[The hardest question that could be asked. Kim pauses, and the answer comes with a twinge of hesitation. Something delicate, like this is embarrassing to admit:]

I want to to open a pro bono practice that gives everyday people world-class defense, but it'd cost more to operate than I could make in my whole career. [Another pause, and she withdraws back into that professional poise, a thread of optimism:] The contract payments here are hard to beat.