Double Billing - Hardcover

Stracher, Cameron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688147593 ISBN 13: 9780688147594

Publisher: William Morrow, 1998

Synopsis

In a humorous but disturbing expose+a7 of the legal profession, a lawyer recounts his experiences as a young associate at a major corporate law firm on Wall Street, where he was privy to scandalous duplicity and malpractice. 35,000 first printing.

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Review

"This is a wise, elegant, and quite wonderful book...'Bartleby the Serivener' is still read in law schools all over the country. "Double Billing should be too."--John Jay Osborn, "San Francisco Chronicle; author of "The Paper Chase"Stracher is a wonderful writer with a terrific eye and a voice of absolute grace. I can't remember when I enjoyed a book as much as this one."--Lisa Scottoline, author of "Mistaken Identity""Double Billingmay do for associates what Scott Turow's "One L did for elite law schools. Surely it will become necessary reading of the law students and young lawyers entering that world...The book is something else, too. It's a good read."--"The American Lawyer"Stracher's characterizations are vivid and humane, his criticisms are convincing and his observations of workaday lawyering are as sharp as the corners of a legal brief."--"Publishers Weekly"If you prefer your lawyering without criminally short skirts and workdays that culminate in impromptu bathroom-stall dance numbers, try this scathingly funny and grim portrait of the legal profession..."Double Billing should be required reading for the aspiring rich and shameless."--"Entertainment Weekly

From the Author

The worst $100,000 job I ever had.
Ever wonder whether you ought to feel sorry for a twenty-five year old making a hundred thousand dollars a year? For a hundred thousand dollars, most of us would endure almost any kind of misery. Or would we? After writing about it for two and half years (and living it for three), I've come to the conclusion that no amount of money can make a miserable job bearable. I know you won't believe me, and many of you will leap at the opportunity to be rich and miserable, while others will curse those with the opportunity, but remember -- I told you so. Read it here, first.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688147593
• ISBN 13: 9780688147594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256