Lawyer Boy by Rick Lax

by Rick
(USA)

Rick Lax

Rick Lax is going to law school.

A semi-professional magician and a general disgrace, Rick decides it’s time to get his life together and join his father’s ranks in making “The Only Acceptable Career Choice.” Born to a long line of lawyers, Rick knew that it was only a matter of time until he too entered the fold. Besides, it’s hard to get girls with lines like “Want to come back to my parents’ place?”

After suffering a few sudden, crushing disappointments, he is accepted to DePaul Law School in Chicago. With a dry, intelligent wit, Rick Lax dissects the application process and his first year of law school for our amusement. Notoriously difficult, Rick’s trials and travails prove that even the most unprepared and unlikely 1L’s can survive the test of the first year, and furthermore can maintain and even nourish a lively sense of humor.

Peppered with explanations of real cases and legal jargon, reading LAWYER BOY (St. Martin’s Press / Hardcover / July 2008 / 0-312-37335-X / $24.95) is like borrowing notes from the class clown—It won’t get you an A, but it’s probably the best reading you’ll find in law school.

About the Author

RICK LAX attends the DePaul University College of Law and works as a freelance writer. He has written for The Michigan Daily, The American Enterprise, and The Ethical Spectacle. An amateur magician, he lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he continues to practice prestidigitation. He blogs at ricklax.com.


Praise for Lawyer Boy:

"Immensly entertaining."
—A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically


"A very entertaining work by a clever, hopeful, and unavoidably unscrupulous guy. My kinda book."
—Harry Anderson, author of Games You Can't Lose and star of Night Court and Dave's World


"Rick Lax may be at law school—and he may try to impress girls at parties by doing magic tricks—but he isn't a total geek. Okay, that's a lie. He is a total geek—but Lawyer Boy is thoroughly entertaining nevertheless."
—Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and The Sound of No Hands Clapping


"Lawyer Boy is a blast . . . Rick Lax is an ideal guide to law school, generous with practical advice and juicy gossip. It’s The Paper Chase on nitrous—an oddball’s journey into the deepest inner circles of law school hell. The absolute best magician/law student/cowbellist memoir ever written."
—Christopher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile


"Rick Lax writes with a sharp wit and a fine sense of the absurd. Lawyer Boy might not help anyone succeed in law school, but it will certainly make the experience more enjoyable."
—Steven Lubet, author of Lawyers' Poker