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1) The Art of Settlement: A Lawyer's Guide to Regulatory Compliance when Resolving Catastrophic Claim
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The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exposes you personally to government recovery actions, damages, and malpractice risks. It's vital that your personal injury practice has a comprehensive plan for compliance when resolving cases if you want to protect yourself-and protect your clients.
In The Art of Settlement, Jason Lazarus helps you navigate...
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279 pages ; 23 cm
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"For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely...
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En este ensayo, el autor describe con total claridad el proceso policial y judicial desde la aprensión del presunto delincuente hasta su liberación, y con algo de cinismo ilustra las graves y endémicas fallas de un sistema judicial uruguayo que niega derechos humanos básicos a los indagados, en una máquina de procesar delitos de toda índole a pasos acelerados, con las cárceles abarrotadas y los juzgados penales trabajando muy por encima de...
6) What we find
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A Denver neurosurgeon relocates to the small rural town named after her ancestor in the aftermath of a wrongful malpractice suit to recover and reconnect with her estranged father.
Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. She returns to Sullivan's Crossing to slow down before she burns out completely. Her eccentric father,...
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438 pages ; 25 cm
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"In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk - still in practice but a shell of his former self - is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder...
8) Deadly Cure
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In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician-the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias-of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum.
To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder-for it must be murder-and confront the...
9) Trial
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A memoir of the last five years experiences of an average guy who ran into a "few" problems that were not of his making. These experiences of life couldn't really be true in this day and age and in this republic, could they?
Do lawyers get cut slack? What if you did it? Or, I did it?
Who stands up for the average guy?
What if the average guy is somebody's target?
Franz Kafka understood. He had a handle on it.
And yet, we trust our systems and our...
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Every mob boss needs a hitman. Somebody who will do the dirty job on the mob boss' behalf by threatening, assaulting and if needed killing those, the mob boss wants away.In this shocking world super-exclusive book, we present one of the most famous and active hitmen inside Microsoft. Yes, you read that right! Microsoft does have such people on its rolls because it employs such tactics inside the company to ensure the heads of the company stay powerful...
11) Charlatans
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"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
13) The 5th horseman
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Women's murder club volume 5
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410 pages ; 25 cm.
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Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital, and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospital's reputation.
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xii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opiod addiction"--
"In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li's corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and Xanax, trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors,...
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I wasn't popular before I got locked up in Straight Inc., the notorious "tough love" program for troubled teens. But when you're psychologically beaten for sixteen months, you start to absorb the lessons. The lessons in Straight were: You are evil. Your peers are evil. Everything is evil except Straight, Inc. Before long, you're a true believer. And when you're finally released, sent back into the world, you crave safety. Crave being back in the warehouse....
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One family's heart-wrenching journey through an exhausted medical system during the height of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Their mother was misdiagnosed, restrained, tortured, and kept on medications for long periods of time that further damaged her already damaged organs. Their mother and the family went through a plethora of heartbreaking, horrifying experiences of medical malpractice, negligence, and wrongdoing by the hospital that they believe...
18) Michael Clayton
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
19) The verdict
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Collector's edition volume 31
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2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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