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61) A Far Country
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Though American author Winston Churchill often focused on historical events as inspiration for his novels, his later work more often explored the way that events conspired to shape his characters' opinions and values. In A Far Country, protagonist Hugh Paret enters his career as a corporate lawyer full of high-minded ideals, but begins to change his outlook as he gains experience in the business world. Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 - 24 January...
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A romantic trip to the Florida Keys turns deadly as Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana return in another thrilling murder mystery. When a young former client of Quintana's comes under investigation for murder, it seems like an open-and-shut case of innocence. But strange lies and more dead bodies lie hidden in the lush landscape of the Keys. As Gail and Anthony meet the island's odd assortment of inhabitants, they find that everyone has a scheme of...
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Roberta Ranger had a long, standing estate plan naming her nephew as, the executor and leaving 40% of a $20 Million Estate to family and 60% to Charities. However, at 89-years of age and suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, Roberta changed her estate plan to leave everything, to a neighbor, who had arranged for her own attorney, to draft the new Will for Roberta. That attorney had, a neuropsychologist exam Robert immediately after signing the Will...
64) La Apuesta
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"La Apuesta" es un cuento de 1889 de Anton Chekhov sobre un banquero y un joven abogado que hacen una apuesta entre ellos tras una conversación sobre si la pena de muerte es mejor o peor que la cadena perpetua.
65) The Gatekeeper/s
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The Gatekeeper/s blends realism and idealism in a novel way. The style is also unusual in that it moves from rhetorical dialogue to emphatic storytelling. The story is set against a legal system based on seeking consent between parties involved in a negotiation, rather than regarding one party wrong and the other right, as in the old legal system. Rhetoricians are the ones expected to obtain consent from people and they act on behalf of GAIC (Global...
66) The Paper Cloud
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The Paper Cloud is a story for those who want to relocate, only to find hurdle upon hurdle. A mix of lawyers, real estate agents, buyers, and sellers is not desirable. The resulting stress can be a challenge. This story is followed by several Anecdotes.
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Kate Brewster's quest to become the first woman to run a Wall Street institution is about to come to fruition. Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker who is most...
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"Pattie's Best Deal", the first novel in a series of four romantic legal thrillers, is set in Lower Manhattan in 2003. It follows the life of Pattie Anwald, a young public defender at the start of her career. Pattie means well and she has a good heart, but her crushing New York lifestyle eventually takes its toll on her. When a client vanishes and a mysterious adversary terrorizes her, her life spirals out of control.
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Jeremy Franklin is in the 8th grade when a friend is charged with stealing a necklace from a locked school locker. Jerry solves the crime and gets the necklace returned by discovering how the locker was entered and identifying the thief in a school assembly. He is praised by a teacher who calls him a 'budding' lawyer. As a result he is immediately asked to represent another student facing expulsion from school. Jerry argues his case in a hearing before...
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In this atypical mystery, a law professor retires after a career of challenging students to embrace fairness, justice, and equality while working summers to apply these principles in a legal clinic for disadvantaged persons. Upon retirement and dealing with a terminal illness, the Professor decides to attack what he views as the antithesis of his cherished legal principles-members of the right-wing establishment. Swinging from legal to illegal escapades,...
71) The Rapunzel Act
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When Breakfast TV host and nation's darling, Rosie Harper, is found brutally murdered at home, suspicion falls on her spouse, formerly international football star, Danny ‘walks on water' Mallard, now living out of the public eye as trans woman, Debbie. Not only must Debbie challenge the hard evidence against her, including her blood-drenched glove at the scene of the crime, she must also contend with the nation's prejudices, as the trial is...
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Ian Elkins is a straight shooter, a genuinely honest man-something of a rarity in the profession of law. Married and on the verge of fatherhood, he's acquired a reputation, by his own admission, as a "hot-shot estates lawyer" after uncovering a massive fraud in a major case. On the strength of that success, other estates come his way, including one worth twenty million dollars. He's thrilled by the very real prospect of hefty fees. But he soon finds...
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His long-lost son was the last person Dan Shepard, the Rattlesnake Lawyer, expected to meet when he was ordered to be at the courthouse in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Poor fourteen-year old Marley might even be psychic. With his special abilities, Marley can help Dan take his local practice statewide. Rattlesnake & Son could be the next great New Mexico law firm. Unfortunately, things go exceedingly wrong at school for Marley and he is charged...
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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...
75) The Chairman
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Baxter Boxer Tate is preparing to graduate with poor grades from an unaccredited law school when he first encounters Miller Johnson, a partner at Malloy, a third-rate insurance defense firm. Boxer is being sued in a personal-injury case, but after meeting with Miller, he knows he will get Millers firm to give him a jobhis first step on the road to judicial superstardom. After passing the bar exam, Boxer joins the Malloy law firm and finds himself...
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In 1925, the State of Tennessee enacted a law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools, specifically, that man came from apes. The law was immediately challenged by the ACLU and pitted two famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, a religious Fundamentalist and one-time presidential candidate, in a bruising contest. The case became famous, known as the Monkey Trial.
In this fictional trial, a high school teacher...
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People just didn't shoot people for no reason in rural, Midwestern Austin County in 1994. Not then. Not ever. Yet, the night before Halloween in Aunt Lotty's double-wide, somebody did. They shot and killed three children and left Lotty, their babysitter, for dead. It's an appalling story that rekindles in Clay Ambrose the reckless "enthusiasms" of his work. A crime reporter, whose alcoholism and loss of wonder have knocked him back to a low rung of...
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Life may seem heavenly if you're a good-looking, well-heeled partner in a successful New York law firm who was once a world tennis champion. Add a wonderful wife who's one of the best appeals lawyers in town, and what could spoil your day? In Bill Andrews' case, it's boredom. He's fed up with his lucrative specialty, insurance defense, and he wants some excitement. Beware of what you wish for. His excitement begins with a gourmet baker who loves to...
80) Unprotected
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A young social worker with a lonely past… A small Minnesota town's favorite son…An allegation...Unprotected is the story of Amanda Danscher, a young child protection social worker with a past she is trying to forget. She quickly becomes embroiled in a case against former state champion hockey player and favorite son, Chuck Thomas, who will do anything to buck the system rather than work with it-including whatever it takes to get Amanda out of...
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