'The case was hopeless...': Lawyer saves restaurant owner from a rapacious landlord's iron-clad contract

Landlords are just about one of the only things that could make us root for lawyers. The lesser of two evils really comes into play when those two parties are in the same room together.

The powerful preying on the weak is one of the oldest tropes in storytelling. What's not to love about a story like this? A wily lawyer who wants to do the right thing—but still doesn't work for free—coming to the aid of a desperate owner of a local restaurant (that happens to be the lawyer's favorite.) The cartoonish antagonist coming in the form of a jowl-quivering rapacious landlord certainly does its part to give this story a driving purpose. It's for these reasons that this story, written and shared by u/Calledinthe90s to a popular online community, definitely deserves its place in the annals of internet storytelling.

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