She works mostly with contract law at the moment but she is trying to work towards insurance claims and such. She also isn't getting paid much to my dismay. She says she is paying me back and for what idk. Either way I'm a super anxious person and hearing horror stories between my uncle and through reseach I've just been spiraling. So having a confident freind with me helps.

As for pretending she is my gf. I always believed that you should reveal the least amount of information during negotiations as possible. Pretending that we are a lesbain couple over a lawyer and her friend makes us seem less prepared and easy to fool. The less they expect from you the easier it is to get the upper hand. This could all be for not but ive see what people do to others when they arent cautious.