“I just wanted to thank you, Mark. On behalf of myself but ESPECIALLY my family. That stuff about my daughter was NOT an exaggeration, you may very well have kept her from backsliding, perhaps even permanently. That is a young unfortunate whose future you helped to protect Mark, I will never forget that ever. Everybody in the courtroom was impressed. The DA came on so strong it almost seemed she was going to blow me out the door. But you took the wind out of her sails. It was, for lack of a more judicious term, badass. You’ve been great with me since the beginning of the case, and over the years you’ve helped out so many of my closest friends it would take a while for me to come up with a figure on how many. You’re one bad hombre Richards, straight up. Once again, gracias. Can’t thank you enough. And even if it had gone the other way, I would still have held you in the same esteem. I’ll always refer people to you or come to you for my legal needs.”