Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the lawyers who participated as interviewees and to friends who made introductions on my behalf.

Thanks to my family: my husband for encouraging me; Preston for reminding me how to work hard; Malcolm, without whose expertise, this book simply never would have happened; and Dante for keeping me company.

Thanks to Apress for the idea of this book; to Robert Hutchinson for trusting me to write it; to Rita Fernando for her endless patience; and to Kristen Ng for her perfect ear.