Look What You Made Me Do: Confronting Heartbreak & Harassment in Big Law - Softcover

Gordon, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218361693

Publisher: Erin Gordon, 2024

Synopsis

A powerful, unvarnished memoir about ambition, harassment, and the hidden costs of speaking up.

Fresh out of law school, Erin Gordon thought she’d arrived — a junior attorney at a major California law firm with a world of opportunity ahead. But within weeks, the promise of her legal career collapsed under the weight of blatant workplace bullying and humiliating harassment from those in power. With no support from senior lawyers or firm leadership, she was forced to make an impossible choice: pursue justice or preserve her career — she couldn’t do both.

What followed wasn’t just a career derailment — it was a long, simmering wound. In Look What You Made Me Do, Gordon uses real memos, emails, handwritten notes, and fresh interviews with former colleagues and experts to pull back the curtain on Big Law’s toxic culture. Part personal memoir, part investigative journalism, this book is a battle cry against unchecked power and the shame it inflicts on ambitious women.

Honest, unflinching, and deeply human, this is a story of resilience and survival that will resonate with anyone who’s ever loved a job, lost themselves in it, and had to pick up the pieces — in law, business, or any workplace where the rules are unwritten and the consequences are real.

About this title

About the Author

Erin Gordon is a legal affairs journalist and the author of several novels. She lives in San Francisco. Learn more at ErinGordonAuthor.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Erin Gordon
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218361693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220