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Category: Book
Author: Rick Lax
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Studio: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Label: St. Martin's Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 031237335X
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.092
EAN: 9780312373351
ASIN: 031237335X
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 loved lawyer boy December 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book because my son is a L1 and I thought it would bring me a little closer to understanding what his law school experience is like. It is humorous and easy to read. Some of the scenarios my son speaks of I have read about in the book!
 Throw away One L December 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm finishing my first semester at another Chicago Law School. Even though Lax is describing life at DePaul a couple years ago, I felt like he had set in my first semester classes while writing this book.
Like everyone else, I found my first semester of law school overwhelmingly stressful, and I sacrificed an afternoon of studying for finals to sit and read Lax's book. A good deal of my stress washed away after reading about how someone else survived. I think this book should be added to the recommended reading lists of a lot of law schools. A lot of the old stereo types that we read about in older books and see in movies like Legally Blonde have been replaced by a newer generation of professors. Lax's book, with it's extremely fresh experience, captured at least my 1L experience. Although a little older than me, Lax and I apparently both went to mid level Chicago law schools in the same decade, so I can't promise that it will equate to places further afield.
As far as the writing goes, people have compared Lax to David Sedaris, but his stories remind me more of a PG rated version of Tucker Max. I could honestly do with a little less time on his relationship issues and gym stories, but overall this book is a good freshman accomplishment, although I'm not sure how much entertainment someone not connected to law school will get out of it.
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.
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