All they want is to endure their last semester at Foggy Bottom Law School in Washington, D.C., and never return. Friends and third-year law students Mark Frazier, Todd Lucero, and Zola Maal are deep in debt. Inspired by an Atlantic article, this insightful, if flawed, novel from bestseller Grisham (Camino Island) highlights the disturbing world of for-profit legal education. Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar.ĭon’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon! 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. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.
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