Clue #13: Big Law to Little Law

When Bonjwing Lee accepted his position at Polsinelli in 2007, the starting salary for a first year associate in the Kansas City office was $105,000.

The Ulterior Epicure's restaurant log shows no international travel in 2007, which may have been a hardship to him. Whether he left for personal reasons or was pushed out due to performance (or concerns about his delayed admission to the bar), by the fall of 2008 Bonjwing Lee had left the high dollar, high pressure world of a 300+ attorney law firm for a small law firm of a dozen lawyers.