Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a.

Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.īut maybe there's a way out. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. 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. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. It's also full of lifeless, inauthentic dialog. It opens at a glacial pace with a massive info dump, a lazy way to introduce the reader to characters and setting by simply narrating information for pages on end. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. The Rooster Bar seems hurriedly written and unedited. #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.

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