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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Take a young lawyer at a big New York firm who is being set up by a senior partner to take the fall on a huge case, and add deception, corruption and evil plots and you have a fast paced read. The author is close to his subject as he too was a top flight lawyer. This is a fun book. My thanks to the author and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy. ( ) I received a copy through the First to Read program. Law has always been a bit of a mystery to me; it almost seems like law takes interesting topics like entertainment, and makes them boring. So I never wanted to be a lawyer. However, law school, law firms, and legal politics have always interested me. This book concerns a young partner in a fancy "big law" firm, who comes from a modest background. He is asked to work on an international case by the senior partner, and gets embroiled in many complications. I didn't fully understand the legal details, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the intrigue. I won't give away the plot, but much mayhem ensued. At the climactic moment, the reader is strung along in suspense in a literal page-turner. I almost thought we wouldn't learn what happened. Quite a ride. I would like to read more books by this author. no reviews | add a review
As America's giant law firms start to behave like Wall Street conglomerates, Big Law arrives as a page-turning, in-the-know, cautionary novel of a legal revolution gone mad. As a young partner at Dunn & Sullivan, one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Carney Blake has represented dozens of high-profile clients. But being a pawn of Big Law often means defending the corporate dirt bags of the world-the spillers, the drillers, and the killers. Morality aside, Carney is starting to make a name for himself, despite having a father who resents his success and an unpredictable big brother bent on self-destruction. So when Carney is suddenly asked by his firm's chairman to represent the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit-and not, as usual, the corporate bad guys-he warily accepts. Maybe they're turning a corner, he thinks. And even if they aren't, when else has a junior partner been assigned such a major case, with a possible billion-dollar payout? But Carney can't fool himself for very long. As he digs deeper into the case, he uncovers corruption and maliciously orchestrated schemes that go straight to the top of Dunn & Sullivan-along with the true motives behind his placement on the case. Written by former top litigator Ron Liebman, Big Law is a thrilling, fast-paced roman a clef that exposes the secrecy, deception, and machinations underlining America's most powerful mega-firms. No library descriptions found. |
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