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Barman: Ping-Pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar
by Alex Wellen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (2004-08-24)
ISBN: 1400048923
EAN: 9781400048922
Dewy Decimal #: 340
Paperback: 320 pages
Release Date: 2004-08-24
SKU: 07120095
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine or cover. Tanned of text and slight spotting on edges. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Alex Wellen is an excited, ambitious, and overwhelmed twenty-something law student trying to integrate into one of the most powerful and promise-filled cities in the world—New York. As he moves from graduating student to licensed lawyer—the second most important nine months he ever spent “gestating”—Alex fantasizes about the glitzy, high-powered lifestyle of a Manhattan attorney. He imagines hobnobbing with the elite, eating at the best restaurants, and being a guest at the most coveted social events—but in this city of overachievers, he is reminded every step of the way that he did not go to Harvard. Can he overcome the profession’s snobbery by wearing overpriced ties from Barneys, seat-filling at the VH1 fashion awards, cavorting with B-list celebrities, and throwing TriBeCa loft parties?
Is it enough for him to look and play the part?
Along the way, we meet his fellow sufferers in the dread-inducing bar exam cram courses, his girlfriends and roommate, the law firm recruiters interested in hiring him (and those who aren’t), and the new associates who work with him at a high-profile law firm, some of whom, the odds are, won’t pass the bar.
Savvy and entertaining, Wellen’s story is The Paper Chase meets Sex and the City—a career memoir for anyone who has discovered his or her life’s goal, yet must overcome tremendous obstacles to attain it.
Barman is an honest, revealing, and hilarious portrait of a lawyer as a young man.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Customer Reviews
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Good to Skim
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-05-30
I was a little disappointed in this book, after having to skim through a lot of filler to find the good parts. To put it bluntly, Wellen is a nice guy who goes to a pretty good school and eventually passes the bar, but he is not successful portraying himself as entertaining, funny, glamorous, or particularly remarkable. Luckily, however, Barman contains some good information. Wellen is clear and descriptive about how he got a job in a great law firm, what he did to study for the bar, and what it was like working at a law firm while he waited for his test results. Along the way, he also demonstrates a method of interpreting legalese. If you are a prospective law student, this is a good book to check out from the library or read at the bookstore.
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Very Fun Read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-09
I started this book at 12:30 AM. I finished it at 6 AM. I NEVER do that. Ever. If you're looking to get a glimpse of law school life, etc. this isn't the really the book for it. But if you want to read a great law-related book, definitely pick this up.
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Could not put it down!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-08-15
Alex Wellen has captured all the madness, urgency and utter panic that envelops the life and times of anyone who is taking the bar. A great storyteller, Alex makes this an interesting, funny, and extremely engaging read. I could not put it down! I cannot remember a book that was this entertaining and enjoyable to me. For anyone who has ever been there, and more importantly, for anyone who never has, this is a great story you don't want to miss!
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Fast Read
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-09
A friend recomended this so I bought it. I loved it! Really intersting and funny. I appreciated the unpolished perspective on a life I am pursuing.
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Fun and Funny
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-24
Alex Wellen is a very funny fellow. I liked "Barman" because Alex tells his story in an engagingly self-deprecating way, yet his feel-it-now style reveals the dehumanizing intellectual hazing process of trying to pass the bar. I look forward to reading more of this gifted storyteller's work.
John DeDakis
Author, FAST TRACK
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