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Title: A must read for legal wannabes
Review: The truly outstanding aspect of this book is the accuracy with which it depicts the experience of a rookie lawyer in an ambitious law firm. Having entering the Bay Area legal scene a year after Susan Wolfe, I can vouch for the authenticity of Howard Rickover's angst. Yes, partners do dump projects on your desk that can't be billed and then chastise you for not having enough billable hours. No, partners generally don't get murdered in their offices.Anyhow, the mystery aspect of this book is adequate but the sense of life and greed in the 1980's legal world is very real. I left the law in 1989 - can only hope that things are better.My notes indicate this book won an Edgar for best first novel. I can't find any hint of sequel. Wolfe must have had to get her billable hours back up
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