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He talks to a lawyer who tells him how he would handle it, sort of.
Mark and Todd decide to get clients at the courthouse, and pretend to be lawyers.
Now, none of this makes any sense. You have to understand, they were only a few months from graduation. All they had to do was to stay in law school for a few more months, and they wouldn't have to pretend to be lawyers. They could be real lawyers!
Mark and Todd justify their decision by saying that if they stayed in school that they could never pay off their debt. So they have to assume new identities. And yet, for many, many pages in the book, they keep corresponding with their loan officers under their real names, as if they have an intention to pay off their debt. Why bother doing that if they are shedding their real identities? This is never explained, and yet we are forced to read pages and pages of emails back and forth to and from their loan officers as they attempt to stall repayment of their loans.
Click here to see the rest of this reviewTo be blunt, the main premise of the story, that they are too crushed under debt to get jobs under their real names, makes no sense. They were only a few months from graduation! Instead, they decided to undertake a criminal activity and pretend to be lawyers... rather than wait a few months and become real lawyers. This entire book makes no sense.
Mark and Todd go to the courthouse and start offering to represent people with DUI's. They get Zola to join them, and she goes to hospitals to try to find injured people to represent in lawsuits. She never gets a single client. Mark and Todd get a few clients, and make a total of $50,000 or so.
So what's the point of this entire criminal endeavor? To make $50,000? They could have done that in a real job, not even a law job. They didn't have to go into a life of crime for $50,000. And yet that is what much of the book is spent doing.
Mark bones a prosecutor named Hadley Caviness (Caviness, heh he). Then Todd bones her. She's a real slut. She says she's trying to sleep with as many men as possible. This is what passes for romance and relationships in this awful book.
Mark gets what looks like a lucrative medical malpractice case. It involves a baby who died during birth due to the negligence of the hospital. The father, Ramon, hires Mark. But Mark doesn't example the details of the case closely. It turned out that the statute of limitations prevented a lawsuit unless Mark filed for it immediately. Unaware of this, Mark didn't file the lawsuit in time, and he lost the ability to file. As a result, Mark committed malpractice, and if Ramon finds out, he will be very upset, and will sue Mark.
There are more pages and pages of emails with their loan officers about their debt. Since they have assumed new identities, I don't know why they keep going on and on about it.
Mark admits to several different lawyers that he's not a real lawyer. To no surprise, they report him to the local bar association. Mark and Todd foolishly gave the Rooster Bar as the address of his law firm, and that's really where they meets clients and even live (they live upstairs). Why did they give their real address? Nothing about this book makes any sense.
There are more pages and pages of emails with their loan officers about their debt.
