As Najib Razak buckles down for the first day of his most significant trial in the 1MDB financial scandal, his lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, is more concerned not only with the laundry list of charges his client is facing — which include, but are not limited to, hundreds of millions of allegedly siphoned off dollars flowing into his personal bank account — he’s also worried about his client’s comfort, namely just how much cushion there is for Najib to sit on.