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This is. Story of survival and recovery against all odds. Jim was raised. Dirt poor on a marginal farm in Iowa. Became severely disabled right after high school from polio, went to college and law school.
At state expense, was appointed Assistant U.S. District Attorney by Robert Kennedy, list his wife in a car accident, was an alcoholic for 25 years, got sober and became a superior court judge. Now sober 47 years.
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Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humor, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in the top levels of our justice system.
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This memoir will give you not only a sense of Graten Beaver's life, but also of life in his time. Rooted in a close entrepreneurial family in small-town Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s, he learned early the importance of hard work, education, and service. He started out sweeping the sidewalk in front of his parent's grocery store, worked his way through college, and progressed into a multi-dimensional law career. In this book you'll read about how...
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Many lawyers find the practice of law intolerable. It simply stinks. "So why don't you leave it?" they say. "Why not find another job? Your law degree is valuable!" They don't know what they're talking about. For most lawyers, switching careers simply isn't an option. We have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The only answer is to find some way to make it tolerable. This book is designed to do just that - help lawyers who hate the law find some way...
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Texas that most singular of states, conceals an entire parade of peculiar events and exceptional people in the back pages of its history books. A Lone Star man once (and only once) tried to bulldog a steer from an airplane. The Japanese attacked one small Texas town, while another was "liberated" from America during the Cold War. Texan career choices include goat gland doctor, rubbing doctor, striking cowboy and singing cowboy, not to mention swatter,...
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For over four hundred years, African Americans have fought long and hard to become more than second class citizens of this country. These battles have been fought on many battlegrounds. Health, education, politics and employment are just a few of the many major battles that have been fought. A Legal Lynching is not a story of any of these battles. Instead, this thrilling action-packed account takes place in the criminal justice system. African Americans...
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The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the...
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The legal drama of a man who'd spent almost forty years in prison for murders he denied committing and the tenacious lawyers who believed in his innocence.
In the spring of 1962, on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert, an abandoned car and two bodies were discovered. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff's department of Maricopa County for years; despite a few promising leads the case went cold. More than a decade later, a...
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The definitive biography of one of history's greatest Supreme Court justices.
How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most liberal Supreme Court in modern history? This new biography of Earl Warren Sr., based on primary sources and previously unpublished material, brings together for the first-time family recollections, anecdotes, mementos, photos, documents, and excerpts from diaries, along with the facts of the great jurist's life....
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As she lay on the bed, bruised and bleeding, she felt her strength come back, and her steely determination tightened inside. It was time to make a decision.
Cecilia Chattergee (1896-1947) was a woman who defied convention.
She was a lawyer in India, at a time when women didn't have careers. She was a Parsee who married outside of her religion. She lived as a widow when Indian society ostracized widows.
She also endured unimaginable trauma and tragedy,...
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Diese Ausgabe von "Franz Lieber - Ein Bürger zweier Welten" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert.
Francis Lieber (1800-1872), ursprünglich Franz Lieber, war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Jurist, Publizist und Rechts- und Staatsphilosoph. Er wurde bekannt durch die Erstellung des Lieber Codes, einer Vorschrift zur Kriegsführung, die durch einen Erlass des damaligen US-Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln für die Truppen...
92) Krambambuli
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Krambambuli is a memoir of the author's childhood experiences during and subsequent to World War II. She documents three stages of displacement due to war: escaping destruction in Estonia, living as a refugee in Germany and Austria, and beginning a new life as an immigrant first in the United States, and later in Canada. Krambambuli is not meant to be a historical account. Rather, it offers a child's perspective of the situations and people making...
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Having lost the love of my life and feeling my world had ended, I asked God, "Lord, is this all you have for my life?" and two weeks later, Canon Andrew White, the vicar of Baghdad, asked me to ring. I didn't know him, but I rang, and he asked me if I had heard of Saddam Hussein and explained that the judge who sentenced him to death, minister of justice for Iraq, Mr. Raouf was coming to Spires Hospital Southampton for an operation and God told him...
94) You were there for me: Discover the flipside of the coin from her time in a Long-Term Care Hospital
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This book tells the story of a benevolent mother who, once placed in a LTCH, died as a result of the neglect to which she was subjected. It's also the story of a loving son who, in addition to having supported her to the end, decided, by all means, to piece together the pieces of the puzzle in order to understand the situation and do justice to his mother, who died in unusual circumstances.
This novel, sometimes denunciatory, sometimes inspiring,...
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Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse's compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways...
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was 32 at the time, a mother of three who had never traveled outside the U.S. What she brought to Afghanistan was a toughness and resilience which came from growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in the country, a fundamental belief in everyone's right to justice, and an unconventional...
97) The Articulate Advocate: Persuasive Skills for Lawyers in Trials, Appeals, Arbitrations, and Motions
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An advocate may know what to say but is only effective when he or she knows how to be persuasive. Combining facts with know-how to persuade judges, juries, and arbitrators, the book teaches immediately useful techniques such as how to channel the initial adrenaline buzz, grab and hold the fact finder's attention, gesture while speaking, speak in phrases, and polish the persuasive style. Based on 30 years of experience from coaching practitioners,...
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Let's Kiss All the Lawyers... Said No One Ever!
A story of unrequited love!
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This book is written from an unusually light perspective on a dark and otherwise closeted subject — personal discontentment within the legal profession. Virginia is asking us lawyers to take a step back and look at ourselves with a sense of humour and lightness, from a place that others might fear to tread. That said, with serious science and other entertaining...
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Big-ticket litigation is a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot-something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settlement, and by courtroom assaults that have followed against industries ranging from HMOs to gunmakers, from lead paint manufacturers to "factory farms." Each massive class-action suit seeks to invent new law, to ban or tax or regulate something that elected lawmakers had chosen to leave alone. And each time the new...
100) Lawyers, liars, and the art of storytelling: using stories to advocate, influence, and persuade
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"Storytelling, what it is, why it matters, how to do it, is not a metaphor for legal advocacy. It is legal advocacy itself, and it is not limited to jury trials or court appearances: It relates to every aspect of a lawyers work. The practice of law is the business of persuasion, and storytelling is the most effective means of persuading. A credible lawyer incapable of telling a well-reasoned story that moves the listener will always beat the lawyer...
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