From Publishers Weekly
First time author Kimes is entertaining and funny in recounting her three years at one of the country’s premier law schools. A smart young woman with a good, but not always engaged, sense of perspective, Kimes jumps from the University of Wisconsin to Columbia Law School on the wings of a spectacular showing on the LSATs. Once there, she faces the predictable sadistic professor, hypercompetitive fellow students and, of course, rampant elitism. Kimes is happy to treat with an equal measure of humor the highly stylized courting dance between summer law clerks and mega law firms, as well as the foreboding horrors of the bar exam. Though some stories seem hyperbolic and re-created conversations can be suspiciously pat, Kimes captures with accuracy the gestalt of the law school experience. Kimes did get a job at what she calls “Lavish Law Firm. ” But she eventually left to join the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which may be her final comment on the world of b
More Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student from Amazon.com »
