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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Landon Reed is an ex-quarterback convicted of organizing a points-shaving scheme. During his time in prison, he found forgiveness and faith and earned his law degree. Now he longs for an opportunity to prove his loyalty and worth. "Be careful what you ask for." Harry McNaughton is one of the founding partners of McNaughton & Clay--and the only lawyer willing to take a chance employing an ex-con-turned-lawyer. Though Landon initially questions Harry's...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Information that reduces the panic factor, familiarizes you with legal language, and helps you overcome misconceptions when commonplace legal issues arise.
"The first thing we do, we kill all the lawyers"; Shakespeare may have had a point, but the truth is, from time to time, we all could use a good attorney. This survival guide won't replace legal counsel, but by stating your rights plainly, it can help with some pretty weighty matters—including...
"The first thing we do, we kill all the lawyers"; Shakespeare may have had a point, but the truth is, from time to time, we all could use a good attorney. This survival guide won't replace legal counsel, but by stating your rights plainly, it can help with some pretty weighty matters—including...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich -- including newly minted dot-com millionaires -- to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and COBRA and were developed by such prestigious firms as...
Author
Series
Solomon vs. Lord volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
They are the legal world's oddest couple: a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. The only thing keeping them together is that they're on the same side.
It starts with a three-hundred-pound marlin stuck in his front door. Even by South Florida standards, where murderers outnumber mosquitoes, this registers as weird. It's not long before Steve Solomon figures out who's making the bizarre death threats. But how can he
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Publisher
Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating history of crime and punishment, Gaslight Lawyers paints a serious but entertaining portrait of colorful characters, courtroom drama, and the emerging importance of forensic science and medical-legal jurisprudence in Gilded Age New York City. From the 1870s to the early 1900s, post-Civil War New York City was becoming a wonder city of commerce and invention, art and architecture, and emerging global prominence. It was also a city of...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to...
14) White shoe: how a new breed of Wall Street lawyers changed big business and the American century
Author
Language
English
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Description
A former Manhattan lawyer recounts how an ambitious new class of attorneys in the twentieth century devised and implemented the strategies that launched the era of American big business and international Wall Street prominence.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The shocking, definitive account of the lawyers and media tycoons who enabled the rise of Donald Trump, featuring new revelations from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal team. With his blunt-force fame and the myths hes propagated about himself, Donald Trump has always moved in a world of gossip barons, crooked lawyers, and porn stars. But when he became the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2016, all of these characters crawled out...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. Some, such as Thurgood Marshall, were Supreme Court Justices. Others, like John Doar and Burke Marshall, set the civil rights policies of the federal government during the 1960s. Some, including Harry Kalven and Catharine MacKinnon, have taught at the greatest law schools...
Author
Publisher
Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Forcelli was a highly respected federal agent in New York City, where he made an impact on violent crime by successfully targeting some of the city’s most violent street gangs by using federal racketeering and continuing criminal enterprise statutes in conjunction with federal prosecutors. In early 2007, he was promoted to a supervisory position in Phoenix and quickly discovered that federal prosecutors were not charging criminals for violating...
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