"Help yourself."

Seongbuk-dong, Seoul.

A quiet hillside road lined with ambassadors' residences and grand old houses. Behind one of the high walls stood the home of Jang Muyeol, chief attorney of Jo and Jang.

Jo and Jang! Nearly every adult in Korea knew the name: the number one group of lawyers in the country. Oddly enough, it was not a law firm.

It was set up as a law office, not an incorporated firm. Yet in size and influence it dwarfed most of the big firms.

Attorney Jo Changho, who had founded Jo and Jang with him, had long since stepped back from the front line. From then on, for all practical purposes, Jang Muyeol had held Jo and Jang in his own two hands.

It had well over a thousand lawyers, accountants, tax specialists and patent attorneys on its books, along with expert advisers in every field. It was a vast army of experts, with former judges, prosecutors and senior officials posted on every front.

Most companies facing a lawsuit worth tens of billions thought of Jo and Jang first. When the head of a group came under investigation by the prosecution, they went to Jo and Jang every single time.

Fights over control of a company, mergers and acquisitions, tax, finance, fair trade, international arbitration, and more.

Wherever money and power collided and something went wrong, Jo and Jang showed up without fail.

People had even made a joke of it.

In Korea, when you've committed a crime and have to fight it out in court, what's the first thing you do? Your first choice isn't to turn yourself in, and it isn't to run.

Call Jo and Jang before you do anything else!

Jang Muyeol sat at the very top of an organization with more power than the public could imagine. He was pushing eighty this year.

Even so, he was still in active practice. Few group chairmen in the business world dared talk down to him.

In legal circles, even more so. Plenty of sitting Supreme Court justices and senior prosecutors were his hoobaes.

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