Subconsciously, she categorized the different personality types in the room. She excelled at reading people, a skill that had proved useful during her career as a litigator. In some ways, she was an anomaly. She had a reputation as a fierce litigator. She rarely lost and could pick apart an adversary’s case with the efficiency of a swarm of locust stripping a field of crops. Yet, her easy smile and youthful demeanor lured opposing counsel into a relaxed mood that often resulted in their underestimating her. By the time they realized under her easy-going exterior laid the heart of a predator, she’d shredded their legal theories and left their clients defeated. While her colleagues didn’t qualify as adversaries per se, competition inevitably reared its head among the group. She lumped the women on her team into distinct categories, from hot-to-trot to damsel-in-distress to no-nonsense career woman. She turned her attention to the men, but got distracted when Michael Remington walked into the conference room.
