Eli Byrne

Eli Byrne, a character from the Laws of Attraction series, is one of the co-founders of McGraw Byrne. He makes his first appearance in Book 1, Chapter 16, although he can be mentioned for the first time in Chapter 14.

Appearance
Eli has short gray hair, light skin, and green eyes. He wears a blue suit jacket and a light brown sweater with a gray shirt and a black tie underneath.

Personality
Eli is very old-school, as well as hard-working, condescending and unreasonable. According to you, he and Martin see their clients only as walking wallets after what happened with Sadie.

Background
According to Sadie, she and Eli built McGraw Byrne from the ground up, and it was their hard work that transformed it from an average small-town firm to the highest-grossing firm in the nation. They also managed the livelihoods of several hundred employees, and carved out a legacy with their bare hands.

Book 1

 * Chapter 14: Nondisclosure (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 16: Collusion

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Jury's Still Out
 * Chapter 3: Ivy League
 * Chapter 4: Off The Record
 * Chapter 5: Ricci & Associates (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 7: Heavy Hitters (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 8: Pulling The Thread (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 9: You've Got Mail (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Dance with the Devil (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 11: Yacht Crashers (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 12: Trail of Corruption (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Inadmissible Evidence (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: Leverage (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 16: All Rise

Sadie McGraw
She and Eli have been friends since their law school days, and have founded McGraw Byrne together. If you choose to strategize on how to take Sadie down, Aislinn tells you that it would be hard to win Eli over and that you should focus on the rest of the partners, while Gabe says that Eli will only be convinced to vote against her if the evidence is overwhelming. Therefore, if you end up convincing the partners, Eli says that he can't let her be the cause and the destruction of the firm, and votes to oust Sadie.

Martin Vanderweil
For the most part, Eli takes Martin's side against you. Such examples are when Martin wants to supervise you cases, when a new candidate must be chosen, and when Martin believes that your partnership must be rescinded until you are ready for that responsibility.

Your Character
Eli is very antagonistic towards you, and when you turn away George Armstrong, he is angry at you. He says that you have a tendency to act on you own volition without considering the impact of your choices, and then votes yes to you having supervision from Martin, because he believes that hierarchy exists for a reason. After the article about McGraw Byrne is released in Chapter 4, he blames you for the outcome and votes to remove you as Junior Partner.

Beau McGraw
According to Beau, while Eli has a soft spot for him, he has an even softer spot for Martin, which is one of the reasons Beau decides to defect from MB.

Trivia

 * He shares the same name as Eli Sipes from Wake the Dead, Elijah Greene from Open Heart, Elijah Harris from My Two First Loves, and Elijah Simmons from Baby Bump.
 * His character model resembles Barthelemy Beaumont from The Royal Heir.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 10, Sadie reveals that he is on the board of Bellboro General, the hospital involved in the conservatorship scheme.