Juli walks out of her apartment building to find Harvey leaning against the side of the car.
"Good Morning."
"Hi Harvey, hope you haven't had your coffee yet, I poured you a cup of what I made."
"I haven't actually, thank you," Harvey says while grabbing the extra cup of coffee.
"How are you feeling this morning?"
"I'm fine. All I'm going to be doing is sitting at a table Harvey, you're doing the talking. How are YOU this morning?"
"Me? Come on, I'm fine. But this is a big deal for you today, don't underestimate how much you contributed."
Juli just stands there, unsure of what to say.
"Shall we get in the car and head on over to the courthouse?" Harvey says opening the car door for Juli.
"That would be wise."
Once they pull up to the courthouse Juli starts to feel nervous.
"Okay, I'm not feeling so confident anymore Harvey."
"You'll be fine, just sit by the client and reassure him anytime he starts to freak out, that's all you need to do." Harvey leans into Juli a little bit, and puts his hand on her knee, "You're going to be great, I believe in you, start believing in yourself."
"Why are you so nice to me?"
A smile creeps across his face, "Someone should, why not me?" Juli just sat there staring at Harvey's face. I don't understand how he makes me so nervous but completely at ease at the same time. It doesn't make sense.
The judge walks into the room, "Okay, let's get this thing underway."
"Your honor, Miss. Dupont here has a record of not being very truthful to get her way. I for one, think it needs to stop." Harvey pauses to turn to look at Miss. Dupont.
" Miss. Dupont, if that's even the name you're going by these days," Turns back to face the judge, "Miss. Dupont has been employed twice before, for 3 years at E & P Co. and for 6 months at Lite Corps." Harvey, looking back at Miss. Dupont, "Yeah, that's right, we found that out."
Now Vivienne Dupont sits there, freaking out because has no clue to what to expect yet, and worse off, neither does her lawyer.
Harvey straightens out his suit jacket and proceeds, "When she was employed by E & P Co. she went by the name 'Carrie Dawson.' She worked there for a while until she realized she wasn't making as much as the other employees there. Miss. Dupont, or at the time, Miss. Dawson, decided that if she wasn't going to make the money that she thought she deserved then neither was her company. She leaked the E &P Co.'s business plans to a competitor that the company was trying to merge with. The company filed for Loss of Bargain and named Miss. Dupont here as the reason why their merger was unable to go through. Isn't that true Miss. Dupont?"
At this point Vivienne Dupont's lawyer, Damien Webber, was less than pleased with Harvey.
Webber stands up. "Your honor my client has had a past, but that has no bearing on this case. The question at hand is whether or not their client, William Becker, terminated my client for good reasons. Which, I don't think he did. Mr. Becker slept with my client and I have a list a mile long of past and present employees that he has slept with. They cut off their 'romance' if you will, and she was terminated shortly after."
"No, your client was fired because she told from the company. Point blank." Harvey is starting to get irritated at this point.
"And please your honor, the relevance of her employment at E & P Co. is very pertinent. It shows the character of the accuser. If you look at the courtesy briefs that were drawn up for you, you can see that we do have the physical proof that she was stealing. And as far as her lying goes, it doesn't stop there at E & P Co. She was also employed by Lite Corps where she was in charge of payroll. Only this time she went by the name, 'Mary Foster,' honestly, I prefer 'Carrie Dawson.'"
"Moving on Counselor"
"Right. While she was working for Lite Corps she was receiving bonus' no one else received. Ones that she justified as getting cash reward for, since she referred people to purchase equipment from this company. Once the equipment was purchased, she received $100,000. Now, the owner of this company didn't agree to such a deal. Turns out she was in on a secret rebate with the accountant of the company. It took the owner, Reid Bailey, 4 months to catch onto this and to be able to prove it. Once he did, she was terminated immediately. His company went under because it couldn't dig itself out of the hole that Miss. Dupont, Dawson, Foster whoever, created."
Harvey, standing tall looks at Miss. Dupont and her lawyer then back at the judge. "Your honor, Miss. Dupont here has a history of lying to the owners of the companies that she works for. This time, she tried a different approach. She is trying to harm the reputation of my client. We have signed affidavits from Carl Peterson, one of the co-owners of E & P Co. and Reid Bailey. We also have the transcript from the Loss of Bargain lawsuit that Miss. Dupont was named in."
"Miss. Dupont, do you have anything to say for yourself?" Miss. Dupont just sat there staring at her lawyer.
"I didn't think so Miss. Dupont. I am throwing this case out not only because of what Mr. Specter here was able to out, but also because you have no burden of proof. Next time Mr. Webber; I'd hope that you'd have more to show. Court adjourned."
Harvey turns to his client and shakes his hand. "Thank you so much Harvey for doing this."
"Don't thank me, thank Julianne here, she did the grunt work."
"Thanks Julianne."
"My pleasure, Mr. Becker."
They are back in the car now and Harvey looks at Juli. "I'm hungry, are you? Want to grab some breakfast before we head back to the office?"
"Sounds good to me, I'm pretty hungry."
They ride in silence but once they are seated and waiting for their orders to come, they start to talk more.
"How have you adjusted to living in New York? You're from California right?"
"Yes, I am. I have adjusted pretty well. Living in Massachusetts helped with getting used to living on the East Coast. It gets hard though being so far from my family."
"Are you really close with them?"
"I am. I have 4 brothers, all older. My mom and dad are my rocks. I have no idea how I would have gotten through…" Julie realizes she is about to bring up Greg, and she decides not to. "…some of the, uh, things I've been through."
"4 older brothers? That must've been a bitch to date." Is Harvey commenting on my dating life?
"It wasn't too bad. I was pretty much with the same person my whole dating life. They really liked him, so they didn't get too crazy."
"How long were you with the guy?"
"8 years."
"That is a long time. But you're not with him now?" Why is it I always end up talking about Greg?
"No, we broke up before I went to law school."
"How have your brothers treated your boyfriends since then?"
"I haven't had time to date since entering law school, but they wanted to kick Mike's ass when they found he took me out for drinks the other night."
"Now that would be fun to watch."
Juli finishes up her breakfast with Harvey and is amazed at how easy it is to talk with him about things. She found herself developing a liking for him.
This could be bad… very bad.