Unbillable Hours: A True Story
The storypart memoir, part hard-hitting exposeof a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them. Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good life for Ian Graham. But the harsh reality of life as an associate quickly became evident. The work was grueling and boring, the days were impossibly long, and Graham's main goal was to rack up...
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The story—part memoir, part hard-hitting expose—of a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them. Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good life for Ian Graham. But the harsh reality of life as an associate quickly became evident. The work was grueling and boring, the days were impossibly long, and Graham’s main goal was to rack up billable hours. But when he took an unpaid pro bono case to escape the drudgery, Graham found the meaning in his work that he’d been looking for. As he worked to free Mario Rocha, a gifted young Latino who had been wrongly convicted at 16 and sentenced to life without parole, the shocking contrast between the quest for money and power and Mario’s desperate struggle for freedom led Graham to look long and hard at his future as a corporate lawyer. Clear-eyed and moving, written with the drama and speed of a John Grisham novel and the personal appeal of Scott Turow’s account of his law school years, Unbillable Hours is an arresting personal story with implications for all of us.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction xi1 I'm Going to Prison 12 Make Me an Offer 113 Welcome Back 314 Baby Sharks 415 Monkey Scribe 536 Murder in the Barrio 677 Dreams of Freedom 798 God Boxed Me In 919 Right to Counsel 10510 Denied 11311 You're Going to Save His Life 12712 You'll Do Fine 13713 Nice to Meet You 14314 These Deficiencies Have Cost Me 15315 Strike Two 16916 As Good as It Gets 18317 A Lengthy Process 19718 What's This? 20519 A Strongly Worded Decision 21320 A Good Question 231Postscript 239
