Hello I'm Joan and this book is called Servants of the Damned by David Enrich. Back in the day law firms used to often be quite small places that were very concerned with professional service delivery and not so much with grubby commercialism but over the years that’s changed a lot and many law firms have become bigger and bigger. The author of this book has used one such firm as an exemplar of the way in which the legal industry has changed. They’re called Jones Day they were founded in Cleveland Ohio in 1893 and eventually they became the first American law firm to go national and then to go global. But on the way their moral compass seems to have shifted somewhat as they've had an ever increasing need to attract bigger and bigger revenues to fund all of the lawyers and the partners that they have within their ranks. So they’ve worked with some pretty questionable outfits with big tobacco and with opioid selling businesses with the Catholic Church over the sex abuse scandal with oligarchs with governments all sorts of places many of which you might consider a bit of a slippery slope and then along came Donald Trump. They earned millions and millions under Trump's tenure as President of the States and reading this book you get to see the shadowy stuff that goes on in the background that most of us are completely oblivious to. But you watch these men and I have to say it's all men bending the law and everything around them to shape the force of their will and it's really quite scary.

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