What if this process was too far along to stop, and she’d let her friend down? Lawyers in housing court deal with all manner of distraught men and women facing evictions with no ready answers, no job, no income. Here was this client, Sheila Sullivan, and her friend with an organized stack of documents drawing a clear line from problem to solution. The lawyer looked at the two women facing her. Ms. Sullivan remembers that day in 2013 when the new neighbor next door rang her buzzer because she had locked herself out.

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Persons: Dupuy, she’d, Sullivan, Sheila Sullivan