The Litigators
Posted on: February 26, 2012
Name : The Litigators
Author: John Grisham
Genre : Legal Thriller
Pages : 436
Language: English
Publication Year: 2011
Is Review Spoiler: No
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Rating: 5/5
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The master of legal fiction is back!, this time with gripping legal thriller. The litigators is the first Grisham book which I liked much and had really fun reading it. I say it again ‘This is by far one of the best book by the greatest legal thriller writer of all time.”
In his latest installment, Grisham tells a story of the young Harvard pass-out lawyer who run from the well paid corporate job and found a new thrill in a ambulance-chaser law firm ‘Finely & Figg’. This firm has hell lot of problem with only two lawyers and one secretary and least of which is they don’t even have money to purchase a nice billboard advertisement instead they use BINGO cards for advertising there firm.
I have been Grisham’s biggest fan for many years, I loved his some awesome books like ‘The Firm’, ‘The Client’, ‘A Time To Kill’. If you recently started thinking after his few not so good books that Grisham won’t be coming up with the legal thriller like he used to, then this is a book for you. The story is so gripping that you won’t think for second for putting it aside.
The characters seem so alive with gripping story line and best legal thriller, a best work from Girsham. Highly recommended!I hate that I read this book so fast, I could have enjoyed it for few more days but this book so gripping and enthralling that you cannot even think to put it down!.
The characters are so alive – David Zinc, a young 33 year old, Harvard pass-out shows up at work one morning to prestigious law firm with 600 attorneys, where he works for fifteen hours a day, he freaks out in elevator and run out of the firm goes to nearest bar and spends whole day there and winds up at the doorsteps of Finely & Figg law firm asks for job.
Wally Figg – a second partner in Finely and Figg, who is drunk spend many months in rehab now in recovery, searches for clients in streets, hospital, funerals, and every where there is a chance of getting a client. One day, he winds up at the funeral office and meets the son of dead client who thinks his father died due to side effects of Krayoxx which is rumored to cause heart attacks Wally Figg believes he’s hit the jackpot.
Oscar Finely – A senior partner, 65-year-old, cop turned lawyer, expert in divorce cases who thinks he waster 30 years of his life in ambulance-chasing law firm. He don’t have any thing in his bank balance and planning a divorce with his wife.
As the dreams of settlement fades away, the protagonist Zinc and his two litigators take the class action all the way to the federal court and face trial against the legal team led by the same company the protagonist left.
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little.
Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.
And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed, any job—even one with Finley & Figg—looks okay to him.
With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with
annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.
A little online research confirms Wally’s suspicions—a huge plaintiffs’ firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action,
and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to enter a courtroom!
It almost seems too good to be true.
And it is.
5 Responses to "The Litigators"
February 26, 2012 at 3:21 pm
I haven’t read a John Grisham book for a while actually. I enjoyed The Runaway Jury quite a bit.
I myself have published a book recently and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing it. It is a collection of short stories called Shades of Grey and I can provide you with a code that will enable you to download a copy for free.
February 26, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Surely, I will review it, mail me the code 🙂
February 26, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Thank you very much!
The code is QH83T and you can download a copy of the book here – http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134401
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February 26, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I have not read John Grisham. Ever. And I guess for someone like you, that must be like blasphemy. 🙂
Good review. I’ll make it a point to read at least this one.
February 26, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Ha ha, but he is great legal fiction writer.. lemme know once you read this!