Life in the Fast Lane

This is about a tax law firm, Bendini, Lambert & Locke and a fresh new law student named Mitch McDeere.  The law firm was located in Memphis and relatively small compared to the law firms in the larger cities.  It was very successful and was willing to scout out and pay top dollar for the perfect new law associate.  Mitch McDeere was their number one change because Mitch was one of the top in his graduating class, he played starting quarterback, he was happily married to Abby, a kindergarten teacher at a private school. And didn’t smoke, drink much, or do drugs.  He was also in debt from school loans and was hungry for money.  Mitch had offers from other law firms, Bendini, Lambert & Locke offered him the highest salary, and BMW, and a low interest rate house loan.  While getting to know the partners and their wives, Mitch and Abby ran into some odd things like being told the firm really pushed having kids and they insisted you own a luxurious home and they wanted everyone to look and act rich.  It was all about money and loyalty.  Nobody left the firm until they retired.  They also only hired unattractive secretaries so the men wouldn’t be tempted to cheat on their wives.  There seemed to be a lot of secret and forbidden places within the firm, like the office of DeVasher that had a small metal door and a camera over it.  Mitch decided to sign with the firm and what would have been his first day at the office was instead attending the funeral because two associates at the firm had recently been killed in the Grand Cayman.  While scuba diving, a boat exploded and it was presume Joe Hodge and Marty Kozinski drown.  What Mitch and Abby didn’t know was that their house was bugged and they were being followed constantly.  Avery Tolar was assigned Mitch’s mentor and the most important thing they needed to do was get all the help Mitch needed to past the bar exam.  Mitch’s first assignment was to review the Sonny Capps case who was being charged with not paying taxes.  In the meantime, it becomes apparent Kozinski and Hodge were ordered to be killed by some mafia type group that the head firm partners were involved with because they were going to meet with the FBI about something illegal going on.  Because of this, everyone’s phones had to be bugged.