I don’t think this read was on par with some of his other legal thrillers (leaving aside the classic A Time to Kill, I’m a big fan of the Firm and The Pelican Brief) but it makes a nice beach read. I also liked that Grisham pulled the background events from several real life news stories: the for-profit law school scams (inspired by the Atlantic article on the same) and the Wells Fargo scandal about shady account practices. This was a fun, quick read, even if the lawyer in me was appalled at the risks they were running in practicing without insurance. The benefits to the new plan are twofold: no requirement to pass the bar (for which their school has inadequately prepared them) and no student loans to pay back. When a shared personal tragedy causes them to rethink their life choices, they abandon their plan to graduate for one of assumed identities and ‘unauthorized legal practice’ in criminal and personal injury law. Unfortunately, their law school, Foggy Bottom, is a bottom tier school charging top tier prices, and once they graduate into a saturated market their degrees may be nearly worthless while their debt will be astronomical. John Grisham’s 25 th legal thriller centers on three law students, Todd, Mark and Lola, who are about to enter their final semester.
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