Fallen: Confessions of a Disbarred Lawyer

A new eBook from Lost Light Books. The true story of a lawyer's scandalous fall from grace.

Available from http://fallenlawyer.com.

Bad Lawyer by Lulu Reviews (Thu 22 May 4:22 pm EDT 2003) last modified on Fri 23 May 1:35 pm EDT 2003

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, which purports to be an anonymous memoir, "Bad Attorney." Only it's not fiction, 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 on 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.