Judgment

Acknowledgments

Five illustrious judges helped me flesh out Juliana’s daily and internal life. I want to thank Judge Heidi Brieger, Judge Susan Garsh, Judge Nancy Gertner, Judge Karen Green, and Chief Justice Margaret Marshall for giving me a debt-free legal education and illuminating the customs of the black-robed guild. Their upright and upstanding ways put my own judges to shame. I’m deeply grateful for their help.

Michael Rossi of Conn Kavanaugh in Boston is a terrific lawyer whose contribution to this book was substantial. I couldn’t have done it without his legal advice. Thanks as well to Elliot Peters of Keker Van Nest & Peters, for his savvy early guidance on the Wheelz defense, as well as Nina Kimball and Justine Brousseau, of Kimball Brousseau, for very helpful advice on the plaintiff’s sex-discrimination case. I was assisted too by Joseph Berman, the general counsel of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, John Markey of Prince Lobel, Paul Dacier of Indigo Agriculture, and Jay Shapiro of White and Williams.

For medical help, I’m grateful to Dr. Mark Morocco of UCLA Medical Center and Dr. Thomas Workman of Winchester (MA) Hospital. My friend and unindicted co-conspirator Giles McNamee lent me his considerable expertise in investment banking and financial engineering. On Russian oligarchs and sanctions, I was assisted by Bill Browder, Anders Åslund of the Atlantic Council, Adam Szubin of Sullivan & Cromwell, and my old friend Mikhail Tsypkin of the Naval Postgraduate School.

For details on technical surveillance countermeasures, many thanks to Ian Sweeney of Mias Consultants International (and thank you, Thomas Slovenski) and, once again, Kevin Murray of Murray Associates. On computer hacking, Kevin Ripa of Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc., was quite helpful, as was Skip Brandon of Smith Brandon, on investigations. On Argentina, I thank Susana Lopez; and on Mallorca, Antonia Ramis Miguel. In Boston, my thanks to Detective Jeremiah Benton of the Boston Police Department, retired Boston Police superintendent Bruce Holloway, and my friend Jay Groob of American Investigative Services. Thanks to Peter Wayner for help on autonomous vehicles and to Jillian Stein for important advice on shoes. Thanks too to Clair Lamb for all sorts of research and editorial assistance.

At Dutton, Judgment benefited enormously from some terrific editing by Jessica Renheim and John Parsley. A big thanks to the rest of my wonderful team at Dutton: Christine Ball, Amanda Walker, Carrie Swetonic, Elina Vaysbeyn, and Marya Pasciuto. Thanks to my wife, Michele Souda, for her smart close reading; to my daughter, Emma J. S. Finder; to my awesome agent, Dan Conaway of Writers House; and above all to my brother, Henry Finder.