The newest John Grisham legal thriller to target the big screen, The Associate, will now star none other than Shia LaBeouf, or as some of us like to call him, "The Beef". 

The story follows a Yale Law School student who is manipulated into working for a prestigious law firm and then given insider information about a pending billion dollar lawsuit.The novel is the first legal thriller for Grisham since 2005's The Broker.

The Beef is already slated for the Transformers sequel, Rise of the Fallen and was recently seen in Eagle Eye and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.