Lawyers Gone Bad

"The lawyer was crying..." So starts "Lawyers Gone Bad," an intense novel about Dean Alessi, deputy director of the Lawyer Discipline Office (LDO) in upstate NY, who has worked tirelessly the past sixteen years protecting clients from lawyers gone bad - that is, lawyers who do bad things that violate the legal profession's code of ethics. After being passed over as head of the LDO due to politics, Dean ignores the order of his overbearing new boss, Brad Gunther, and continues investigating the County District Attorney for the ultimate ethical wrong - murder. Teaming up with the LDO's recently retired Chief Investigator, the irascible and tough Stu Foley, he keeps digging to find out the truth. After a surprising series of twists and turns, their worst fears may be realized - the DA may have indeed gone bad. Real bad. But this discovery leads to the very real possibility of bad things happening to them.Novelist Vince Scarsella draws on his real life experiences of over 18 years as head of the Eighth Judicial District Grievance Committee in Buffalo, New York to craft a gripping, suspenseful novel about lawyers gone bad. But the story is more than a crime novel. It concerns friendship, loss, unrequited love, and ultimately, justice. It also seeks to answer the question, does what goes around, come around?