Lawyer Boy: A Case Study on Growing Up Book

After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parentsâ?? house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parentsâ?? food, sitting on his parentsâ?? couch, and watching The Price is Right. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties.Rickâ??s father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasnâ??t going to get a job, so he went to law school instead.This is the story of Rickâ??s journey from childhood to lawyerhood.In Lawyer Boy, Rick uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny itâ??s criminal.Read More