Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law

The literary lawyer is a designation many practitioners covet but few attain; and for many writers, the law has been an insidious passion, producing work as diverse as Melville's Billy Budd and Kafka's The Trial. Now comes a superb, one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary short stories about lawyers and the law--from corporate to courtroom and beyond--by Atwood, Wolfe, Shaw and others.