Love the opening graph from Sarah Wheaton, Nancy Cook and Andrew Restuccia at Politico:

Only in Washington would powerful people pay lawyers up to $1,000 an hour to comb through every aspect of their lives in search of potential career killers.

Not sure about the Washington bit, we do this for clients nationwide. Worth noting that anyone on the shortlist for appointments should have completed this research already. But if not, drop us a line.