The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker, by John Grisham, is a story about a man, Rudy Baylor, who just became a lawyer and finds himself questioning his values while representing a low-class family in a case about an insurance scam against one of the best law firms in the country. The concept of justice in The Rainmaker is fair handling and due reward or treatment. Rudy Baylor is a law student in his final semester of law school, hoping to someday become a practicing lawyer. Before he even takes his bar exam he gets a job at a low level law firm. While in school, he gives free legal advice to the elderly. His clients are diverse. His first client is a woman, Miss Birdie Birdsong, who is worth twenty million dollars. She wants Rudy to construct a will for her. She does not want her heirs to have any money because they are all mean. One of them has a wife whom Miss Birdie is sure will take all the money. The others are just down right mean to Miss Birdie. . . .
Next, his new firm lets him go in hopes of stealing the insurance scam case. While visiting Miss Birdsong at her house to discuss her will, Rudy finds a small cottage behind her house. Rudy has many problems to deal with. First, he was evicted from his house because he is broke. The two, Rudy and Deck, know Bruiser is going to eventually go down for one of the many crimes he committed. Miss Birdsong allows him to stay in the cottage as long as he helps around the house. While working with Bruiser, Rudy meets Deck Shiffler. While working on the insurance case in the hospital Rudy meets Kelly Riker. The due reward for Great Benefit was they lost the case and went bankrupt. They did not handle families fairly and eventually had to pay the piper. During the Black case, Donny Rae dies before the trial even begins. Another problem is Rudy is fired from his law firm before his first day on the job due to new management. Although Rudy handled many cases as a struggling, last year law student, the Black case was his most prominent.
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