A Summer Read with Heart and Soul: UNBILLABLE HOURS by Ian Graham
If you are looking for a little inspiration and fresh perspective, pick up our friend, Ian Graham’s, UNBILLABLE HOURS, which hit bookstores and Amazon May 4th, but his nationwide book tour is just now underway. The story is gripping, dramatic and heart wrenching and even more compelling because it is true. Ian recounts his experience with a humble honestly and compassionate awareness from which we could all learn.
UNBILLABLE HOURS: A True Story
"The story—part memoir, part hard-hitting expose—of a first-year law associate negotiating the arduous path through a system designed to break those who enter it before it makes them.
Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good life for Ian Graham. But the harsh reality of life as an associate quickly became evident. The work was grueling and boring, the days were impossibly long, and Graham’s main goal was to rack up billable hours. But when he took an unpaid pro bono case to escape the drudgery, Graham found the meaning in his work that he’d been looking for. As he worked to free Mario Rocha, a gifted young Latino who had been wrongly convicted at 16 and sentenced to life without parole, the shocking contrast between the quest for money and power and Mario’s desperate struggle for freedom led Graham to look long and hard at his future as a corporate lawyer.
Clear-eyed and moving, written with the drama and speed of a John Grisham novel and the personal appeal of Scott Turow’s account of his law school years, Unbillable Hours is an arresting personal story with implications for all of us."
Catch Ian in action and get your own personally signed copy of UNBILLABLE HOURS. Book tour details below:
PORTLAND: Monday, May 10th – 7:00pm
POWELL'S CEDAR HILLS CROSSING
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd
Beaverton, OR
LOS ANGELES: Friday, May 14th – 7:00pm
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 91101
WASHINGTON DC: Wednesday, May 19th – 6:30pm
Barnes & Nobeles
555 12th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
NEW YORK: TBD
SAN FRANCISCO: Tuesday, May 25th – 6:00pm
Book Passage Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building #42
San Francisco, CA 94111
Wednesday, May 26th – 6:00pm
Books INC
601 Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94102