An American Lawyer Starts with Dirty Tricks

[The strongest legal drama set in America in the same period, with nearly a one-to-one follow ratio. Absolutely top-tier reading.] Li Ang is in America, and both his parents are dead. Buried in debt and with nowhere to turn, he is on the verge of falling below the poverty line. A correspondence-school law degree is just enough to keep him scraping by in the homeless district. Wait! The System is here? [Help a fried chicken ingredient factory legally avoid taxes!] Avoid taxes?! Here?! Everyone knows how hard it is to avoid taxes in America. I'm just a correspondence-school lawyer, and you want me to pull off tax avoidance in a place like America?! To keep his clients happy, Li Ang has no choice but to fight dirty. “I can get the charges against you dropped, and even make California pay you some money.” The client is stunned. “Seriously?!” “If you're not satisfied, I'll try to get the judge thrown in jail too!” The client: “?” Years later. Li Ang sits alone on the balcony of his estate, doors closed, sipping champagne. His secretary comes to report: “Our law firm has successfully gone public, but there are a few articles...” “They say the biggest mistake America ever made was letting that scoundrel of a lawyer, Li Ang, go to work...”