Louis
The law firm Louis built did not survive the debacle outside the Alpha Centauri Supreme Court. Not because Louis escalated his tactics, mind you. He stayed well away from anything that might be considered an escalation. But no one wanted to be represented by the firm trying to kill the folk hero named Louis Mattioli. They may just be stories and rumors, and Louis never called the new partners out, but the companies still doing business with them could no longer ignore the stories. Every major corporation on Earth and Alpha Centauri ended their contracts with the law firm and that sounded their death knell. The partners were not ones to admit defeat easily though. They snatched up all of the fungible assets the firm still had, and went to the stars with enough money to finance very comfortable lives on planets that lacked extradition treaties with Earth. The firm quickly collapsed behind them.
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