'All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and make big bucks.'
For our tenth book of the year I recommend The Rainmaker by John Grisham. Rudy Baylor is in his final term of law school, and, desperate for work, takes on the case of a terminally ill young man whose family has been denied their insurance claims by an influential insurance company. In his attempts to reveal how the family have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, he comes to realise he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds in the history of civil litigation. Here is the worksheet.
