An Extraordinary Lawyer’s Subspace - Chapter 174



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【Episode 174 – Coming】

New York,

Manhattan,

After finishing the meeting with White and Chase, Jaemin and Beomsang visited the new office.

“How is it? Are you okay?”

It’s only 100 meters from the White & Chase offices.

11th floor, 1300 6th Avenue.

“Good.”

“You can see Central Park around the corner.”

Because there are so many tall buildings, even if you say you can see only a few trees from the 11th floor, that view is worth tens of millions of won a month.

Kim & Kang from South Korea has finally entered the ‘big league’.

The offices of New York’s big law firms are located along this ‘America’s Avenue.’

“This seems pretty expensive… Can we afford it?”

“What are you talking about? I trusted you and made a bet. Please take care of me.”

I said it as a joke, but I’m serious.

Aramco, Samsung, Alphabit. This would be absolutely impossible without the clients that Beomsang brought in.

“Why are you burdening me again?”

“A burden? What burden? I just want you to do as you always do. This is the room that will be used by one side.”

The normal one is in another corner of Kim & Kang’s New York office.

Although it is called a ‘corner’, it does not occupy an entire floor, so it is a room in the center of the entire building.

Overlooking the boulevard of America.

“Good.”

“Isn’t that great? The other side is right next door.”

“Oh, really? Not that corner?”

“Yeah. I came last week and chose first. I tried to give them a corner room facing 51st Street, but they said it wouldn’t get much sunlight, so they’d rather have this one.”

That’s right.

This direction is better than the 51st.

But the room gets smaller.

Is it really just because of the direction?

“Then it seems like Attorney Do will have to use this corner room. After all, he joined Kim & Kang before me···.”

“I don’t like it.”

“yes?”

“I asked that too, but she said no. It’s not really a corner anyway, and she said she likes a small room better. Oh, and she added that too.”

“What do you mean?”

“People who occupy larger rooms should earn more money.”

The common man knows that it was empty words.

That she is definitely not the type of woman who likes to be carried around.

“Suddenly, I feel like I would be more comfortable in my current office near Koreatown…”

“What’s wrong? You’re showing weakness. You’re not responding at all.”

Choi Jae-min continued speaking, putting his arm around his trusted lover’s shoulder.

“Please take care of me, Han Byun-.”

“Ah- It’s a bit heavy···.”

It’s already been six years since we spent time together.

We became very close.

“Oh, by the way, what are you going to do for spring break? Are you going to Korea?”

“no.”

“Well, aren’t you tired? I’ve been going back and forth so much that I don’t want to fly. It’s just that my wife and kids are coming for a few days, so if it’s okay, we’re going to go up to Boston and have a meal together. What do you think?”

“sorry.”

“Why? Where are you going?”

“yes.”

“where?”

“It’s Daran.”

“Daran? Where is Daran? Ah! Saudi Arabia Daran? Aramco headquarters?”

“yes.”

“business trip?”

“I’m not sure if I should call this a business trip. If I say no, I feel like they’ll go and talk about work. But if I say it’s a business trip, they said they’ll pay for it all.”

Jaemin is left speechless for a moment.

This is the first time something like this has happened.

“Hmm- then I guess I should just consider it a private affair. Sales, you know. Like playing golf with a client on the weekend.”

“I was thinking the same thing.”

“Are you coming back after a whole week?”

“Yes, I think I will come back after staying in two places: Daran and the capital Riyadh.”

“It’s a long way. Anyway, please take care of me, Attorney Han Beom-sang. Don’t let Aramco go anywhere.”

Jaemin’s arm, resting on Beomsang’s shoulder, pulls him strongly.

-*-

Boston,

Beacon Hill Apartments.

Ha-young is still at Beom-sang’s apartment today.

She is sitting at her desk working, waiting for her boyfriend to talk on the phone.

The boyfriend is currently on the phone with Thomas Müller, General Counsel for MG.

“Thomas, you told me last time that there was a project you wanted to discuss with Aramco. How is it going? I think you will be going to Saudi Arabia, Dhahran, during this spring break. If you are ready, can I make a statement when I go there?”

Thomas Müller, General Counsel of MG.

My relationship with this person has been going on for almost 6 years.

We met during negotiations in Detroit, Michigan, which was my first overseas business trip after joining Kim & Kang.

-Oh! You got that chance? Okay. I’ll talk to our company’s development team director. Last I heard, he said that it’s almost time to find a good business partner.

I could feel it from our first meeting, but he is not a lawyer who just looks at case laws.

He is very interested in management and is aiming for the position of CEO even though he is over 70 years old.

He is not the kind of person who only steps in when there is a dispute in the company.

Active and strategic.

“Yes. Then please find out and contact me. Even if it’s not in detail, it would be better if you could give me some information so that I can explain it to some extent.”

-Of course. Otherwise it would just sound like nonsense.

Still in good health and good mood.

The general had received assistance from director Thomas Muller during the last negotiation with Ford.

At the time, Thomas had tipped Beom-sang off about Ford’s electric battery supply situation, and thanks to him, Beom-sang learned that Ford was looking for a way to import cheap batteries to avoid the U.S. government’s sanctions on China.

I found out specific numbers, not just the information I was looking for.

It was inside information.

I didn’t even ask how Thomas Mueller knew Ford’s inside information.

It wasn’t material that could be used in court anyway.

Based on the data, Beomsang was able to match what Ford wanted with what Samsung wanted.

Of course, even if there was no commonality, the two could have been connected.

It probably took months of playing a game of wits with each other.

The deal was tantamount to saving several months of precious time for two companies with monthly sales of hundreds of billions of won each.

“If it’s difficult, you don’t have to force it. I don’t think this is the only opportunity.”

There is no free lunch in business.

Of course, such useful information is not free.

The resourceful Thomas Müller asked the general for one thing in return for providing the information.

He knew that he was trusted by Aramco.

Andy Nasser was there too, but he had a good sense and thought it would be better to approach it through the medium.

At that time, it was Han Beom-sang who had asked for the favor first.

-No. I think this is a good time. I’ll talk to the development team director and get back to you tomorrow.

“all right.”

-By the way, if I’m going to send you the development team’s data, I think I’ll need to sign a formal contract now.

“Yes. You can send it to the Kim & Kang New York office. Or, you can send it to me and I’ll toss it to you.”

-Okay. That shouldn’t be a problem. It’s just a formality.

“yes.”

-Okay, then. I’ll call you again tomorrow.

“Yes, I will wait.”

Click-

After finishing his call with Thomas Müller, Beom-sang put his phone on the table next to him and approached his girlfriend, with whom he had been talking before the call came in.

“sorry.”

Hayoung shook her head from side to side, indicating that there was no need to apologize.

“So? This time, you got a commission from MG?”

“Ah… I don’t know if it’s the right expression to say that we got this, but he said he’d give us the job.”

“I think it’s not us, but Mr. Han.”

“Isn’t leaving it to me the same as leaving it to us?”

Beomsang approached Hayoung and smelled her hair.

I forgot what I was talking about with her before she called.

I cast a flurry, something Butterfly often does, hoping she’d speak first.

“Oh, so, unfortunately, I don’t think we can go to Daran together.”

It worked.

I remembered the conversation I was having with her.

We were talking about spring break schedules.

“Do you regret it?”

“of course.”

Hayoung had a separate schedule that she couldn’t skip.

She also received help from someone while resolving the Hyogyeong Industry-Duhon dispute.

Senior Suyeon of Alan & Paul.

I have an appointment with her during spring break week.

It wasn’t just a simple dinner appointment.

“I can’t leave because I have an appointment with Kaiser Dutton’s lawyer who helped me. I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. It’s nothing to apologize for.”

“Instead, I’ll go to the airport. What time is my flight arriving?”

“There’s no need for that.”

“No. I’m going out-”

“Ah… I’ll ask Andy. Since it’s a charter flight, I don’t know what the schedule is.”

“Wow- Mr. Han is now a lawyer who flies around on a charter plane. Why does it suddenly feel like he’s in such a high place?”

“What’s wrong, again? Attorney Choi said that earlier, and now Ha-young.”

“What did Attorney Choi say?”

“Just, well, please take good care of Aramco… Please take good care of Samsung….”

“I will ask you to take good care of me as well, Attorney Han.”

“Seriously, stop it.”

“Ah! So now I have to negotiate my salary with Mr. Han?”

“Oh, really.”

The voice of the common man rose.

I wasn’t really annoyed.

Ha-young likes the way he gets angry, even if it’s just an imitation.

I wish he, who is always calm and composed in any situation, would feel comfortable in front of me.

Ha-young, who had gotten up from her seat, went into Beom-sang’s arms.

“What is this?”

“good.”

“?”

“···When you get angry.”

“That’s a bit perverted···.”

“Didn’t you know? I have masochistic tendencies.”

“uh?!”

“Hahahaha – Are you surprised?”

When everything is just fine.

“So, should I develop a Sadie disposition?”

Another villain was coming for them.

Marcus Hornby

There is a saying.

If you drop a rock from the sky over Manhattan, there’s a one in seven chance that it will hit a lawyer’s head.

There is also a saying like that.

If you’re lost in Manhattan, you’re more likely to find a lawyer’s office than a decent coffee shop.

Although there may be some exaggeration, neither statement is far-fetched.

Of the approximately 1,300,000 lawyers registered with the American Bar Association, 200,000, or 15 percent, practice in New York City.

Home to 70% of the world’s top 100 international law firms by revenue.

“New York, the city of lawyers.”

“The White Shoe Lawyers” was the kingpin there.

“Miss Slane, what is your sexual orientation?”

Marcus Hornby, a litigation attorney at Kaiser Dutton Hill, stood up from his desk, putting down the white fountain pen he had been fiddling with.

More than twenty years into the 21st century, there are no more Kaiser Dutton Hill lawyers who show up to court in white shoes, but the lawyers there all carry white fountain pens with the word “Kaiser” engraved on them.

It wasn’t just Laura Slane on the witness stand who frowned at his paper.

“Objection, Your Honor.”

The opposing lawyer jumped up from his seat.

Raise an objection.