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The Rooster Bar (2017)

by John Grisham

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Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no.… (more)
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
A story with a humourous thread although also challenging the US legal & education system. Three law students from a low performing law school decide to drop out in their final semester and try to do something about the huge debts they have accrued in student fees because the government supports their study by paying the colleges the fees with the students having to repay when they graduate and start work. Many colleges are for profit and rake off millions with some owners funding a wealthy lifestyle by owning multiple schools. Unsure how plausible the story is but it made for a good read. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | Jan 15, 2024 |
Interesting story involving 3 Law School students and highlighting the problems of lousy Law Schools and Student Debt along with practicing law without a license. ( )
  ZachMontana | Oct 24, 2023 |
Page-turner and glimpse into the legal training system in the US. ( )
  brakketh | May 18, 2023 |
The book focuses on 3 actual occurrences.
1. The scamming of students entering subpar law schools using government loans that can’t possibly get paid back.
2. A fictitious bank illegally open accounts in it customers name like what Wells Fargo did.
3. People in the US illegally who are then deported back to countries they haven’t lived in for years.
This could have been a great book if it had stuck to reality, but it just became too far fetched.
So read for a bit of escapist entertainment, rather than for reality sake.
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  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
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The end of the year brought the usual holiday festivities, though around the Fraier house thee was little to cheer.
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Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no.

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