The lawsuit alleging that Federal Savings Bank had monopolized issuing rights opened on Monday. The proceedings were public, and the entire courtroom was packed.
A careful look at the spectators in every gallery would reveal that there were hardly any ordinary people present.
Ordinary people had no interest in a case like this, nor could they squeeze their way in.
Everyone sitting there was either wealthy or connected to Federal Savings Bank.
They were either its clients or people who represented its clients.
Lin Qi sat in the third row, in a fairly inconspicuous seat.
Federal Savings Bank had assembled a super-luxurious defense team—a legal powerhouse made up of lawyers from the Federal Three Great Law Firms who specialized in monopoly cases.
It consisted of more than thirty renowned lawyers and perhaps a hundred or more staff members.
They had gathered a great deal of evidence and material, then decided on their courtroom strategy after discussing it among themselves.
Such an extravagant team was unprecedented in the history of the Federal judicial system.
It was not that no one had the financial resources, or was unwilling to spend that much money.
The problem was that the three great law firms were competitors. The more elite the legal team, the less willing they were to "share," let alone "share" with their competitors.
They would rather withdraw than work alongside a competitor.
But Federal Savings Bank was offering them too much money. Combined with its influence and connections, that had brought the three great law firms together in an unprecedented show of unity.
As if to counter such an extravagant team, every Prosecutor in the Federal Prosecutor General Office who had achieved outstanding results in the field of antitrust had also joined forces to form a massive, elite prosecution team!
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