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A Fictional Paralegal Faces Jail Time

By Lynne DeVenny

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Whoa. There's a new fictional paralegal in town, and she seems intent on throwing everything we've ever been taught about ethics out the window.

In the interest of full disclosure here, I haven't read South Carolina native Danny Easterling's new novel, simply titled The Paralegal (PublishAmerica, 2010).

In no small part because I'm kind of afraid to. I'm still reeling from the author's description of the plot. Here's an excerpt:

Paula Cooper, a paralegal from Georgetown, SC, gets in way over her head while working for a crooked attorney, J. Thomas Denby, who has a way of winning most all of his cases. She is asked by her boss to participate in a plot to blackmail a federal judge for a huge bonus. Reluctantly Paula, the single mother of two teenage daughters, attends Judge Parks' annual Christmas party in Charleston, SC where she is to entice him to his bedroom for an embrace. A private investigator hidden outside waits to capture a photo, but before she can complete her mission things go terribly wrong.
I caught myself wailing, "No, Paula, NO!"

I may have to read it, if only to answer the question, "How big was that bonus?"

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).

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