The Litigators

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.

And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed, any job—even one with Finley & Figg—looks okay to him.

With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.

A little online research confirms Wally’s suspicions—a huge plaintiffs’ firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to enter a courtroom!

It almost seems too good to be true.

And it is.

©2011 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2011 Random House

A Wonderful Listen

This book was fun to listen to. The narrator's ability to portray all the characters gave you the ability to "see" each one. This story made you laugh, made you sad and gave you the ability to feel each character feelings also. By far one of, if not the best audio books I have purchased. This book is better listened to than read.

love this book, listen to over and over

loved the narrator, the story, just a wonderful story. something for everyone. appreciated the tone and descriptions

fun, with heart and just enough plot depth

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

yes. kept me wanting to know...are they EVER going to address that? of course, they did. but i liked wanting to know more....

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

for the most part, yes.

If you're on a plane and this is your only book...

Had been a long time since I read a Grisham book. I have read, re-read and thoroughly enjoyed many of his older works. While still enjoyable I found this book to be serviceable and pedestrian at best. There were no surprises, no twists and plot turns. Even in terms of a courtroom procedural this book lacked any punch. It was like reading the (PG) version of a once great (R) writer. As if someone has turned the TV color setting from 8 down to 3. It's not unpleasant but lacks a lot.

I almost gave up on this early in the piece after too many far fetched contrivance's were used to setup the scenarios for the remaining three quarters of the book. It was only the fact I was on a plane and had no other books loaded on my iPhone (lesson learnt there) that I stuck it out and gave the fanciful story setup a free-pass. If you can do that too then this book will happily fill eleven hours of your life with no effort required on your part.

In the end I would rather have spent my time reading The Partner again.

enjoyable but predictable

Not one of the best stories. ok. a little in the full side compared to other works.

interesting turn of events

Loved it. Funny characters. interesting story everything that could go wrong did but worked out in the end.

Riveting

Hilarious dramatic and riveting!!!! I listened to it almost entirely straight through!!! You will not regret listening to The Litigators.

Enjoyed it.

Entertaining and somewhat familiar. I know a few Attorney’s like the ones in the book.

laughin

keep me going.story teller had me smiling often,ending had me interested great listen,hopefully will never have to pick a lawyer

The Lidigators

It was a great story! Love the narrator! And every time I would hear Wally’s name I pictured Danny DeVito! He would perfect to cast him in a movie!