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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
A great read. Even though it has the classic Grisham elements of the young and inexperienced trial lawyer, the large and questionably corrupt corporation, and the type-A personality law firm at the defense, the storyline has unexpected twists. To be honest, there was a point where I wondered how Grisham was going to give our protagonist the typically happy ending. But that's what kept me reading to the end. As usual, a nice, quick diversion from more intellectual fiction, with identifiable characters and situations. I actually put down "The Confession" to read this one.
The Litigators features a couple seat-of-their-pants lawyers whose “boutique” law firm Finley & Figg wallows in accident claims. The office dog is called AC for Ambulance Chaser. Wally Figg, however, dreams of class-action wealth–a dream he thinks will come true when one of his clients died and he learns about Krayoxx, a cholesterol drug that is suspected of causing heart attack and stroke. There’s a big class-action suit and he wants to get on the train. Meanwhile, their firm also takes on a new lawyer, David Zinc, a refugee from a mega-firm that had him working a hundred hours a week. He was well-paid with no time to spend the money or to build a family with his wife.
The more common civil liability thriller is like Erin Brockovich or Grisham’s “The Rainmaker” but this one is kind of the opposite. Finley and Figg really are the kind of sleazy tort lawyers that give tort lawyers a bad name and fuel the call for tort reform. Nonetheless, they are likable sleazeballs. David Zinc, however, is the hero, the guy who has to argue a bad case with bad facts for his first case.
The Litigators is a fun read. It has more humor than the usual Grisham novel. Grisholm generally adds some form of public service information to his stories and this was no exception, giving readers an overview of the practice of doing drug testing in developing countries where there are fewer safeguards to protect subjects from dangerous drugs. It’s cheaper and easier to bury bad studies if the study is done far away.
I was less thrilled that he showed lawyers pursuing a bad tort case since that feeds into the call for tort reform. The thing is, tort reform is all about weakening consumer protection and safety and immunizing corporations. Corporations talk about frivolous lawsuits, but since tort lawyers don’t get paid if they don’t win–since they have to pay all the expenses up front and get nothing but bills if they lose–there’s no incentive to file frivolous suits. While Grisham includes that reality, I was not thrilled with feeding into the stereotype of tort lawyers as corrupt.
Still, the story was fast, fun, and lively. It was a bon bon.
The Litigators at Random House Books
John Grisham Author Site
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/9780345536884/
The more common civil liability thriller is like Erin Brockovich or Grisham’s “The Rainmaker” but this one is kind of the opposite. Finley and Figg really are the kind of sleazy tort lawyers that give tort lawyers a bad name and fuel the call for tort reform. Nonetheless, they are likable sleazeballs. David Zinc, however, is the hero, the guy who has to argue a bad case with bad facts for his first case.
The Litigators is a fun read. It has more humor than the usual Grisham novel. Grisholm generally adds some form of public service information to his stories and this was no exception, giving readers an overview of the practice of doing drug testing in developing countries where there are fewer safeguards to protect subjects from dangerous drugs. It’s cheaper and easier to bury bad studies if the study is done far away.
I was less thrilled that he showed lawyers pursuing a bad tort case since that feeds into the call for tort reform. The thing is, tort reform is all about weakening consumer protection and safety and immunizing corporations. Corporations talk about frivolous lawsuits, but since tort lawyers don’t get paid if they don’t win–since they have to pay all the expenses up front and get nothing but bills if they lose–there’s no incentive to file frivolous suits. While Grisham includes that reality, I was not thrilled with feeding into the stereotype of tort lawyers as corrupt.
Still, the story was fast, fun, and lively. It was a bon bon.
The Litigators at Random House Books
John Grisham Author Site
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/9780345536884/
I haven 19t met a John Grisham book I didn 19t like, and this was no exception to that. This was a fascinating inside look at product litigation, about a cholesterol drug that was deemed to be causing heart attacks, and about the lawyers on both sides of the issue. I liked this book for delving into the legal aspects of suing a drug company for a perceived bad product.
I started reading The Litigators by John Grisham last Tuesday, on its first day of release, and finished it today.
This one is more about the journey than the ultimate destination, but I found it quite satisfying.
http://goption.com/2011/10/the-litigators/
This one is more about the journey than the ultimate destination, but I found it quite satisfying.
http://goption.com/2011/10/the-litigators/
I don't know what went wrong with my reading of this book. I usually enjoy Grisham's books but I didn't enjoy this one. I kept waiting for the pace and suspense to pick up but it never did. I was bored all the way through and couldn't wait to finish. Pity.
This was so much fun! It's been years since I read a Grisham book - King of Torts may have been the last one, though that only sounds vaguely familiar. But this was a great reentry. Im not sure if Grisham intends to write more funny books - this certainly wasn't a edge of your seat thriller, but it did keep me up nights reading and I laughed all the way through it.
3,5 bintang sebenarnya.
aku suka karena jarang2 novel grisham berakhir dengan nada bahagia seorang pengacara sukses.
review lengkap ada di
http://readbetweenpages.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-litigators.html
aku suka karena jarang2 novel grisham berakhir dengan nada bahagia seorang pengacara sukses.
review lengkap ada di
http://readbetweenpages.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-litigators.html
I mean I know John Grisham is a mass-market-paperback writer and kind of just churns out legal thrillers to put it bluntly but this was a step below what I was expecting; the entire story played off stereotypes of poor immigrants and black women who "come from the projects" and middle-aged men ending up with rich divorcees... I couldn't handle it. Of course, I did like the ending; our trusted protagonist makes some good for some people, even within the crappiest excuse for a law firm I've ever heard of.