The official summary of the series follows the story of Rudy Baylor, a recent law school graduate, who finds himself in a legal battle with the seasoned lawyer Leo Drummond and his former law school sweetheart. Rudy, along with his boss and a scruffy paralegal, delves into two intertwining conspiracies surrounding the untimely death of a client's son.
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“The Rainmaker’s” first adaptation was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The successful 1997 film starred Matt Damon as Rudy. Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Virginia Madsen and Teresa Wright were all cast members as well.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of The Rainmaker by John Grisham:
In The Rainmaker, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys -- and powerful industries -- in America.
Source: Variety