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Angelica Perez's Reviews > Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder
Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder
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This is the realest book about law and the practice of law I have ever read. This book really took away all the glamour of practicing the law that I thought was true before I started working in law firms. Also, Dorn highlighted how broken the system is. Like she did, I am going into law school trying to help people and fix this system. Many of the things she revealed in this book I have discovered through experience, so it wasn’t shocking. This book is relatable, charming, and important work.
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Reading Progress
March 31, 2022
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March 31, 2022
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to-read
January 8, 2023
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Started Reading
January 9, 2023
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10.94%
"“The official legal standard is innocent until proven guilty, but that was not how it really worked.�"
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28
January 9, 2023
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11.72%
"“The reason a lot of marginalized groups end up in jail, beyond being unfairly targeted by police officers, is because they don’t know their rights during illegal searches.�
EXACTLY why I want to go to law school—to change this broken system."
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EXACTLY why I want to go to law school—to change this broken system."
January 9, 2023
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36.33%
"“People of color have accounted for a disproportionate 43 percent of total executions since 1976 and compose 55 percent of those currently awaiting execution.�"
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93
January 9, 2023
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46.48%
"“As a woman, I’d been taught, my goal was to be as small as possible. To be invisible. Go make myself disappear.�"
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119
January 9, 2023
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64.45%
"“The poor and desperate take the fall while the rich go free, unscathed.�"
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165
January 9, 2023
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80.47%
"“The criminal justice system tends to be a vehicle to enforce social stratification. We put poor people and people of color and mentally ill people in front of a jury and call them eggs without acknowledging that we failed to give them adequate education and social services and the tools they needed to survive.�"
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206
January 9, 2023
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80.86%
"“The law is designed to protect the state, not the people who are victimized by the state.�"
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207
January 9, 2023
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82.81%
"“The United States is among the most punitive nations in the world.�
“Scholars show that rape convictions disproportionately target Black men and leave Black women without redress.�"
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212
“Scholars show that rape convictions disproportionately target Black men and leave Black women without redress.�"
January 9, 2023
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83.2%
"“Women are told our pussies should be ‘tight,� but the only reason a vagina is tight is because the woman is scared—our vaginal canals contract with fear and this turns men on.�"
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213
January 9, 2023
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Finished Reading
