Jeremy Blackman Anonymous Lawyer

Anonymous Lawyer

Jeremy Blackman

Holt, July 2006, $25.00, 320 pp

ISBN 0805079815

He chooses to remain the Anonymous Lawyer because if his identity was known, he would be out of a job. He is a high powered attorney with a lot of seniority in his firm and he doesn't want to jeopardize it. In his blog he tells how the partners treat the summer interns nicely so when they finish law school they will want to return to as associate lawyers. The associates are treated like garbage but suck it up because they hope one day to make partner. His goal is to become chairman but he is in competition with The Jerk, who has no ethics about power or seniority.

The Anonymous Lawyer is a narcissistic person and the only person he is interested in is himself. Sometimes he e-mails his anonymous niece who knows about the blog and encourages him. He has no interest in his wife or his two children. All he wants is to beat The Jerk especially when the old chairman dies. Someone who knows him from the firm is willing to help if that person is made partner.

None of the characters in Anonymous Lawyer are nice, especially the narrator, as they all want to get ahead and don't care who they step on to do so. The blog writer is nasty just for the fun of it and readers will loathe him because he is a crooked hard-hearted individual. The audience sees what goes on behind the scenes at a law firm and some of the scenes are hilarious while others are disgusting. Jeremy Blackman has written a unique fascinating work with all the characters trying to protect the guilty.

Harriet Klausner