ISBN: 0-88739-377-2
174 pp.
Size: 9 x 6
Pub Date: 5/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Law Review, The
S. Scott Gaille
In The Law Review, attorney S. Scott Gaille sets the record straight about how lawyers get their start. Himself a graduate of the law school at the University of Chicago, he writes knowingly about the pressure-the collision of exigency and idealism, the cost to personal relationships-as the brightest, if not the best, begin their legal studies.
Grayson has just started law school at the University of Chicago with dreams of a prestigious legal career and, one day, running for public office. The gateway to these opportunities is membership on the exclusive legal journal, the "Law Review." While vying for membership on the journal, Grayson becomes romantically involved with one of its leading editors, the elusive Aris. He soon finds himself in the middle of the editors' ever-escalating fight for control of the "Law Review" -and for Aris's bed. When one of the editors is found lying in a pool of blood, Grayson realizes that he knows too much. Torn between conflicting loyalties, he finds his promising future, and even his life, in jeopardy.
The Law Review examines obsession in its many forms, and the price that some are willing to pay to become a member of society's most lettered class.
Review: "Readers of Scott Turow's One L may be suprised to learn that things have gotten worst at our top law schools. Gaille's 'One L', Grayson Bullock, falls head over heels for the sexually adventurous 'Three L', Aris Byrd, who proves to be his hot ticket into a new world, one in which everything depends on clawing your way up... But with all the clawing, everything of real human worth is shredded; friendship and loyalty, honesty and decency, and even love itself are compromised, if not utterly destroyed, in an orgy of unbridled self-interest, blackmail and murder."
-Tom Scorza, author of Lady Justice and former federal prosecutor
Bio: S. SCOTT GAILLE was a member of the "Law Review" at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated with high honors in 1995 and then clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He now practices law and writes in Houston.
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