Till Billable Hours Do Us Part: The Global Rise of the Jet-Setting Divorce Lawyer
PARIS—At 3:17 p.m., while the rest of humanity pretends to work, a discreet brass plaque on Avenue Foch begins to glow with the quiet satisfaction of a slot machine that just hit triple cherries. Behind the door: Maître Sylvie Arquette, avocate en droit de la famille, billing €950 an hour to untie the Gordian knot…