Anonymous Lawyer
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a weblog to tell the...
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He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a weblog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession.Meet Anonymous Lawyer. The summer's about to start, and he's got a new crop of interns. But he's also got a few things bothering him: The Jerk, his bitter rival, is determined to beat him out for the chairman's job. And Anonymous Wife is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And there's that secret blog he's writing, which is just a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e-mail from someone inside the firm who knows he's its author.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805079814 (0805079815)
Publish date: July 25th 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Quick read. I can see Jeremy Piven in this role. 3 stars: It's a little exaggerated, esp. since this is pre-economic change.
Scathing view of life inside a biglaw firm. Could be some truth to it. Published as a series blog and email entries.
Based on a real blog (still extant) by the no longer anonymous lawyer at a large firm, the novel is in the form of a series of emails and blog postings from the Hiring Partner to his niece, an aspiring lawyer, but not of the same ilk as her uncle.Our partner despises Daylight Savings Time because in...