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Way to go buddy.
Take a bow Shishir. The trolls will find something to snipe at you with, but I hope you write on. So proud that a practicing lawyer wrote it.
It looks interesting but suffers from Tharoorenza.
I don’t understand why can’t lawyers write in simple and plain English.
100% he wrote himself no ghost writer likes like this.
Will read when I have more patience but treat this as a warning for anyone else who finds how lawyers write annoying.
If this was written in English I could have recommended this to many non-law folks also.
All in all this book is a good read. Will love to read it again!
Each story pivots around Edamarra Edwin and his detective-style approach to solving problems; but while each story is a separate episode, with its own thrills, together they all cumulatively reveal a lot about its enigmatic protagonist and the world he inhabits.
- Some large law firms are indistinguishable from multilevel marketing gigs. Like Amway’s homecare hucksters, each batch of a firm’s associates gives up a part of its earnings to pay for those before.
- 'We swim in different waters, so his incontinence doesn’t bother me,’ Edwin said to the brooding Rottweiler that was presiding over the firm’s Sexual Harassment Committee, struggling the whole time to remember whom she resembled.
- In her first year of law school, Anjali Mathur was fired with a bolshie disdain for the stifling, bourgeois mediocrity all around her. The exact pathways of young dissent were hazy to her now, but they had all led to a combination of ganja, men, and computer games.
Can't imagine that a corporate lawyer wrote this stuff - did he hire a ghost writer?
As a corporate lawyer, I found the book quite enjoyable and thought that the solutions found in each story were quite brilliant. A partners job is to know the law but to also know the situation better so as to apply and bend it as required to meet the client's requirements. Overall a very good read I thought although one does need to keep a dictionary at hand!
If you havent read it yet, must do!
On a more serious note, it's a page-turner of a book!
is this stuff real? do corporate lawyers really do all this manipulation etc?
I'm joining a top3 firm next year and am not sure about my decision...