Word: stracher
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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Lies: Beyond the billing-sheet dishonesty, the lying in Double Billing occurs among the lawyers who actually convince themselves that they are satisfied with their lives. Stracher's strength here is in his description of his attempts to simply like his job and the disillusionment that finally compels him to abandon corporate law all together...
...Stracher's few mentions of sex in Double Billing go only so far as to relate the unspoken rules of office conduct--whom an associate could and could not sleep with (anyone but the paralegals)--and a blandly uncontroversial dalliance between two colleagues. I could unearth greater scandal among postal workers...
...Stracher himself found no fulfillment in the hours of tedious research, lack of recognition for his effort and the background position he was forced to occupy while "I had friends who were in front of juries every day in the District Attorney's Office." He writes, "I did not want to practice law where form swallowed substance, where responsibility was bestowed upon associates in dribbles." So he left...
...professions ever reach the point of all work and no reward (and we're not just talking money, either). It is not the revelation of unknown aspects of lawerly existence that makes Double Billing a memorable and commendable piece, for its confessions are far from hair-curling; it is Stracher's courage to turn his back on a lifetime of money and material comfort...
Supposedly, there are four things you can do with a Harvard degree--law school, medical school, investment banking and management consulting. Stracher, however, embodies the hope of Harvard's writers, actors, dancers and artists: no, you don't have to chain yourself to a desk for 30 years and, yes, you can go where your heart beckons...