File this under “less than ideal.” 

Last month, as Jess Krannich of Kirkland & Ellis was driving from his downtown office in Salt Lake City to a hearing he was set to handle for client Sotheby’s International Realty, his tire blew out. During a time when most litigators want to be polishing the finer points of their argument outline, or at least taking some deep breaths, Krannich was dealing with the logistics of completing his journey to the courtroom. Semis whizzed by the onramp to Interstate 80 right around the start of the climb up the canyon to the glitzy mountain town Park City where the hearing was set to take place.