The elevator door opened to a marble and dark cherry wood lobby with a platinum-plated plaque indicating that the law firm occupied the entire fifteenth floor of the Dial building in midtown Phoenix north of the I-10 interstate. To the right of the elevator bay was the luxuriously decorated reception area that welcomed guests and staff alike. With spatial views of Piestewa Peak and Camelback mountain to the slight northeast and downtown to the south, one could almost see the entire valley from the various windows of the fifteenth floor. But from the reception area, the looming landmark was the Sandra Day O"Connor courthouse housing the federal courts with its six-floor, glassed-enclosed atrium that nearly encompassed the entire length of the north side of the building. An older woman who h
