Mitchell Stephens is angry. That is what makes him a good lawyer, he reasons. He is not driven by greed as some lawyers are; it is pure anger. He is not ashamed of it though. It is who he is. He is not necessarily proud of it either, but it does make him useful at least. You cannot say that about greed.
He guesses that he is just permanently pissed off. By being a lawyer, he is well paid for it, which is satisfying, but not the real motivation. The real satisfaction is winning a case and leaving smoke and carnage in his wake.
It is the anger that brings him to Sam Dent, NY. He had heard about the school bus accident in the newspaper, and he admits that when he hears something like.....
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