This is the first book of sixteen (sixteen!) in a series of story collections about and narrated by an average lawyer who takes (mostly defense) cases for the indigent and needy (not because he’s so gracious, but because of the payment guarantees of legal aid). He mostly does all right by his clients, but sometimes doesn’t. The setup is that this is narrated as if a memoir by an aging, but not exactly elderly lead attorney who works in the local courts and is well-known […]