As we all know, when making a presentation, you really have to know your audience. That applies to comedians, actors, musicians, salespeople and lawyers. Especially lawyers. It’s like the opening lines of The Music Man, “You gotta know the territory.”

I’m a lawyer, the kind of lawyer who goes to court and tries to get people out of trouble, or at least minimizes the damage caused by bad judgment or worse. A while ago I represented a professional, let’s call him Steve, who had run into significant tax problems. So significant in fact, that the Internal Revenue Service elicited the assistance of the Department of Justice to prosecute him and seek his incarceration. Thus, the gentleman’s arrival on my doorstep.