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An attempted takeover of a West Virginia penitentiary goes badly, and a violent race riot breaks out among the prison population resulting in multiple injuries and deaths. Successful civil trial lawyer, Jack Fabian, is appointed to represent an indigent African American inmate who is accused of brutally murdering a White inmate during the melee. The lawyer is faced with the dilemma of representing a defendant who has been caught on prison surveillance...
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Recurrir al derecho comparado ya no es solo una cuestión de necesidad impulsada por los procesos de globalización e internacionalización del derecho, sino también un asunto de buena educación jurídica. El jurista bien educado comprende que, para conocer su propio derecho, debe conocer otros sistemas jurídicos. Este libro estudia esta rama del derecho, que constituye una herramienta imprescindible que profesores, jueces, abogados y estudiantes...
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Despite all that was revealed about Ian Ramsey's crimes during the Hope Kane criminal trial, Ramsey is still walking the streets as a free man. Prosecutors are hesitant to indict a powerful man like Ian Ramsey, unless they are presented with irrefutable evidence that will guarantee a conviction. Until Ramsey is tried and convicted of his crimes, Hope and her friends, Edward Miller and Annie Sharpe, must live each day in fear of Ramsey taking revenge...
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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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Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron.
Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra.
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas?
Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qué fue lo que pasó ese día, hace justo un año, cuando el trágico incendio de aquella cápsula hiperbárica cambió la vida de todos para siempre.
¿Es posible que sea verdad...
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West Virginia attorney, Jack Fabian, is a battle-tested, hard-drinking personal injury trial lawyer concentrating his practice on medical malpractice plaintiffs' cases. He's developed a penchant for big spending, expensive airplanes, top-shelf booze, and luxury vacations. In 2005, he finds himself feeling the adverse effects of the recently enacted, repressive medical malpractice tort reform law in his state that has dulled his enthusiasm for the...
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Level Up Your Law Practice lays the foundation for grounding a healthy mindset in practical business realities, so you can apply these principles to your law practice and build a vibrant business that serves both you and your clients. A healthy mindset gives you defensive measures to absorb criticism and manage your fears, and provides the foundation on which you can build a successful law practice. Progressive and sustainable business practices enable...
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Hace cuatro meses William E. Townsend Jr., el hijo de un senador republicano de Nueva Jersey fue asesinado en un motel de mala muerte, cerca de Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, una prostituta trans de diecinueve años, está detenida y todo indica que es la culpable. Erin McCabe es abogada defensora criminalista y este caso es el más importante de su carrera. Sabe que defender a Sharise pondrá al desnudo su propia vida. Pero como mujer trans, siente...
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La primera edición de Teoría pura del derecho (1934) constituye una exposición sintética y rigurosa de la concepción teórico-jurídica de Hans Kelsen. En ella se presenta una teoría general del derecho «depurada» de toda «contaminación» extrajurídica proveniente de las ciencias empíricas y de las ideologías. El método que la «teoría pura del derecho» proclama como idóneo es el método positivista, normativista y formalista, y su...
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The main characters in our story, Jay Allan Scripps and Rowena Moore, have connected after many years after a mysterious accident. He is hiding from his past, while she leads a reclusive existence. They are motivated by a perhaps misguided need to improve their world. Their unique use of guns forms helps save lives in a neglected area of the city."Baltimore Blue and Freddie Gray" is a work of fiction set in Baltimore during the eventful time of...
11) Second To Cry
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Sometimes, behind the simplest cases...
Lawyer Aiden Connolly's new case seems to be a run-of-the-mill paternity dispute. Millionaire Sam Fern suspects that his son is not his own flesh and blood, and he wants a paternity test to prove it. Fern's wife Deena, a glamorous former model, is desperate to convince Aiden of her innocence...and she will go to any lengths to prove it.
...hide the darkest truths.
Meanwhile, Aiden is haunted by the memory...
12) The Trial
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A young boy dying of a lethal disease... A corporation's greed is the cause... Avery Collins must get justice and possibly find the person who can save his life... Avery Collins, social justice warrior, has a new case, only it's not a criminal case. Not yet, anyway. 7 year old Frankie Jamison is dying, and nobody quite knows why. Avery knows Frankie through Regina, as Frankie is the son of Lorinda, one of Regina's best friends from the street. Lorinda...
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An innocent woman charged with murder. A conspiracy at the highest level. A greedy corporation brought to its knees... Damien's mother, Olivia, is being charged with murder. At first glance, Damien thinks that the murder charge is flimsy at best. Olivia's friend, Dr. Tracy Dunham, died at her home of an apparent drug overdose. Olivia insists that she was simply sitting in her home, minding her own business, when Dr. Dunham came over to crash on her...
14) The Alibi
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The wife of a gangster is accused of offing him. Damien soon finds that nobody is who they seem - quite literally. But to defend his client, he must break every ethical rule. Damien Harrington is fresh off his come from behind victory when he's thrust into yet another harrowing scenario. Gina Degrazio, wife to Vittorio Degrazio, notorious gangster, stands accused of Vittorio's murder. Gina's a tough-talking native New Yorker who was transplanted...
15) Reasonable Doubt
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A famous artist murdered. A prime suspect with memory loss. A shocking revelation. A prominent artist from New York City, in town for a show, is found brutally murdered in the back of an art gallery. A prominent gay art dealer stands accused of the murder. He fears he might have done it. He doesn't remember if he did or not. Damien must get at the truth, which is made more difficult by the fact that even his client doesn't know the truth about what...
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"A masterful story of murder, corruption, and sexual obsession, with the tension meter on high" from the author of Midnight and A Shattered Circle (Booklist).
For law clerk Linda Conover, who studied art in college, her boss's new case is close to her heart. The ownership of an ancient Roman silver urn-part of a treasure valued at seventy million dollars-is being contested by the governments of Croatia and Hungary and the Earl of...
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A lawyer gets uncomfortably close to a former client, crossing a dangerous line, in this edgy debut thriller.
Daniel, a criminal barrister, is working all hours on a sensational trial at the Old Bailey, defending a client he believes is wrongfully accused of a grisly murder. Determined to keep Rod out of prison, he begins to neglect his wife-and soon afterwards suspects she's having an affair.
After Daniel triumphs in court, the bond he's...
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Getting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim.After his courtroom career goes up in smoke, Daniel Pike receives a mysterious job offer from a secretive boss offering him a lifeline-a one-time opportunity to join The Last Chance Lawyers, a group with mysterious origins and funding. He's offered a generous salary with the condition that he accepts the cases assigned to him. He's told all the cases will be for...
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A judge's wife struggles under the deadly weight of secrets both past and present in "Egan's excellent third legal thriller . . . his best to date" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Ever since a fall from a stepladder, Judge Lonergan hasn't been the same. The accident triggered traumatic dementia-a condition that his wife and secretary, Barbara, is desperate to keep hidden from the public. With the help of the judge's law clerk, she seems...
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You can run from your demons, but you can't escape evil. Eliza Kingston moved away from Silver Lake twenty years ago after a tragedy rocked the town. She never expected to move back and she certainly never expected to find herself in the middle of a murderer's deadly games.This box set contains the first three books of the Eliza Kingston Mystery Series: Pride of Lions, Den of Snakes, and Murder of Crows.
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