Independence - Ch 2

Chapter 2

The following day, about mid morning Kylee managed to get into her office. Her head still reeling from the day before, she had worked so long on a lawsuit against a toy maker who made some manufacturing mistake that caused a child to get hurt playing with the toy. Kylee was about the only lawyer she knew that had scruples still. She wouldn’t sue the manufacturer for an unreal amount, just the hospital bills and $20K in damages. If clients wanted more she referred them to other lawyers. She was not the type to go after what wasn’t rightfully due, she’d had that done with her ex husband and there was no way she was she going to become the same vile creature that he was.

A buzz from her phone caused her to look up from the papers on her desk, “Yes.” She said into the intercom.

“Kylee a Mr. Bongiovi is on the line for you.” Kelly her receptionist advised.

“Can you let him know I’ll be just a moment?”

Kelly nodded her head and returned to the line advising Jon that Kylee was just finishing up and would be available in a moment.

Once she put the last of her thoughts on paper before she lost them she picked up the phone easily but hitting the connect button, not even needing to pick up the handset.

“Yes Mr. Bongiovi, this is Kylee.”

“I told you yesterday its Jon.”

“Sorry force of habit. What can I do for you?” Grabbing her notepad she jotted the time of the call down and kept her pen handy to acknowledge the reason.

“I know this is odd after I already hired you but I was talking to some older relatives and they were asking me questions about you that I didn’t have answers to. My dad recommended I contact you but what areas of law do you have practice in, how long have you been practicing?”

She quickly wrote down that Jon was looking to verify her credentials, n/c – no charge in her shorthand as she sat back to explain to him.

“Jon I can give you my credentials happily, let me know if you have further questions. I have Bachelors from NY State in Telecommunication, media production emphasis, and I have Juris Doctor and MBA from Rutgers at Camden. I passed my NY and NJ bar exams on the first round. As for what areas of law I practice I’ve focused most heavily on contract and corporate law. I worked for Lipton, Rosen & Katz for a little over 2 years after law school and while I passed my bar exams. I left LRK after the lawsuit I won that your father heard about.”

“So do you work mostly for individual clients or businesses?” Jon wanted to know.

“I prefer one on one client relationships even if it is a business I’m representing I prefer having one person as a contact.”

“What kind of legal problems do you handle for them?” He continued to question her.

“I’ve worked on everything from creating partnerships to dissolving them, lawsuits regarding working hours, intellectual property suits, a little bit of tax law but I don’t really like that area of focus.”

“Why not?” Now that made him curious.

“Honestly because tax law is boring and there’s not much opportunity to argue a point, the government will get theirs and most of the time when you get into a case like that the client knows they are guilty of tax evasion so it takes the interest away for me.”

Jon smiled at her end of the conversation. She seemed very straightforward and he liked that. Doc always handled everything behind closed doors. “So who will be handling my case, you or someone else in your office?”

“Good question Jon if this was a big office, but I work on my own, Kelly is my paralegal she may pull old cases for me but I’m your lawyer. That is if I passed the interview?” She smiled; she loved singing her own praises when it came to her academic accomplishments, damn she’s worked so hard to get where she is at such an early stage in her career. Most lawyers at the age of 27 haven’t the guts to venture out on their own; she has her own business already.

“Yes of course you passed, I already hired you but I was just making sure. So what’s the next step anyway? Do I have to make an appointment to drop the papers off I get from Polygram today or just come over?”

“Depends are you going to put me on retainer or keep being billed by the hour?” She had no problem keeping her tone businesslike, if she didn’t keep bringing money in her doors would close, and she was damned if that was going to happen in her life. Kylee Scott did not fail.