Bad Law is about Big Law. Meaning the largest American law firms that serve America's largest corporations. And, like GM and Chrysler, some of those Big Law firms have now hit a financial wall, with many of them filing for bankruptcy. Bad Law chronicles the story of one such Big Law firm, Broward LLP, a Big Law firm with its roots going back to California's Gold Rush days. Caught up by the euphoria of the dot.com boom and then killed off by the dot.com bust, the Broward law firm was a harbinger of things to come for many other Big Law corporate law firms after the Panic of 2008 and the onset of the present Great Recession. Bad Law is also about the personal lives and flaws of those who run Big Law firms. Bad Law -like Thackery's Vanity Fair and Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities before it-shows how the hubris of the elite sometimes leads to their defeat. The 99% will read and enjoy Bad Law , as may those among the 1% who continue to hope they will escape falling back into the 99%. Bad Law 'occupies' Big Law. "Wonderful book. I tried to persuade my wife, Kim, that some of the Bad Law stories were fictional, but she didn't believe me," says attorney Richard Plumridge, Esq., former senior partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP. "Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. But they can also make good novels, and [William McGrane] has done so with a gripping tale of the seamy side of law practice; replete with ethical crises and missteps; heartless firm politics; and the brutal, fragi