An Almost Life - Hardcover

KEVIN MEDNICK grew up in the Catskill Mountains resort town of Woodridge, NY. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and the University of Southern California law school. His legal career includes stints as an Assistant District Attorney, house counsel for an insurance company, associate counsel for a large personal injury defense firm, and law clerk for a County Court Judge. He is currently a partner in the law firm of Bendall and Mednick, which handles personal injury and medical malpractice cases for plaintiffs. He has three children and lives and works near Albany, NY.

A New York trial lawyer who specializes in personal-injury litigation narrates attorney Mednick's fast-paced, entertaining debut novel. Several surprise twists provide a snazzy climax. No real threat to Turow or Grisham, but not bad, not bad at all. --Kirkus

...Despite Medrick s narrative skill in keeping readers curious about the outcome of Evelyn s case, which will be tried in a small town in upstate NY, the book s most compelling and incisively funny - sections have to do with Mike s commentary and asides on lawyers, judges, justice and contemporary culture, including the inanity of golf, the psychology of the working-class in rural America, the pathetic comedy of small-claims night court, and the fear of jurors who want to run home and barricade their doors and remove themselves from a world that s too complicated, too confusing and too dangerous. Mednick also has a sensitive feel for what s left of America after highways and malls. And he can put his own stamp on familiar schtick, such as a hilarious understated telephone exchange between Mike and his mother... --The Independent --The Independent --The Independent