Unbillable hours: A true Store, by Ian Graham, New York. Kaplan publishing. 2010. 320 Pages. Reviewed by Armen Tchapanian.
Ian Graham was a Law Associate who worked at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, whom saved the rest of Mario Rocha’s life, and freed him from the murder of which he had no part in. In the book “ Unbillable hours “, written by Ian Graham himself, Graham exposed the story of Mario Rocha—a man falsely accused for murder. Rocha had been put behind bars for a murder, which he did not commit. After Graham graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 2001, he joined Latham & Watkins Law Firm and worked there for nearly 5 years from 2001-2006. Throughout his career at the firm as a law associate, the work overload being passed down from upper associates was starting to take toll on him, regardless of his six figure income. The work overload he would receive from upper associates started to become very boring and exhausting and would never stop pouring in from above. Graham questioned himself if this is really why he chose to become a lawyer. During the times which he was trying to manage the long hours at the firm—and the very time consuming chores he had to get done—is when a nun by the name of Sister Janet came into the building and placed two boxes in his office. These were the case files regarding Mario Rocha and were the start of which changed …show more content…
A part that is truly indispensible is in the beginning of the book when Graham is on his way to visit Rocha in Prison; the whole scenario had me hooked onto the book right from the beginning. It was a very tense chapter to read. One of the shortcomings within the book I noticed was the fact on how the chapters seem scattered around, by switching around from one thing to another. The previous chapter does not continue onto the following chapter and a new topic is
Ian Graham was a Law Associate who worked at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, whom saved the rest of Mario Rocha’s life, and freed him from the murder of which he had no part in. In the book “ Unbillable hours “, written by Ian Graham himself, Graham exposed the story of Mario Rocha—a man falsely accused for murder. Rocha had been put behind bars for a murder, which he did not commit. After Graham graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 2001, he joined Latham & Watkins Law Firm and worked there for nearly 5 years from 2001-2006. Throughout his career at the firm as a law associate, the work overload being passed down from upper associates was starting to take toll on him, regardless of his six figure income. The work overload he would receive from upper associates started to become very boring and exhausting and would never stop pouring in from above. Graham questioned himself if this is really why he chose to become a lawyer. During the times which he was trying to manage the long hours at the firm—and the very time consuming chores he had to get done—is when a nun by the name of Sister Janet came into the building and placed two boxes in his office. These were the case files regarding Mario Rocha and were the start of which changed …show more content…
A part that is truly indispensible is in the beginning of the book when Graham is on his way to visit Rocha in Prison; the whole scenario had me hooked onto the book right from the beginning. It was a very tense chapter to read. One of the shortcomings within the book I noticed was the fact on how the chapters seem scattered around, by switching around from one thing to another. The previous chapter does not continue onto the following chapter and a new topic is