An Extraordinary Lawyer’s Subspace - Chapter 189



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【Episode 189 – A Monster Appears】

It wasn’t just the conference room at PIC Insurance where a heavy silence hung.

Kaiser Dutton Hill Office,

As he waited for Doug Pullman to call, Roy Sanders reviewed the case files again.

I feel an urge to call Han Beom-sang right away and check.

I want to call and ask directly.

Was everything planned from the beginning?

Or maybe you just got lucky and got what you wanted.

I prepared thoroughly.

We thoroughly reviewed the confidentiality agreements of all current and former employees on the witness list and identified all the weaknesses in claims that had payment issues over the past 10 years.

For three months, the entire Kaiser Dutton Hill insurance team was assigned to the case.

As Han Beom-sang also mentioned, PIC Insurance’s non-life insurance policy was a contract that had been completed over a long period of time.

Although there was controversy, it was not something that could be easily broken.

Even if the claims were unfairly unpaid, it is not so obvious that you can easily claim ‘punitive damages’.

It can be cleverly avoided and the issue can be blurred.

however···

‘I thought they’d call Doug Pullman as the first witness.’

It’s not that I didn’t consider the possibility.

However, it was considered to be rare.

You dare call the other company’s general counsel?

And that too from someone who has 10 years of experience as an insurance lawyer?

There was no reason to call a witness who would only testify in favor of the PIC.

Unless you are usually confident,

The confidence to break it and get the testimony you want.

“Tsk tsk, that was stupid.”

It was something I said to myself.

Even after meeting in person···.

Roy Sanders clicked his tongue.

but,

‘Even if I could go back, would I have used a different strategy? Would I have been able to see all 30 years of records?’

It was impossible.

It wasn’t a question of strategy.

There was no point in regretting that if I had only spent 10 years, this wouldn’t have happened.

Because from the start, the opponent was far ahead.

Even if I had only spent 10 years, I would have been hurt.

Yeah, it wasn’t because I was stupid.

When I thought I had prepared thoroughly, I was sincere.

It was a fight he had prepared for, ready for every attack he could think of.

It’s just a difference in ability.

PIC Insurance has already lost ten million dollars.

Maybe we’ve lost more than that.

He was right.

Even if they gave the full $10 million, it would be trivial compared to what PIC Insurance had to lose.

Tiring- Tiring-

It would be wise for PIC to reach an agreement now.

If you don’t want to lose more, that is.

“This is Roy Sanders.”

-Roy, we have to come to an agreement.

It was fortunate that Doug Pullman didn’t lose his touch that much.

“Are you approving the full ten million dollars?”

-Okay, give me everything. Just drop the lawsuit as quickly as possible.

There’s no need to worry about that.

Because getting things done is faster than a flash.

Roy Sanders was in awe,

At law firm Kim & Kang,

And to a young lawyer named Han Beom-sang.

A monster has appeared in New York.

-*-

There are patterns in writing too.

Just as you naturally see the writing style and style of your favorite author if you read his or her novels, the same goes for a lawyer’s writing.

Whether it’s a memorandum or an opinion piece, if you look at it, you’ll see a pattern.

It was slow at first.

The documents that were thrown around haphazardly were in a disarray, as if they had been scattered on purpose.

In some ways, it actually helped.

One by one, I started to sort them by my standards.

I sorted them by date and claim type, and also by claims handler, in-house attorney who reviewed them, and insurance policy amendments.

Having a proper office made things a lot easier.

When I spread it out in a large indoor space so that I could see it at a glance, the act of entering it itself felt like entering the brain.

I reviewed 30 years of records, going back and forth between electronic files and document files.

I could sense something strange even before I calculated the statistics.

And that oddity naturally raised the question: ‘Could it be that this coincides with the period in which PIC’s current general counsel, Doug Pullman, served as head of the claims department’s legal team?’

When several people work together without knowing exactly what they are looking for, something can be missed even if someone clearly saw it.

So it is essential for someone in an administrative position to review or reconfirm.

The good thing about doing everything yourself is that if you do it thoroughly from the beginning, you don’t have to do it twice.

The truth realized after spending a long time in subspace.

Even if it’s annoying, be thorough from the beginning.

The records the other person gave me were truly enormous, but as I calmly organized them one by one without rushing, a pattern began to appear, and as I studied them following that pattern, my searches gradually became faster.

Later, I started to wonder where in the office in the subspace city there were claims that had been handled by someone for several years.

It felt like I became one with the space.

Doug Pullman’s last 30 years unfold before our eyes.

Records of his time as Kirkland’s attorney handling cases for PIC Insurance.

When you get to know your opponent,

The strategy has become easier.

Rather, it was difficult to read Roy Sanders’ numbers.

If he had been just a little more persistent in his repeated proposals for an agreement, it could have ended in an agreement.

It was not necessarily a bad outcome for Yoon Geum-ja and Park Jae-hong.

However, if that were the case, I personally would have felt a little disappointed.

Because we almost didn’t get Doug Pullman on the stand.

There may never have been an opportunity to expose his actions, which were largely malicious.

Tiring- Tiring-

“Hello. This is Ordinary Han.”

-Mr. Han, this is Roy Sanders.

“Hello, Mr. Sanders.”

-I’m calling to ask if you’d be willing to settle for ten million dollars right now. You’re not trying to increase the bill, are you?

“I don’t intend to do that. I intend to reach an agreement.”

If it’s ten million dollars.

– Then, shall we meet and talk? Should I go to Kim & Kang’s office like last time? When would be a good time?

“No. I’ll go to the Kaiser Dutton Hill office. I can do it tomorrow.”

I moved to New York.

I completed my master’s degree.

I found an apartment with Ms. Hayoung.

-Then how about meeting at our office tomorrow at ten?

“I will see you tomorrow at ten o’clock.”

-Okay. I’ll wait.

Click.

The case of the couple Park Jae-hong and Yoon Geum-ja ended like that.

But that didn’t mean PIC Insurance’s task was over. They were just getting started.

Tom Brent, a reporter for the Manhattan Voice, continued to report on the laundry case, as expected.

We continued our relentless investigation into malicious damage insurance policy terms and conditions.

Thanks to this, Kim & Kang was able to be selected as the ‘Law Firm of the Year’ by the New York Legal Journal at the end of the year. And, Beomsang was named one of the ‘Rising Star Lawyers.’

···

New York, Manhattan,

11th floor, 1300 Avenue of America,

Kim & Kang New York office.

dripping-

“yes.”

Ha-young knocked on Beom-sang’s open door and came in.

“Attorney Han.”

“Attorney Do.”

“congratulation.”

“What?”

“All of them.”

“All of them?”

“I graduated, I solved a difficult case, and I’m officially admitted to the New York State Bar.”

“So, are we celebrating tonight?”

“Celebrate? Hmm- what kind of seller···.”

“One side.”

“Hey! Let’s eat, Mr. Han! Salad! For lunch!”

At that precarious(?) moment, Choi Jae-min came in from behind without a sound.

“Oh, that’s surprising. What kind of salad is that? You’re yelling at me to eat it… I guess you really want to eat that damn salad. Yeah, let’s eat it. Just eat it.”

“···Yes···I found a really delicious place···hahahaha-”

“Okay, let’s eat. That’s good. We both happened to be together. Thanks to this one-sided pro bono case, a few new cases have come in. I sent you some emails, so let’s take a look and then have a meeting.”

“all right.”

“Oh, and I’ve received quite a few applications for internships. Let’s take a look at those too. There are also students from Harvard and Yale Law School. This case had good publicity. If we get a settlement, let’s go to a good place and celebrate.”

Kkk- Celebrate. Salad.

“Yes, that’s good!”

“Is one side shooting?”

Pro bono is the provision of services without receiving any out-of-pocket legal fees.

Instead, if you win, you will receive a portion of the settlement or judgment amount.

Usually you get 40-60%.

Kim & Kang earned $5 million of the $10 million in success fees.

It was the sales that Han Beom-sang made.

“How about a salad? Attorney Do knows a really good place.”

Hehehehe-

Ha-young’s face, which had fallen behind Choi Jae-min, turns slightly red.

Her eyes narrow at the sight of the beast.

“No, how delicious is this place, really? What, is it even covered in gold?”

“Attorney Do, is the gold being spread out?”

That summer,

It was New York.

Eat New York

This time, I spent quite a long time in the city in subspace.

It was an opportunity to confirm many things.

First, we confirmed that seasons exist here too.

It was a place where summers were a bit longer and winters were shorter, about one or two months.

I wondered if this was something that the ‘Master of Space’ could control.

Second, we found evidence that this place was not created all at once.

The products displayed in each area were from different years.

Although there were not as many items from different centuries, there were some that were as long as 50 years apart.

Of course, such assumptions are not made simply based on the manufacturing year or expiration date of the displayed products.

Another piece of evidence is that there were areas that had not been touched by human hands for a long time, that is, areas that had not been maintained for a long time.

Doesn’t that mean that someone built this city slowly, piece by piece?

Third, facilities such as water supply, sewage, and electricity continued to operate regardless of human management.

It might be possible in two or three months, but for it to function normally for several years was something that was impossible with the technology in the world I live in.

This lends credence to the hypothesis that someone from the future was the owner of this place.

It has not yet been determined where the generator or water system is connected.

The city is large, and I haven’t been outside of it yet.

Inside, there were so many special places, including a bar stocked with hard-to-find liquor and a library that housed records from the next decade.

Did I tell you?

There are also the New York Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the city within the subspace.

but.

Tonight is a night where I just want to run on the roads of this city as if they were a circuit.

Riding my first Harley Davidson “Queen”.

Buddhadadadadadang-

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