An Almost Life - Tapa dura

New York personal-injury lawyer Mike Samuels faces the biggest case of his career when he takes on a topless dancer's suit against the surgeon who botched her breast implants, who is ably defended by the slick Harry LeCount.

KEVIN MEDNICK was born in 1953 and grew up in Woodridge, NY, in the Catskill Mountains summer resort area. From there he dragged himself even further north to Binghamton University, from which he graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in History and no clue as to what to do next. This state of mind continued for the next three years, during which he completed law school at the University of Southern California, having passed the time mainly by asking the question, “What was I thinking?” three or four times every minute. Despite this, his legal career includes stints as an Assistant District Attorney, House Counsel for an insurance company, associate counsel for large personal injury defense firm, law clerk for a County Court Judge, and, finally, partnership in the firm of Bendall and Mednick, which handles PI and medical malpractice cases for plaintiffs. He has three children and lives and works near Albany, NY.