Meeting Scarlet
“Then we have a deal?” I asked the two men who sat facing each other across the large conference room table. They each nodded in turn. “Great!” I exclaimed, and I meant it. I had been mediating this negotiation for over two weeks. At points, it felt like the whole thing was going to fall apart. But we managed to pull it off. This was easily the biggest case I had ever taken. Sitting between these two giants of business high up in this tall Ottawa office building, I had often felt like I was...