role: user

text: ok - let's switch back to the conversation with Jennifer.  do you remember that?


role: assistant

text:
Yep. Jennifer Rench (`jennifer@jrenchlaw.com`).

Where we left it:
- You e-signed her service agreement (you noted signed **2026-02-25**).
- Her rates per the agreement: attorney **$325/hr**, associate/contract **$250/hr**, paralegal/law clerk **$125/hr** (travel rate **$125/hr**).
- The agreement requires an initial advanced-fee deposit, but the amount wasn’t visible on the copy we could see, so we emailed her asking her to **confirm the required initial advanced fee** so you can pay and she can open the file.
- That email also gave her the core background: SF marriage (02/25/2005), one child (Juno, they/them), trust distribution stream (~$19.5k/mo gross) and your support/retirement-equalization concerns + the “30% + life insurance backstop” starting framework.

Want me to pull your most recent INBOX email(s) from Jennifer (bounded, last few days) and summarize where things stand?


text: can you scan our existing coms with her and make sure you don't see any deposit amount?


text: Scanning the saved Rench comms in-repo first (quick grep for “deposit/advanced fee/retainer” and dollar amounts), then I’ll do a bounded Apple Mail pull for recent Rench emails to confirm there isn’t a deposit amount hiding there.


text:
I scanned everything we have saved in-repo under `records/lawyers/rench/` plus your last INBOX email from Jennifer.

- In the repo notes/drafts: **no initial deposit amount** appears anywhere. The only deposit-related number I see is the **$1,000 minimum** trust-account replenishment note, and we explicitly noted the **initial deposit field looked blank** in the e-sign copy.
- In Apple Mail INBOX: the only Jennifer email I could reliably pull is her **2026-02-24** “Understood…” reply; **no deposit amount** there.

I tried scanning beyond INBOX (to find the service-agreement email if it was archived), but Mail automation kept timing out when listing mailboxes, so I couldn’t confirm any archived/Sent items via `letters` right now.

Net: I still don’t see a deposit amount anywhere, and we still need Jennifer to confirm it.