Author: D. Kincaid
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999852712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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"HARRY CAIN is indomitable -- the Litigator to the Rich and Infamous who talks faster that a speeding bullet and conquers Hollywood studios, the legal system, and almost Death itself in a single bound." --Mario Puzo Harry Cain is back. Los Angeles's legendary litigator, a.k.a. "The Sunset Bomber," he is Sam Spade with a Harvard degree, Perry Mason in an Armani suit. In a town where money and influence talk but a rousing performance screams, Harry Cain's outrageous, ingenious courtroom theatrics have made him the most successful lawyer in the business. Here is a novel of unrelenting suspense, complete with turns of plot and the double twist that is Harry Cain's trademark. With a client list right out of the headlines of Variety, Cain is best friend or fiercest foe to the most powerful people in Hollywood - and he's got the cases to prove it. Here is the Japanese wife who poisoned her multimillionaire husband - or did she? The world-famous director whose $40 million film has disappeared - or has it? The beautiful producer blackmailed by America's favorite TV star and bound for ruin - or is she? Harry Cain takes justice as far as it can go to defend his clients, and brings down the house every time. The continuing adventures of Harry Cain will shock the jaded, dazzle the sophisticated, and rivet everyone who roots for the good guy to win - whatever the cost. "Legal brinkmanship and cunning courtroom strategy...a tale that entertains." -Publishers Weekly
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1910974234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.
Author: Cameron Stracher
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688172229
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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By turns hilarious and horrifying, Double Billing is a clever and sobering expose of the legal profession. Writing with wit and wisdom, Cameron Stracher describes the grueling rite of passage of an associate at a major New York law firm. As Stracher describes, Harvard Law School may have taught him to think like a lawyer, but it was his experience as an associate that taught him to behave--or misbehave--like one. Double Billing is a biting glimpse into the world of corporate law from the perspective of the low man on the totem pole. In Double Billing, Cameron Stracher reveals a shocking nonfiction account of the ordeal of a young associate at a major Wall Street law firm. Fresh out of Harvard Law School, Stracher landed a coveted position at a high-powered corporate law firm and thus began his grueling years as an associate, a dreaded rite of passage for every young attorney. Only about five percent survive long enough to achieve the Holy Grail of partnership in the firm. As the author vividly describes, law school may teach you how to think like a lawyer, but it's being an associate that teaches you how to behave like one. Or misbehave. Stracher doesn't mince words about the duplicitous behavior and flagrant practices of many lawyers in his firm, which is one of the premier partnerships in America. In a stylish and witty manner that has earned him comparison to an early Philip Roth, Stracher does for the legal profession what Michael Lewis's Liars' Poker did for the financial industry. The result is a tell-all glimpse into the cutthroat world of corporate law from the perspective of the low man on the totem pole. In Double Billing, Cameron Stracher reveals a shocking nonfiction account of the ordeal of a young associate at a major Wall Street law firm. Fresh out of Harvard Law School, Stracher landed a coveted position at a high-powered corporate law firm and thus began his grueling years as an associate, a dreaded rite of passage for every young attorney. Only about five percent survive long enough to achieve the Holy Grail of partnership in the firm. As the author vividly describes, law school may teach you how to think like a lawyer, but it's being an associate that teaches you how to behave like one. Or misbehave. Stracher doesn't mince words about the duplicitous behavior and flagrant practices of many lawyers in his firm, which is one of the premier partnerships in America. In a stylish and witty manner that has earned him comparison to an early Philip Roth, Stracher does for the legal profession what Michael Lewis's Liars' Poker did for the financial industry. The result is a tell-all glimpse into the cutthroat world of corporate law from the perspective of the low man on the totem pole.
Author: Peter Langrock
Publisher: Paul S Eriksson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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When you finish reading this fascinating collection of true stories, you will wish you had become a 'country lawyer'. The author, a happy practitioner for some 39 years in Vermont, has done it all! He has been a prosecutor, a defender of persons charged with crimes, and is a highly respected lawyer who spends eighty percent of his time in litigation.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Joseph G. Allegretti
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809136513
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Defines the crisis of the legal profession as a spiritual one rather than an ethical one, and urges lawyers to rethink their careers in terms of a vocation in the context of legal practice.
Author: George Critchlow
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725278383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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It is true that some people are very damaged. It is not true that they are all unsalvageable. The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, religion, race, the purpose of punishment, and a criminal justice system that requires harmless old men to die in prison. It is a true story about Michael Anderson, an aging African American man who grew up poor and abused on Chicago's south side and became a violent and predatory criminal. Anderson has now spent the last forty-three years in prison as a result of a 1978 crime spree that took place in southeastern Washington. The book describes his spiritual and moral transformation in prison and challenges society's assumption that he was an irredeemable monster. It also tells the story of the author's evolving relationship with Anderson that began in 1979 when Critchlow, a young white lawyer from a privileged background, was appointed to defend Anderson on twenty-two violent felony charges. For Anderson, this is a story about overcoming childhood trauma and learning how to empathize and love through faith and self-knowledge. For Critchlow, the story also raises questions about how we become who we are--about race, culture, and opportunity. Finally, the book is a revealing commentary on our criminal justice system's obsession with life sentences.
Author: David I. Kertzer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547344902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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This quintessential David-and-Goliath saga tells the story of a wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young peasant from the mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city’s foundling home to wet-nurse. When Amalia contracts syphilis from the sickly and malformed baby given to her, the city fathers callously dismiss her pleas for treatment and restitution. Bewildered and frightened, she seeks out Augusto Barbieri, an ambitious attorney looking to make a name for himself. He takes up Amalia’s cause, fighting the case for years through the Italian courts before winning an unprecedented and stunning victory for his by now broken client. The unforgettable story of a landmark struggle for basic human rights, Amalia’s Tale is the moving drama of a rural woman whose life was ruined and the man from the city who would not stop -- or so it seemed -- until he had seen justice done.
Author: Avery Duff
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
ISBN: 9781503943926
Category : Law partnership
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book. After five grueling years, Robert Worth is just days away from making partner at a powerful Santa Monica law firm. When a client confides in him that senior partner Jack Pierce sexually assaulted her, Robert breaks two of his mentor's cardinal rules: Never let yourself get emotional about clients. And never make an enemy of Jack Pierce. Robert crosses Pierce and is fired on the spot, losing not only his job but also his reputation. Advised to go quietly, Robert vows revenge against the ruthless man who betrayed him. But his investigation uncovers a twisted shadow world of sex, infidelity, and deception, where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. Only one thing is clear: Pierce will go the limit to keep his secrets. This straight shooter will need to use every angle if he hopes to win. But could victory come at too high a price?
