 The theme of a young lawyer being fed up with a giant law firm and <unk> away to less lucrative but more satisfying career is shared with " The Associate " . The theme of a lawsuit against a giant corporation appeared in " The Runaway Jury " - but in the present book , the corporation is vindicated and proven to have been unjustly maligned ( at least on the specific drug which is the subject of the lawsuit ) and the mass tort lawyers are seen as greedy and <unk> , ultimately <unk> and leaving the protagonist 's tiny Chicago firm in the <unk> . 
