Anyone who has ever worked as a non-senior partner in a law firm can easily relate to this well-written story about life in the American legal community. Grim choices, cynicism, stifled ambition conspire to kill optimism and idealism, not dramatically, but through a steady unrelenting grind that mirrors the ethical and moral descent of this story's protagonist and colleagues. If you're the least bit naive about the legal profession, this story will drop the scales from your eyes.