Book Review

Double Billing (1998)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Writer: Cameron Stracher; Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction; Publisher: Morrow

If you prefer your lawyering without criminally short skirts and workdays that culminate in impromptu bathroom-stall dance numbers, try this scathingly funny and grim portrait of the legal profession. ''A mild compulsive disorder can be a beautiful thing,'' the freshly minted Harvard Law School grad narrator-author remarks. As he trudges through life at a mega-size firm, he details the lengths that overworked, hyper-ambitious associates (fueled by client-subsidized gourmet takeout) will go to for advancement. Although Cameron Stracher's memoir occasionally lapses into dry legalese, Double Billing should be required reading for the aspiring rich and shameless. B

Originally posted Dec 18, 1998 Published in issue #463 Dec 18, 1998 Order article reprints

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