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    Supreme Ambitions: A Novel

    By David Lat

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    Supreme Ambitions details the rise of Audrey Coyne, a recent Yale Law School graduate who dreams of clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court someday. Audrey moves to California to clerk for Judge Christina Wong Stinson, a highly regarded appeals-court judge who is Audrey’s ticket to a Supreme Court clerkship. While working for the powerful and driven Judge Stinson, Audrey discovers that high ambitions come with a high price. Toss in some headline-making cases, a little romance, and a pesky judicial gossip blog, and you have a legal novel with the inside scoop you’d expect from the founder of Above the Law, one of the nation’s most widely read and influential legal websites.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmerican Bar Association
    Release dateDec 7, 2014
    ISBN9781627220477
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    Supreme Ambitions: A Novel
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    David Lat

    David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law, an awardwinning legal website that reaches more than 1 million unique visitors a month. Prior to starting Above the Law in the summer of 2006, David founded Underneath Their Robes, a blog about federal judges. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, New York magazine, Washingtonian magazine, and the New York Observer. Before entering the journalism world, David worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in New York; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He lives in New York City. He is on Twitter: @DavidLat.

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    • 3/5
      I have a legal background so I found this book to be mildly entertaining. It was OK, nothing spectacular.
    • 4/5
      Quick read -- started and finished on a single flight. There are some portions that are a bit clunky; although the most likely readers of this book are likely lawyers and law students, Lat clearly wants this to be able to appeal to a broader audience. Unfortunately, the parts where he over-explains legal concepts in order to bring those people on board are also the least realistic and most boring, especially when they are shoehorned into dialogue.
      On the whole, however, I think it's a great and entertaining exploration of (1) what it means to clerk; (2) the ambitious overachieving prestige-seeking that you really do encounter at T14 law schools and in federal courts; and (3) my personal soapbox, the problems/tensions that arise from political pressures on judges.
      The plot itself is better than I thought it would be; the stakes aren't as high as in your average Grisham novel (the immigration case could have upped the stakes, but was really used more to highlight the judge's politics than to emphasize real-world consequences of judicial decisions).
      Well worth a read and a great way to pass a few hours.