Over the following weeks James grows busier with him mostly being quite busy with the DeWitt while in addition to it he's having several conversations with lawyers who can take over cases from him in time while he can officially focus on being the firm's CEO. However no-one is aware that he's involved with the latest disappearance of many young women with all of them being kidnapped to be trained and sold off as slaves with the people behind it, including James are earning alot of money. Sadly for the time being the lawyer isn't that much present at the facilities as he's too busy with the DeWitt case but he monitor's the progress quite closely with him reviewing the information about the targets before they're kidnapped. As word gets out that more and more ladies are vanishing the police are rather clueless with them only having figured out that all of the ladies have went to one of the many bars within the city; some owned by James but not all of them and besides them being aged between 18 and 28 and with them being single not a distinct pattern can be found. It's almost like the targets are randomly picked and kidnapped or at least vanishing but that's all they can figure out.<br/><br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>When Jackie starts to do her research about James Thackery she does find out quite alot about his career. He was one of the youngest lawyers ever to conduct a defense case with him having built up a very solid record as a lawyer with rating varying between 89 and 93% win rate, which is almost perfect for a lawyer that mostly deals with open and shut cases. Even in the cases that he loses he somehow does manage to get his client off with a heavy penalty reduction. Most reporters that write about him create a picture of a general; someone who's very calculable and who always has a plan even when it appears he doesn't have one. There are several cases where he managed to prove that despite everything was pointing towards his client the police did not look into several unlikely alternatives which when brought up by him in the courtroom don't always appear as unlikely as it would first appear. However some reporters are far more negative as James as a lawyer with one describing him as a gentleman outside of a courtroom but a ruthless killer inside of it, one that has claimed many careers. The reporter’s even writes about a case where the lawyer came face to face with an experienced detective who in the end was reduced to tears when James destroyed not only his theories and claims about the suspect but he even destroyed the detective's career at the same time. Though the reporter does add that if you want to have a good shot to win a unwinnable case James Thackery is the person to go to as he would give you a chance to win  or at least go down fighting.<br/><br/>When Jackie starts to look up the DeWitt case she soon discovers some of the details about it. The case surrounds a Robert DeWitt who until 6 months ago was happily married with his wife Elizabeth and having 2 young children. Everything changed when his wife confessed to have an affair with his boss Jason Murphy. One night after the accountant Robert was one of the last to leave the building his boss was found dead in his office the next morning. The time of death matched Robert's time of leaving the office despite that he claims that Jason was alive when he left. With him having motive, opportunity and the means to kill his boss Robert was quickly arrested and charged with the murder of his boss.<br/><br/>The case started just a few days after the gala and its sofar been another case in which James has shown how good he is at his job while he would even be a rather good detective. On the second day the reporters following the case describes a theory that the lawyer is picturing with a third person being inside of the building, having broken in using the side door which is impossible to see from the street and with the camera being broken there anyone could've broken in. He even has the report of a burglar together with a video recorded by the thief who breaks into the building using the side entrance. At first it doesn't look like much but when he has a former detective on the standing deducing that the evidence left behind was the same that was left behind after the police scanned the building when Jason was found dead the evidence match up with it growing quite likely that someone might have broken in that same night.<br/><br/>A few days later James has a even bigger impact with the detective leading the case being on the stand only to be destroyed verbally by James, at first the detective sits there full of confidence but by the time the lawyer is done, there's hardly a man sitting there. James made short work of the police investigation with them having one suspect in mind and everything was focused on getting that suspect behind bars. Important evidence that would lead to another suspect has been ignored or (accidently) destroyed by the detectives while other suspects have barely been checked out. The lawyer even goes at first to point out two other possible suspects, one of them being Robert's co-worker a second accountant who Jason suspecting of fraud but sofar he hasn't found proof of it. Next to that the other suspect if a former security guard and a man with a police record when it comes to burglary. Before he was fired he did the last check on the cameras and he concluded that it worked fine while the detective that James has hired is sure that the camera has been broken for several weeks.<br/><br/>With the case coming to an end it's starting to become more unlikely that Robert will be found guilty as James has not only given the jury plenty of reasons to have Reasonable doubt when it comes to Robert being the killer but the addition of overlooking a possible break-in and not checking out two possible suspects does give reports the feeling that Robert will be found not-guilty and the case being shoved back towards the DA's office and quite possibly back towards the detectives or a new detective team to redo all the research and find Jason's killer. According to the reporters following the case the jury is expected to give their verdict next Monday with James's case ending that day. The more Jackie would read about it, the more she would realize that he's a very dangerous man and that messing with him could risk her career and the good contacts between the police force and his firm. However she has no idea that he's in charge of the slavery ring kidnapping all those ladies and that showing up to a bar would make her a possible target for the lawyer James Thackery who would not stop for anything in order to keep Miss Sharp quiet.