In Double Billing, Cameron Stracher gives us his account of the ordeal of a young associate at a major Wall Street law firm. Fresh out of law school (in Stracher’s case, Harvard), such apprentices to the bar provide the grist for the mill that will grind them into partners who can earn more than a million dollars a year by providing counsel to America’s most powerful corporations. Yet only about five percent will survive long enough to achieve that Holy Grail partnership.

As the author vividly describes, law school may teach you how to think like a lawyer, but it’s being an associate that teaches you how to behave like one. Or misbehave – Stracher doesn’t mice words about the outrageous practices and questionable conduct of many of the lawyers on the highest rungs of the legal profession.

In a stylish and witty manner that has earned him comparison to an early Philip Roth, Stracher does for the legal profession what Michael Lewis’s Liars’ Poker did for the financial industry. The result is a tell-all glimpse into the cutthroat world of corporate law from the perspective of the low man on the totem pole.

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a memoir by Cameron Stracher
Published: William Morrow; 1 edition (October 21, 1998)
Pages: 256
Available in: English
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