"Dershkin, Bellavita, Fishbein & Schlossel," said Freddy. "Three Jews and an Italian, and Tommy Killian is an Irishman. Let me tell you something, Sherman. The practice of law gets very specialized in New York. It's as if there are a lot of little . . . clans ... of trolls . . . I'll give you an example. If I was being sued in an automobile negligence case, I wouldn't want anybody at Dunning Sponget representing me. I'd go to one of these lawyers on lower Broadway who don't do anything else. They're the absolute bottom of the barrel of the legal profession. They're all Bellavitas and Schlossels. They're crude, coarse, sleazy, unappetizing—you can't even imagine what they're like. But that's who I'd go to. They know all the judges, all the clerks, the other lawyers—they know how to make the deals. If somebody named Bradshaw or Famsworth showed up from Dunning Sponget & Leach, they'd freeze him out. They'd sabotage him. It's the same way with criminal law. The criminal lawyers aren't exactly the bout en train, either, but in certain cases you've got to use them. Given that situation, Tommy Killian is a very good choice."