The calls I could not help.
A builder, three years out from selling. A café owner whose landlord had just raised the rent. A couple facing a settlement with no idea what the business they had spent a decade building would mean for the outcome.
None of them needed a court-ready report. They wanted to know what they were walking into. But the only thing I could quote them was a price built for litigation. Most of them thanked me and hung up.
That never sat well with me. An answer that costs thousands and takes six weeks is not an answer most owners can get to.

