"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place." *
"But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . . "
So, I used the summary from Goodreads --- and I added an asterisk at the first sentence because . . . while Zola definitely gives the impression that she is going to law school to make the world a better place, Mark and Todd come off as two guys who thought it would be cool, but they don't have much of a plan. What they do have in common is the aforementioned crushing debt of law school that they need to start paying back right after graduation, even though none of them have jobs. They also don't have good job prospects because their law school is a for-profit school that will accept anyone (even if they are poor students).
Their "way out" is to basically ambulance-chase and practice some law without a license. What could go wrong? Actually, a lot. By the end of the book, the three of them have redeemed themselves but the book's ending is a little too clean for reality. However, I don't mind that --- Grisham writes legal thrillers. Without a little thrill, it wouldn't be Grisham.
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