After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents? house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents? food, sitting on his parents? couch, and watching The Price is Right. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties.
Rick?s father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasn?t going to get a job, so he went to law school instead.
This is the story of Rick?s journey from childhood to lawyerhood.
In Lawyer Boy, Rick uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny it?s criminal.
A quick, funny read... October 31, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I must admit that the only reason I picked up this book was because I am an alumnus of DePaul University. However, I was not dissapointed! This very quick read had me laughing out loud. The author speaks candidly of his experiences in law school without over-dramatizing the experience like other authors...
A light-hearted romp through the first year of law school and the streets of Chicago. September 27, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've always said most peoples find their careers by serendipity. That's what Rick Lax did. After resisting the family profession for a long time, Lax finally realize he can't be a magician or a band member anymore. Time to get serious. So he studies for the LSAT and gets admitted to DePaul Law School in downtown Chicago. And he likes it.
If you're going to law school, here's the way to go. Live at home while you watch a lot of television and study leisurely for the LSAT. Get your folks to pay for law school (even if you win a good scholarship). And get your folks to come tour law school campuses and help you find an apartment...a luxury apartment, no less, so you can roll out of bed for your nine o'clock classes.
Do parents really go with their kids to check out law schools?
Actually, Lax isn't a goof-off. He graduated from U of Michigan with a GPA that would be respectable if he weren't applying to top-tier law schools. He does well on the LSAT and figures out how to handle law school.
The chapters on law school were really good. Lax gives examples of LSAT questions and cases that demonstrate some basic legal principles...the kind of thing you might see on Judge Judy. Footnotes sprinkled throughout the book seem to be a parody of legal articles. In a memoir they're entertaining but also they can be annoying.
We meet just a few of Lax's classmaes. Lax gives more attention to his professors and the girls he dates. For some reason, his girl friends couldn't understand why he had to study.
So what is Lax doing now? I gather he's graduated and moving to Las Vegas to write a novel. Will he be a full-time writer or is he handling a legal job as well? Were his last two years as successful as the first? What happened to that vindictive Legal Writing professor?
But really...I'm just mildly curiou. Lawyer Boy was fun. Rick Lax has talent. That should be ehough.
an Unexpected Gem August 30, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Random get, turned out surprisingly good. it's a pleasant page turner. I didn't expect a LAW school memoir be this much entertaining.
The story is mainly about law school happenings but at the same time, it has very good mix of schooling, dating, challenge overcoming and ultimately growing up that any young adults may go through. Moreover, this author guy is right down honest and I really like that.
Not worth the effort. August 3, 2008 4 out of 13 found this review helpful
The author should be ashamed of himself, and asking someone to pay for this book should be a crime.
A very funny, creative and well-written book August 1, 2008 8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I read this book and reviewed it on my own blog (which I won't even plug here because I'm not shilling for that, either), and as I said there I think this is a very good and genuinely funny book. I probably should give it 5 stars, but I am giving it 4 only because I mostly reserve 5-star ratings for books by people like Faulkner or Jesus. But this is really good. You won't be disappointed.
Since for some reason seven people have tagged the one negative review as "helpful," I do want to respond to that one. I, at least, am not a family member or "Friend of Rick" or corporate shill. I don't know what that's all about. I am an attorney and writer who is irritatingly good at spotting typos, and I have read the whole book and if there are any, there aren't many. So don't be "lead astray," as that reviewer (ironically) wrote. The book is well done.
All rights reserved. Amazon.com is a trademark of Amazon.com Information about prices, products, services and merchants is provided by third parties and is for informational purposes only. Caribbean Travel Books does not represent or warrant the accuracy or reliability of the information, and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.
