What chance had I?
Colonel Ingram is a great lawyer.

If he wasn't great, would he have charge of the law business of the Sierra Mills, of the Erston Land Syndicate, of the Berkeley Consolidated, of the Oakland, San Leandro, and Pleasanton Electric?
He's a corporation lawyer, and corporation lawyers are not paid for being fools.* What do you think the Sierra Mills alone give him twenty thousand dollars a year for?
Because he's worth twenty thousand dollars a year to them, that's what for.

I'm not worth that much.

If I was, I wouldn't be on the outside, starving and taking cases like Jackson's.

What do you think I'd have got if I'd won Jackson's case ?" * The function of the corporation lawyer was to serve, by corrupt methods, the money-grabbing propensities of the corporations.