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The Role of Lawyers in the Mob
Most lawyers who I consider mob lawyers get really pissed if you say if you refer to them as mob lawyers. One thing that is very common in the mob is the family and the bosses will select and pay for the lawyers for everyone else around them. Even if they want to flip, even if it's in their best interest, they know I can't go to this lawyer. He'll just report me up the chain. So we sent his girlfriend on a sort of like backdoor mission to tell us that he wanted to flip. And we had to go into court and do this sort of cloak and dagger thing called shadow counsel where the judge secretly appoints a lawyer who does not have a conflict