“The title is accurate: This is a book about why Dorn quit the legal profession. And we are lucky that she did. Because otherwise, we would not be treated to stories about judges who sip bourbon in chambers and browse eBay auctions when they ought to be listening to homicide testimony.
Dorn is also tough on herself. She admits that she has never shredded a document or read a contract all the way through. She confesses to leaving confidential papers in bars. She spent most of her clerkship writing a novel in the body of a judicial order form. And more! ‘Bad Lawyer’ is an impious banger written with razor blades of critique embedded within.
Read if you like: Legal history, watching Glenn Close throw a stapler at someone’s head on the TV show ‘Damages,’ burning bridges” - The New York Times
