Want another reason to hate lawyers? Read The Boys' Club (#992) by Erica Katz, who is, of course, a lawyer who works for one of the Big Money Firms she skewers in this novel.
Alex Vogel has graduated from Harvard and been recruited by one of the top law practices in New York City, despite having worked her last internship for an animal shelter. No money to be made there! She's bright, attractive and ambitious; determined to claw her way into the most powerful group in Klasko & Fitch. Mergers & Acquisitions is where the power rests. All other groups in the practice are mere supporters of this money-making monolith. It's all about the money, the prestige, the designer clothes, the expense account restaurants, the free-flowing liquor and drugs, heavy emphasis on the money. Soon Alex is practically living at the office, breaking up with her live-in boyfriend, slipping into office affairs and disposing of any morals she might have had going in. It's not a pretty picture, until she realizes she's being dangled as sexual bait for K & F's biggest client. When she is physically assaulted, she has to take a stand. (But only for other women in Big Money Firms, mind you!)
An unpleasant book about an unpleasant person with not even a clear moral imperative to uplift the story even the slightest. Money gets away with everything, with the lawyers there to back the the evildoers and profit from them. Ugh. My advice, for which I won't even charge you? Don't waste your time on The Boys' Club, or enrich Erica Katz further in her side job.
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