TRIGGER WARNING REVEALS THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE LAW AND LAWYERS
“I grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi, and decided to become a lawyer because I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor. That’s about all there was to it,” Brooks explains. “I went to law school at Duke, then returned to my home state, where I clerked for a federal judge and spent the next forty years in private practice in Jackson.”
Along the way, Brooks collected many stories. He told them over and over, and now he’s written them. Some of them—for example, the times when his ex-wife decided to give raisins to trick-or-treaters at Halloween and when his colleague tried to order pancakes at Waffle House—have nothing to do with the law. But Brooks likes the stories, and it’s his book, so you get what you get. Most of the stories are funny, but some are serious, and one is tragic. Brooks hopes they’re all entertaining.
