Gray Mountain review 2015.7.25
I’ve finished the novel “Gray Mountain” and felt I need to write something as a mark or as a memory for later review.
The heroine named “Samantha” used to be a very promising lawyer in a big law company in NY. She has graduate from a celebrated law college and joined the firm 3 years ago. But for the 2008 financial crisis, she would found a very rewarding career path in the law firm. She got laid off from the firm and the firm promised her a temporary cancel of the career for 1 year. If she could promise to join for some unpaid law program for 1 year, the firm would keep her position and also keep her pension program.
After some thoughtful moment she decide to go to a mountainous place in west America.
Samantha’s parents are both lawyers, who were typical middle class Americans. Her mother worked for US government as public law officers, and her father was a litigation lawyer. Samantha received very good education and also took interest in law.
The place she went to was a different world from NY Manhattan area. People there were poor peasants, with very low income and very limited source to industrious convenience. People cared most about property and because the district was abundant in coal resources, very big coal companies were attracted there to dig treasure from the place.
The mining method was called strip mining, very cruel and very hazardous to environment, even dangerous. Air polluted , land destroyed, and a large number of mountainous inhabitants lived miserable under the every deteriorating environment.
Samantha joined a local law clinic and support professional service to local people without charge. Including dealing with injuries to civilians, with law suits against big coal firms.
Battle against big law firms were not simple at all. They would use their money to set obstacles to law suits, to pay for thugs to bother you, and even do actions against the federal laws but to pay compensations to civilians. A fearless lawyer in the clinic got murdered by a coal company, but the battle seems to never end.
At last Samantha got some breakthrough in the law suit against the coal company, and she also decided to stay in the mountainous area to go on her career as helping local civilians got dignity in law suits. She found it quite rewarding as a litigation lawyer.
The heroine named “Samantha” used to be a very promising lawyer in a big law company in NY. She has graduate from a celebrated law college and joined the firm 3 years ago. But for the 2008 financial crisis, she would found a very rewarding career path in the law firm. She got laid off from the firm and the firm promised her a temporary cancel of the career for 1 year. If she could promise to join for some unpaid law program for 1 year, the firm would keep her position and also keep her pension program.
After some thoughtful moment she decide to go to a mountainous place in west America.
Samantha’s parents are both lawyers, who were typical middle class Americans. Her mother worked for US government as public law officers, and her father was a litigation lawyer. Samantha received very good education and also took interest in law.
The place she went to was a different world from NY Manhattan area. People there were poor peasants, with very low income and very limited source to industrious convenience. People cared most about property and because the district was abundant in coal resources, very big coal companies were attracted there to dig treasure from the place.
The mining method was called strip mining, very cruel and very hazardous to environment, even dangerous. Air polluted , land destroyed, and a large number of mountainous inhabitants lived miserable under the every deteriorating environment.
Samantha joined a local law clinic and support professional service to local people without charge. Including dealing with injuries to civilians, with law suits against big coal firms.
Battle against big law firms were not simple at all. They would use their money to set obstacles to law suits, to pay for thugs to bother you, and even do actions against the federal laws but to pay compensations to civilians. A fearless lawyer in the clinic got murdered by a coal company, but the battle seems to never end.
At last Samantha got some breakthrough in the law suit against the coal company, and she also decided to stay in the mountainous area to go on her career as helping local civilians got dignity in law suits. She found it quite rewarding as a litigation lawyer.
