Book Review Was That a Tax Lawyer Who Just Flew Over? from Outside the Offices of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers. Arnold B. Kanter. Catbird Press. 1996. 223 Pp. $13.95 (paper)
| Pages | 231 |
| Citation | Vol. 71 Pg. 231 |
| Publication year | 2021 |
71 CBJ 231. BOOK REVIEW WAS THAT A TAX LAWYER WHO JUST FLEW OVER? From Outside the Offices of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers. Arnold B. Kanter. Catbird Press. 1996. 223 pp. $13.95 (paper)
Written by the author of the Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement and two other collections of spoofs directed at lawyers in private practice, this little assortment of quirky views of lawyers reflects the special humor of a Chicago attorney turned law firm consultant and now legal caricaturist. While his earlier efforts have focused on the mythical law firm of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers from within, this latest effort looks at the firm and its lawyers through the eyes-mostly cynical-of those, largely nonlawyers, who view the firm from outside. Readers who have encountered the Handbook might regard that as a more entertaining collection of anecdotes than this fourth effort (after all, how long can humor about lawyers be sustained?). However, most lawyers will find this to be a chuckle-filled read.
To repeat, the focus continues to be the Fairweather firm and its interesting collection of characters ranging down (way down) the letterhead from senior partner Stanley J. Fairweather to the most junior associate of the firm, Sharon Kelcher, described to us through the voice of her doting mother, who collects the firm's cards in fistfuls and hands them out to everyone she meets. (This is not pleasing to Sharon in the Corporate Department, who receives phone calls as frequently as Ann Landers from a host of people with personal problems).
To give a flavor for the spectrum of outsiders through whom the reader sees the firm, we have:
- The CPA, who could have gone to law school...
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