After The Verdict

Claire Walker, one of the world’s top litigation lawyers, retired for love for five years and anonymously invested 80 million dollars to push her partner Yas’s small law firm to the top of New York. She thought she was helping him succeed—until their wedding anniversary, when Yas’s assistant Megan publicly threw down a document accusing Claire of leaking confidential information in the Lehman merger case and forced her to sign a confession. Only then did Claire realize that the man she had supported had claimed her achievements, her cases, and even her name as his own. Worse, Megan’s “evidence” was a confidential page from Claire’s last case before retirement—someone had conspired to make her take the fall. Heartbroken, Claire withdrew her investment, revealed her true identity, and stormed back into court, vowing to use the rules of evidence to expose this pair of “fake elites” in open court. But she didn’t know that the person who truly wanted to destroy her was still hidden in the shadows, waiting for her to step into the next trap.