Hello everyone!
I'm currently attending law school. Sometimes it feel like I'm enveloped in a world of people who watch Suits and primarily care about money and stocks. Sometimes i second guess if I'm doing the right thing, and that my motivation and life goals dont match those of my fellow students.
Lawyers are often portriad as incredibly clever and savvy often outsmarting the opponent. I recently read "To Kill A Mockingbird" and it really hit. Probably not in the way it does to most people. But to see a lawyer portrayed as wanting to do good and help others selflessly because it's right. I'm now looking for other books like that with a morally good lawyer.
by Rude-Acanthisitta287
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Maybe A Walk Across the Sun? Been a while since I’ve read it, but it’s about two young girls who are sold into sex trafficking, and a lawyer on sabbatical who decides to track down the sex trafficking ring. Very good book.
It’s non-fiction but *Just Mercy* by Bryan Stevenson would fit the bill.
I was initially stumped by this one, and just remembered: “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout. You don’t have to have read anything else by Strout, though she has written a number of novels set in this same region of Maine circling the same interconnected set of characters. This one focuses, in large part, on Bob Burgess, a local defense attorney who is representing a man accused of murder. The legal part of the novel is in some ways incidental to everything else, but Bob’s character — a good but sometimes lonely man who wants to do write by his client and his community — really shines through.
Presumed Innocent has a mix of lawyers, but especially Sandy Stern comes through as an admirable lawyers .