 The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham , his 25th fiction novel overall . The Litigators is about a two @-@ partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a <unk> reduction drug by a major <unk> drug company . The protagonist is a Harvard Law School <unk> big law firm <unk> who stumbles upon the <unk> and joins it only to find himself <unk> against his old law firm in this case . The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham 's prior novels . 
