![]() No one in his right mind would stand in front of a judge and pass himself off as a lawyer.”Īt first, it seems to work, as the made-up law firm of Upshaw, Parker & Lane manage to pull together a gaggle of small cases. ![]() “The beauty in their scheme was the brazenness. We’ll hustle the streets because there’s no turning back.” They knew full well that they would be committing a felony: the unauthorized practice of the law. “We’ll survive by hiding and pretending to be other people. Burdened by student debt and shaken by the suicide of a friend, Mark Frazier, Todd Lucero and Zola Maal start up a law firm, taking actual cases and making it up as they go along in Washington, D.C. In “The Rooster Bar” (Doubleday, New York, 2017, 352 pages), he tells the tale of three law students who start practicing the law even if they haven’t finished law school or taken the bar yet. ![]() Aside from the corrupt big wigs at giant law firms, Grisham has written his share of stories about the street lawyers, the smalltime hustlers who’ll take on any case and operate at the very fringe of the legal profession.īut in his second novel in a most productive year, Grisham steps past that line. ![]() As the master of the legal thriller genre, John Grisham has written about some truly shady lawyers. ![]()
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