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Did you ever see the Abel Ferrara movie "Bad Lieutenant,"
with Harvey Keitel? It's about a NY cop on the edge of
annihilating himself, whose behavior and character have
so deteriorated that it is unclear that redemption is even possible.

One might well call this book, an anonymous memoir,
"Bad Attorney." Only it's supposed to be a true story,
and at the end of the book no gesture of redemption
seems forthcoming.

But it's a mesmerizing read. The author begins his
tale by describing a single lawsuit over a fall from
a horse in which he was never able to bring himself
to file the papers necessary to go to court. He goes
n from there to recount in affecting detail his
grossly incompetent law practice, his systematic
deceit of clients, the day-trading habit that he
embezzled money from clients in order to support, and
his eventual disbarment. The legal details are particularly juicy.

Woven into this narrative of self-destruction, too, is
the author's infidelity to his wife, scenes from two marriages
(the second to a woman twenty years his junior),
and his attempts to make a living first selling cars
and then as an Internet pop-up advertiser and salesman
for “work-at-home” scams. The tone of the narrative is
neither apologetic nor boastful; if anything, it tends
toward shell-shocked. Read this book as a cautionary tale
care when picking out your next lawyer.

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