and when brendon sullivan came in to represent you, the room would crackle. it still crackles. and i walked into the ted stevens case trial this year, you know, there's an electricity in the room that you're present with some of the great lawyers. as a reporter i had been pretty lucky to be able to be in trials with people like melvin bellia and william kunsler and i was going to mention jim coleman who is now i think at duke university when he represented ted bundy in some of his death penalty appeals. when you're in the presence of these great lawyers, it's really a spectacular feeling. you know, some of you may have heard -- i don't know if some of you are watching boardwalk empire. anybody see the last episode where the -- arnold rothstein, the guy who fixed the 1919 world series is preparing his legal defense. and one of the characters in the program says, arnold, you should be a lawyer. and he replies without sort of missing a beat, he says, no, i'd rather continue to make my living honestly. so, you know, there's a lot of -- there's a lot of lawyers in this country that

tell how in the basic threat of the book is to take the five main characters of my book which are brendon, david kendall, gregory, bob barnett and larry latino and talk about how within the law firm and by the people that have left the law firm to pursue careers as larry did in baseball or jeff did with his co or nicole at the sony corporation or other people in the bechtel corporation or marriott and how the direct line from the savings and edward bennett williams and what he taught these disciples has met in terms of american business and law and made this a tremendously unique firm and in a lot of other ways i pointed out unlike firms they don't take lateral partners for the simple, they don't engage in self promotion or have offices outside of other places. so this sort of the book is about and kind of like a sort of unlike the one you might get from the comment from arnold rothstein and the entire board what. and i think my characters are all exemplified in the best in the american profession which is sometimes difficult to say because when you go from writing free trade publication