet on the Maynard trial?" " I did indeed." "I know you're excellent defending armed robbers and you love cross-examining eyewitnesses, but..." " Don't bet him, Lindsay." " No, no, no." "The woman was held up by a one-legged man." "She ID'd our client, who happens to have one leg who was also picked up hopping three blocks from the scene with the victim's wallet." " Don't bet him." " Don't bet him?" "Don't bet him?" " I'd just be taking your money." "Another hundred." "Same rider." "Accepted." "As we speak." "Am I late?" "Cutting it close, Teddy." "Huge line downstairs." "Some guy was sneaking in a staple gun." "Said it was because he had thick pleadings." "Thick pleadings." "Man, you believe that?" "The judge is coming in, Eugene." "Let's go." "Teddy Maynard." "Hello." "She's the DA, Teddy." "I'm single and innocent and allowed to date on bail." "A dog bite." "I ask for my first real assignment and you give me a dog bite?" " A lot of our cases are small, Jimmy." " Right." "It may not go to the Supreme Court, but I take it seriously." "Bobby, my sinuses are acting up from all the dust on this file." "It hasn't been touched in a year." "Just cover the depositions." "Can you do that, please?" "Fine." "Dog bite." "Excuse me." "This is completely out of line, but you're a very beautiful woman." "Do I know you?" "No." "That came from nowhere." "I'm sorry." "Oh, well, thank you." "Hey, listen, you guys have nothing to worry about." "There's no way they're gonna convict your client." " Oh, you were in the courtroom?" " So much for you noticing me, I guess." "I'm on the jury." "I'm sorry, I can't talk to you." "What exactly did he say?" "Exactly what I said he said." "There's no way he'll be convicted." "All right." "And what exactly did you say?" "Nothing." "I told him I couldn't talk to him, but it's still communication." "I had a communication with a juror." "I gotta go to the judge." "But you didn't communicate with him." "But even so, technically, under the rules, we have a mistrial." "But this isn't fair." "Not to Kenny." "He's not..." "He's gonna forfeit an acquittal because some horny juror tries to hit on you?" "The case is closed." "All the evidence is in." "What are you suggesting?" "That we don't tell?" "It's not like the process has been tainted." "It's not like we were trading on inside information." "I mean, okay." "Did you try to influence him in any way?" " Of course not." " Did you discuss the case or did you try to get...?" " Nothing." "As soon as I learned he was a juror, I shut him down." "I don't see how it has any effect." "I say we don't tell." "Ellenor?" "I had just left the ATM machine." "I was putting the money into my wallet when he hopped up." " He being?" " That man." "The defendant." "Had you ever seen this man before, Miss Bancock?" "Yes, about two minutes before." "I passed him on the sidewalk." "He asked for change." " Did you give him any money?" " No, it's not my practice." "I just kept walking." "Then, like I said, after I left the ATM, there he was again." "And what happened then?" "He told me, if I didn't give him my wallet he'd knock me down and hop up and down on my head, ball to heel." "Then he just snatched it out of my hand and went bounding down the street." " And did you see him again after that?" " The next morning." "I came down to the police station." "They had him in custody." "Where in custody did you see him?" "In a lineup." "He was just standing there, like a flamingo." "Miss Bancock, are you absolutely sure that that is the man that robbed you?" "Of course I'm sure." "I'd recognize him anywhere." "That's the man." "If anybody threatens to assault me or my client there will be repercussions." "I will not be intimidated." "I will assert myself at all times, possibly to the detriment of others." "I'm here on the dog-bite matter." "Oh, that's me." "James Berluti." "Nice to meet you." "I was here when Eugene mugged your client." " I don't do that." " I'm heartened." "Look, I think that you would agree that this case is hardly worth our time." "And I was hoping we could settle this amicably without having to conduct the depositions." "Of course, I do reserve the right to remain assertive." "Eighty-two thousand." "I deeply beg your pardon?" "I did the jury-verdict research." "A bite on the lip, residual scarring..." " Eleven stitches and she provoked the dog." " She went to pet him." "Mr. Berluti, my time is valuable." "Your time is valuable." "My client is an oncologist." "His time is exceptionally valuable." "Do you think we should proceed with two time-consuming depositions over 11 stitches and a dog bite?" "It would seem so." "The insurance company has authorized 24,000." "Well, let's split the difference and go 75." "Then I will see you and your client this afternoon." " Have you booked a court reporter?" " Three o'clock?" "Until then." "Miss Bancock, as I read the police report you described the area of the assault, the conditions, you knew the exact time." "You provide a lot of detail." "Well, there's nothing routine about being mugged, Mr. Young." " Things tend to stick." " Yes, I see." "But when it came time to describing the suspect you just said, "Black, one leg."" " That's it." " I think that description limits the field." "Yes." "But you don't describe anything about his face, except the color." "Just black." "And one leg." "When a man hops out at you in the dark on one foot you don't tend to notice how long his sideburns are." "I can appreciate that, Miss Bancock." "More than you know." "We do nothing and we say nothing." "What that guy said has absolutely no effect." " Technically..." " Technically." "Technically, it's a mistrial." "If we were using the information in any way, that would be one thing." "But we're not." "We are doing nothing but waiting for a verdict." "Ellenor." " Frank, how's it going?" " Weak-kneed." "Look, if you plead guilty, I'll offer six months." " What?" " On Tripp." "What?" "You look as if you'd seen a ghost." "This is like a gift." "Six months." "You should be jumping on that." "Yeah, well, I'm not." "We're all feeling really good about the trial, aren't we?" " Oh, great." " Yeah." "Yeah, well, take it to your client." "Something tells me he'll dance." "Great." "Mr. Donnell said that this would settle." "It will." "There's no way they'll bother over small potatoes like this." "They'll settle." "And why isn't Mr. Donnell bothering to do these depositions?" "Well, he's got a big murder trial starting up next week and he didn't want you short-changed, so he put me on full-time." "Susan?" "Honey?" "Hi." "My name is Jim." "I'm just gonna ask you some questions about what happened, that's all." "Nothing too hard." " This should be pretty easy, okay?" " Okay." " I'll be right beside you the whole time." " Okay." "Ellenor..." " Hey, Ellie, they still out?" " Yup." "Still." "Look, can you just give us a few seconds?" "And then we need to talk." " How can we not tell him?" " No, we just present the DA's offer." " Ellenor, he's the client." " Yes, I know." "But if we tell him, then the information comes into play and then we have to go to the judge." "So, what are we gonna say?" "All right, we are going to convey the DA's offer." "If he turns it down, what that juror said is meaningless." "If he accepts the deal, then it's an entirely different story." "We should just go to the judge now." "All right." "In which case, Kenny loses his acquittal because of some stupid rule that doesn't..." "What's going on?" " Nothing." " Nothing." "What's going on?" "Just a girl thing." "Can you send Kenny in?" "Sure." " Why can't we tell Bobby?" " Lf he knows, then he's incriminated." " Lawyers have a duty to report, remember?" " I know." " Kenny, why don't you have a seat." " Something's wrong." "I've got this gland thing." "It works like radar when something's wrong." "Sit." "Well, were they like big, loping hops?" "Or just little hops?" "They were hops, for God's sake." "How many ways could there be to hop?" "Well, forgive me for being a nuisance." "But your description was only "black, one leg."" " Is your testimony that all hops look alike?" " Objection, Your Honor." "Here he goes again, making this about race when he knows..." " I'm not doing that." "I'm just..." " Counsel." "Please." " Is this for real?" " Oh, I assure you, Your Honor this is very real and very serious." "He robbed her." "And I object as much as you do to what Mr. Young here is doing." "Your Honor, I'm going somewhere with this." "Hurry up and get there." "Step back." " Double or nothing?" " Absolutely." "And I just went up to pet him." "And he growled real fast and bit me." "All right, Susan." "Now, do you remember what direction you approached him from?" "Was it from the front?" "Was it from the back?" "Was it from the side?" " From the front." " Do you think you scared him a little?" "He was practically bigger than me." "Well, maybe scared isn't the right word." "Do you think maybe you surprised him a little?" "I just put my hand up to pet him." "Well, was it possible that you put it too close?" "He's making it out my fault." "Susan, he's just asking questions to find out what happened." " I just went up to pet him." " I understand." "It's okay." "Susan, how many inches did you put your hand up to his mouth?" " I don't know." " Let's pretend you're the dog." "Did you put your hand up about this close?" " I don't know." " Was it possibly this close?" " I said, I don't know." " Was it maybe this close?" " Susan." " Move to strike." "Was that your fault?" "Let's break." "Look, we really need an answer, Kenny." "The jury could come back any second now." "Six months." "Six months." "I'm gonna take the offer." "You are." "What the hell's going on?" "What's going on is this case just became a mistrial." "I beg your pardon?" "A juror told me in the elevator there's no way you'd be convicted." " A juror." "On my trial?" " Yes." " Told you that?" " Yes." "Am I missing something here?" "I mean, shouldn't we all be celebrating?" "Kenny, communication with a juror is pretty much an automatic mistrial." "Why we didn't tell you is because if you didn't know, you couldn't trade on it." "And what that juror said was kind of irrelevant." "The bottom line is we gotta go to the judge." "She's gonna throw the case out and we're gonna have to try over again." "Are you saying that if we keep our mouths shut I'm looking at the big N. G?" "And you're planning to go back to the judge and get this case kicked?" "And I have to stand trial all over again?" " That's the rules." " That's the rules." " I'm looking at an acquittal here." " We don't know that for sure." "The guy was hitting on me." "He was trying to make an impression." "He might have had no clue as to what the other jurors were thinking." "Fine." "We chalk it up to flirtatious banter." "You ain't gotta go to the judge." "You don't understand, Kenny." "We have a certain ethical..." "Ellie, please." "I'm a free man." "I'm your client." "You're asking me to risk jail on a technicality?" "I can't even believe you're thinking about this." " Our hands are tied, Kenny." " Ellie, your hands are not tied, okay?" "They're not tied." "It's not as if you bribed a jury." "Okay, we're waiting..." "We're waiting for them to come back with a verdict." "Are you saying that I should be punished because one of them let the cat out of the bag early?" "That's ridiculous." "You can't do this to me, Ellie." "You can't." " Lf this were to ever get out..." " It won't." "I promise it won't." "You tell them just like you told me." "I'll ask the questions and you just tell the truth." "And don't get rattled." "It was good?" "What I told you, huh?" "Because I mean, I can change it if you think I need something better." "What do you mean you can change it?" "You didn't tell me the truth?" "Well, of course not." "I mean, you practically warned me not to." " You said you'd get stuck with it." " I didn't mean I wanted you to lie to me." " Your story, it's a lie?" " Certainly." " You did rob that woman?" " Of course." "But I mean, she was rude." "She didn't just not give me the change, all right?" "She gave me one of them looks like:" ""How dare you be in my eye line?" "How dare you belittle my day?"" " Oh, God." " I'm a very good liar, Mr. Young." "Look, I can't put you on the stand if I know you're gonna lie." " Why not?" " Well, it's against the law for me to do that." "If a lawyer knows his client's gonna lie he has an ethical obligation to talk him out of testifying." "Well, it's the truth, then." "I was lying about it being a lie." "Look, Mr. Young if I don't testify, I'm gonna get convicted." "Would I be wrong on that?" " No." " So I'm testifying." "Okay." "Just so you know the rules I gotta play by." "I can't suborn perjury which means you'll have to testify on the narrative." "What's that mean?" "It means I can't ask you questions." "Just get up there and tell your story." "That's all right." "Because I do better when I get a flow anyway." " It just comes." " Great." "Mr. Young." "You don't have to worry." "I'm very good at this." "Maybe we should just take the 24,000." "We can do better, Mrs. Stevenson." "I really believe that." "Honey, can you go see Rebecca for a sec?" " Yes." " Okay." "I'm sorry I bit the man." "He knows that, honey." "Go ahead, sweetie." "I really don't wanna put her through this." "She doesn't have to be here for the doctor's deposition." "If I can make a dent here, then maybe we can push this settlement up some." " I think we should keep going." " May I ask you a question?" "When did you take over this case?" "I don't mean to criticize, I'm just curious." " When was this passed on to you?" " This morning." "Mrs. Stevenson, this is just the discovery part of the case." "It's standard fact-finding." " I told you I didn't wanna go to trial." " I know." "But your case is in very capable hands with Jimmy here." "Yeah, and I've been reading up on animal behavior and stuff." "I think we'll be able to up the settlement." "I do." "Okay." "Okay." "Yeah." "Thank you." "And thank you." " Lf this ever gets out, we're disbarred." " It won't get out." "Suppose the juror talks." "Suppose he tells somebody he did me?" "Well, then he's in as much trouble as us." ""On the matter of The Commonwealth v. Kenny Tripp on the charge of 3213, operating prostitution services for fee we find the defendant guilty."" "Sentencing next Tuesday, 9:00." "Please take the defendant into custody." "I thought you said it was coming back N. G?" "Kenny, whatever you do, just stay tight." "Tight?" "You wanna see tight?" ""Look surprised."" " Do I look surprised enough?" " Don't say anything." "I'm coming right back to talk to you, okay?" "Just don't say anything." "I got a plan." "Let's go." "Now, what?" "What's the plan?" "You wanna repeat that?" "It won't sound any better." "No, but at least I can be reassured I didn't hear wrong." "A juror told us they were acquitting." "We told the client." "The client turned down a plea bargain because of this information." "Please tell me why the two of you shouldn't be thrown in jail?" "Your Honor, we didn't come in here to defend ourselves." "We came in here to say that Kenny should not be penalized for our misconduct." "Throw us in jail if you want, but not Kenny." "Just for my own education, why on earth would you take such a risk for this client?" "Is he related by blood?" "No, we just thought it seemed unfair for him to forfeit an acquittal because of some juror's big mouth and..." "Obviously, we made a considerable misjudgment." " For which we feel the client..." " I'm not overturning the conviction." "Your client participated in this dishonesty." "And I'm certainly not going to reward him for it." "The guilty verdict stands." "So as not to punish him unduly for the blatant and illegal action of his attorneys I'll sentence him to six months." " The same term that the DA was offering." " Thank you." "As for the two of you I'll be referring you to the Board of Bar Overseers." "And I'll be recommending immediate disbarment." "Don't you...?" "Don't you think that's a little severe?" "Not a bit." "That's all." "The defense calls Theodore Maynard." "Your Honor, may I approach?" "Your Honor, as an officer of the court I have to let my client testify in the narrative." "Did you try to dissuade him from testifying, counsel?" " I did." " Yeah, right." "I did." "He insisted." "Step back." "Members of the jury, a little departure from the norm." "Mr. Maynard, instead of testifying in the usual q  a form is simply going to state his version of the events in the narrative form." "Now, this is done sometimes." "It's just a different style." "Okay, sir." "Please state your name for the record." "And then you may begin." "My name's Theodore Maynard though everybody that knows me just calls me Teddy." "Shall I tell them how I lost my leg or stick to this case?" " The case." " All right." "It was a cold, dark night, kind of a clammy night." "The kind of night where you just knew something bad was gonna happen." "Just a couple questions, Dr. Manheim." "I appreciate you taking the time." "Certainly." " Your dog, his name is Ross?" " Yes." "I had an Uncle Ross once." "Dead." "Got the gout." "It isn't relevant to this here." " He's a Rottweiler?" " Yes, he is." "Beautiful dogs, if you like the big kind." "Now, when your Rottweiler bit Susan Stevenson did you actually see what happened, sir?" "I was talking to somebody else in the park so my eyes were going back and forth." "Who would this other person be, sir?" "It was a woman." "Someone I just met, actually." "She was walking her dog as well." "Both animals were on a leash, by the way." "I see." "You say you just met?" "You wouldn't have gotten her name, would you?" "Maybe a phone number?" " Actually, yes, I did." " Oh, good." "That makes things easier." "I'll get that later." "Her dog, what kind was that?" " I think it was a Shar-Pei." " Shar-Pei?" "An old girlfriend told me I looked like a Shar-Pei." "Personally, I didn't see it." "It isn't relevant to this here." "Perhaps, since we're all busy people, you could stick to what is relevant here?" "Of course." "You said you were looking back and forth." "What did you see, if you remember?" "Well, I noticed a young girl looking at Ross." "I think she then made a sudden movement, as if to pet him." "And I think she startled him." "That's when he nipped her." "Is your dog fixed or, you know, are you planning puppies?" "Neither." "When did you get this dog, doctor?" "Three years ago." "That's in the interrogatory as are all the answers to these questions." "I know." "Sorry." "I was doing some checking and I noticed your condo on the north end got robbed a week before you got this Rottweiler." "Would that be a coincidence?" "Not exactly." "You got this dog for a kind of security thing." "In part." "Also as a pet." "Ever take it to any dog obedience school?" "No, I trained him myself." "So you would be aware on the behavior of these animals?" " Come on, counsel." " No, I don't mean like you're an expert." "Just some basic things." "Are you aware that Rottweilers are an aggressive breed?" "More aggressive than average, yes." "And you'd know that males, especially unneutered males are most aggressive." "I don't think I knew that, but I believe you if you say it's so." "Now, you said you saw the little girl looking at the dog." "Did you know that looking into a dog's eyes is likely to be interpreted by the animal as an aggressive challenge?" " No, I didn't know that." " Okay." "What kind of food do you give him, generally?" "Dog food." "Scraps from the table sometimes." " High on protein?" " I haven't any idea." "Do you know that a high-protein diet for these kinds of animals can make them more aggressive?" "No, I didn't know that, counsel." "This is a dangerous animal you got, doctor." "I'd think you'd check up on some of these things." "Could we just please ask questions?" "The woman you met at the park..." "By the way, did you ever see her again?" "Yes, we had dinner a few times." "I think I'll take her name and number now." "Hey." "How did it go?" "How did it go?" "What?" "Kenny got six months." "He's..." "He's out, pending appeal on the probable cause issue." "With any luck, we'll get him out altogether." " Cool." " We, on the other hand..." "What?" "Things didn't go so good for us." "What happened?" "We're getting disbarred and it's her fault." " What?" " I should have never listened to you." " What?" " "Don't tell." "Don't tell."" " We were both in on this, Lindsay." " You kept saying, "Don't tell."" "Hey!" "There's a deposition going on here." " What's going on?" " You tell him." "No, you tell him, that way you can allocate blame." "You could have recused yourself..." "Hey." "Let's go to my office." "Now." "It's not that she wouldn't give me the change I get rejection every day but the way she wouldn't even look at me." "Like it would bring her down to acknowledge I was there." "Now, I joke about things all the time." "In fact, that's how I get by, I make jokes." "See, usually I can make everything a joke." "But this one kind of stuck with me." "Anyway I went around the corner on Tremont, where we all kind of hang out." "You know, panhandle central." "And Joey Free, the guy I told you about earlier he's also got one leg." "He starts yelling at me for being a victim." "Saying feeling sorry for myself was my worst problem." "And I just snapped back, "Easy for you to say, Mr. Crutch." "I can't even afford crutches."" "And Joey, he just jumps up throws his crutches to the ground and hops off." "About a minute later, he comes back, throws a wallet at me and says:" ""See?" "I'm no victim."" "The man had jumped up and snatched that woman's wallet." "Now, I had it when the police came, I certainly did, but I didn't take it." "It was Joey Free." "Except Free is not his real last name." "I kind of don't wanna turn him in." "There's certain codes we gotta live by." "But I'll be honest about this..." "Though I'm sure my lawyer will probably berate me for it later." " I wish it was me." "I wish I was the guy that jumped up and took that woman's money." "I'd be sitting prouder today if I hopped up to that woman and said, "I exist!"" "Now, I don't believe in stealing." "But if she was keeping in her wallet the idea that some people are less worthy than her then I'm glad she lost it." "Now, I didn't take it." "But I'd be proud to sit here and say that I did." "And that's the truth." "Why didn't you come to me?" "You would have gone along and you'd be in the same trouble." "I wouldn't have gone along." "I would have told the judge." " Oh, please, Bobby." "You never would..." " It was jury tampering." "We didn't tamper." "We only withheld..." "Ellenor, for God's sake, communication with a juror you go straight to the judge." "No question." " Even if we're gonna...?" " No question." "This is beyond stupid." "You risked your careers you completely jeopardized the reputation of this entire firm." " What could you've been thinking?" " The reputation of this firm." "What?" " Nothing." " Hey." "Reputation of this firm doesn't matter to you?" "Bobby, all we did was live up to your example." "You just sold out a client." "Lyle Roberts." "Let's not forget that." "You just finished arguing jury nullification." "You got a murderer off on the moral integrity of his cold-blooded execution." "What exactly do you think our reputation is here, Bobby?" "I mean, who are you kidding?" "We are reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee." "We are a bottom-feeding do-whatever-you-can- to-get-your-client-off law firm." "That is exactly what we are." "And what Lindsay and I did may not have been ethical." "It was completely in the spirit and the tradition of Bobby Donnell." "You wanna fire me?" "Go right ahead." "But please, please, Bobby." "Do not lecture me." "Were you here all night?" " Yup." " Why?" "I don't know, Beck." "You heard what Ellenor said?" "It escaped a little through the walls." "Bobby, I think the problem is this place isn't just you anymore." "There's also them." "And I think they got a good leader in you." "For not great leadership, you know?" " Maybe it's time for a meeting." " There's the door." "Nobody's stopping you." " Is he in there with somebody?" " I didn't see anybody else." "You walk out of here, I'll see you in court." " Hi." " What are you doing?" "I got a settlement conference in half an hour on the dog-bite case." "I'm not a good closer." "I come off too nice." "I gotta be strong, you know?" "I'm gonna come on strong, and since I don't shift gears good I'm getting ready." "I gotta be tough." "Got it." "Sorry to bother you." "You're gonna regret it." "You're definitely gonna regret it." "You walk out of here..." "She's not ID'ing the man who held her up." "She's identifying the man she saw in police custody." "She sees a one-legged man in the lineup, she figures it must be him." "She wants it to be the guy." "We all do." "So that we can feel safe." "That the bad guy is off the street." "What are the chances there could have been somebody else there that night with just one leg?" "Of course she was going to conclude that the man they had must be the guy." "But remember, she really couldn't identify the man's face." "She didn't give the police any description other than black, one leg, that was it." " Objection." "This is too much." " Counsel, get up here." "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but this goes way over the line." "I mean, to recruit black amputees to walk into the room in the middle of his closing argument?" " That's unbelievable, even for him." " I'm shocked." "Did you enlist those one-legged black people?" "Your Honor, my client is in an amputee support group." " His friends came to his trial." " Oh, right." " What do you think of me?" " Counsel." "They could have used crutches." "Or, I don't know, maybe a wheelchair?" "He deliberately had them hop." "I'm not sure this is something you can appeal." "Now, let him finish his closing." "Please." "Step back." "Two hundred thousand?" "Yesterday, you said 75." " Today, I got more facts." " You've got more facts?" " I've got more facts." " Let's hear your facts." "The facts are your guy bought a security dog." "A dangerous instrument he took no steps to train or even learn about." "He didn't know the risks of this animal, which makes him negligent or he did which makes him reckless, your pick." " So 200,000..." " I'm not finished with my facts." "Well, go ahead." " You want me to go ahead?" " I said, go ahead." "This was preventable." "Dogs like this need to be socialized." "This one wasn't." "Dogs like this need to be taught submissive behavior." "This one wasn't." "Dogs like this should be fed low-protein." "This one wasn't." "If he chooses to dispense with these precautions, fine." "It's his choice." "He takes the risk." "But if he's gonna go to a park a children's park and hit up on women and not even pay attention when he knows a child is 2 feet from his security Rottweiler he puts the child at risk too." "She lost her face." "He got a phone number and couple of dinner dates." "That's what the jury's gonna hear." "Is that right?" "That's right." "Two hundred thousand, nothing less." "I'll see you in court." "I doubt it." "What is this?" " Hi." " Yes." "One alternative offer." "What?" "What?" "What?" "One-fifty and whatever it takes to fix her face." " Excuse me?" " Your client's a doctor at Mass General." "I'm sure he's got lots of colleagues." "And I'm not talking about one operation." "It's whatever it takes to make her the pretty girl she was pre-Rottweiler." "That could turn out to be cheaper than 200 if he gets the right doctors." "One-fifty and her smile." "Final offer." " Tell Eugene he can wait here." " He expects the jury back any minute." " This doesn't even involve Eugene." " This does involve Eugene." "This is a meeting about this firm." "Eugene is a member of this firm." " Fine." " Ellenor?" "Look, let's just start." "He gets here when he gets here, okay?" "Okay, first, the disbarment proceeding." "I will represent both of you." " We shouldn't get independent counsel?" " We should." "But on this, I think I can be more persuasive." "Okay, now, let's clear the air about all this being in the spirit of my tradition." "Ellenor?" "I cleared my air yesterday, Bobby." "We bend, we fold, we mutilate all the rules around here." "It's like our motto." "Would you agree with that, Lindsay?" "Well, pretty much." " Jimmy?" " I don't know." "The truth is, I don't know what we are." "I think what we are and what we could be are different things." " Meaning?" " We've been a firm that will represent anybody." "Financially, we've had to." "The clientele we have, let's face it, the reputation that we're honorable that we play by the rules, that would cost us our clients." "The Kenny Tripps, which make up this practice, they rely on us to cheat a little." "To stick up for them first, the rules second." "You know, they might love us but to the legal community we're the lawyers who give lawyers a bad name." "The bread and butter that's kept us afloat it's mainly been the drug dealers, the Kenny Tripps." "How do we just abandon them?" "We abandon them because there are plenty of other lawyers who are desperate to do that work." "We're not that desperate anymore." "Or maybe you're more desperate than you could ever know." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means maybe you like it here in the trenches." "You know, maybe you don't wanna climb out." "But if so, be honest about it so we can get out while we still have the chance." ""In the matter of Commonwealth v. Theodore Maynard on charge 62434, we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty."" "Thank you, Mr. Young." "You are awesome, man." "I'm even gonna pay you." "Oh, that's nice." "But, Teddy..." "Look, I know, all right?" "I'm gonna stay clear from this kind of crap." "I need to grow up." "I'm gonna." "Does it ever bother you?" "You know, getting all these guys off on acquittals when you know they did it?" "Sometimes." "But am I all torn up over the idea of Teddy Maynard out there?" "Hopping free?" "Come on, let me pay off some of this debt by taking you to dinner." "I'm married, Renee." "You're separated, Eugene." "Yeah, well, I got a kid who's not ready for his dad to be out with a DA just yet." " Otherwise, I..." " It's..." "Hey." "Anyway, congratulations again on your wonderful victory." "Thanks." "So..." "I'll see you in court?" "Yeah." "I don't believe it." "I'm still in a little shock myself." "A hundred and forty thousand dollars?" "Plus as many operations as it takes to fix her smile." "I don't know what to say." " Well, you gotta say yes before I go..." " Oh, well, yes." "My God, yes." "I'd like to go tell her." "And they know that I don't have medical insurance..." "No hospital costs, period." "I'll get it in writing." "We can make appointments for her to meet with the plastic surgeons as soon as we close." "Well, I owe you all a big apology because you don't know what I was thinking of y'all." " This is really true?" " All true." "Thank you." "Am I to understand that instead of accepting 200,000 you settled on 140, plus hospital care?" " Yeah." "You realize we can't take a contingency on a girl's smile?" "If you had settled for 2 on a straight cash deal this firm would have made an extra $ 16,000." "You do know that?" "It crossed my mind." "Jimmy, you said you don't know what this place is." "What you just did I'd like to think that's exactly what this place is." "Good job." "Thank you."