Gabriela Sanchez, a young Hispanic lawyer, eager to prove to her attorney father that she can make it on the big stage moves from The Rio Grande Valley to Dallas and joins the citys largest law firm. As one of the few Hispanic women lawyers, Gabriela makes a name for herself based on her being named one of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas, and receiving a Catholic Charities award for her defense of immigrant and refugee children. When a public relations firm selects her to defend the richest man in Texas in a highly publicized white collar criminal case, she has the opportunity that could skyrocket her career and reputation, or ruin it. During her defense Gabriela learns how tough it is for a rich man to get a fair trial when she is up against a government prosecutor hell bent on doing anything to convict the billionaire, including finding ways to destroy Gabriella in the process.
In The Money Lawyers Joseph C. Goulden vividly describes how lawyering has become a money-driven business, not just a profession. It explores the lucrative world of class-action litigation, where plaintiff lawyers - "The Class-Action Club" - garner billions of dollars in damages and fees through suits against manufacturers of items such as breast implants, asbestos, and diet pills. Also featured are the new super-lawyer David Boies of IBM/Florida vote fame; the Washington, D.C., lawyer-lobbyist Tom Boggs; and the mess divorce of securities "strike-suit law" William Lerach of San Diego and Melvyn Weiss of New York. Additionally, the dark side of "white-shoe law" is detailed in an account of how a Wall Street firm cast out partners so that survivors could make more money, and the price the firm paid for its blatant disloyalty.
Shy, reserved, young lawyer Gabriela Sanchez may have more of a reputation for her stunning looks than her big case trial experience but there's much more to her than meets the eye. When she is hand-picked by a public relations firm to represent the richest man in Texas, she soon realizes her life is about to change forever. As a young Latina lawyer who is more comfortable volunteering with immigrants than mixing with the rich and famous, Gabriela comes from a different world to her client, conservative oil billionaire Sparks Duval. But can she put aside these differences to make sure his bulging bank balance and high profile status don't get in the way of his right to a fair trial? And just how far will the government lawyers go to convict Duval? With the case described by the media as the 'Texas trial of the century', Gabriela knows she needs to win the hearts and minds of a sceptical jury to secure the right verdict.The Billionaire's Lawyer is the first book in the Gabriela Sanchez series by author Cordell Parvin. This fast-paced courtroom drama will keep you on the edge of your seat as the characters struggle to find a balance between money and power and justice and morality. Can an idealistic young lawyer and a smart PR team work together to save Sparks or are there too many people with everything to gain from seeing him end up behind bars?
Jaden loves buying clubs. With the money he inherited his goal is to buy and fix all that he can. The only thing stopping him right now? A lawyer that he’s heard is a hardass. He’s doing all he can to avoid her, but he can’t run forever. Veronica loves being a lawyer even if she has to deal with certain jerks who keep missing the meetings. When she does finally meet MR. Elusive, it doesn’t go at all to plan. Thrown together in more ways than one, will they make it to the end in one piece?
Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point - he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy's life is transformed. But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son, Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything - even if it means putting Andy's life in danger...
Genevieve is a lawyer, not a babysitter, and certainly not a dog trainer. She is just about to become a full barrister, a British litigating attorney, when her law mentor dies unexpectedly. She is shuffled off to another barrister, one who's nothing at all like her kind and decent former mentor, and then she is assigned the office's worst case: Arthur Finch-Hatten, six-feet and four-inches of ripped, loaded, hot English nobleman who is wasting his life and his inherited estate so audaciously that his younger brother is suing him for control of their family's earldom. There is a darn good chance that Arthur will lose everything, even his crazed, badly behaved puppy.Unless he shapes up.Gen's new boss hasn't been able to convince Arthur to mend his ways. His uncle's lectures haven't had any effect on his depraved debauchery and lavish lifestyle.The only way for Genevieve to make partner is to win Arthur's case, and the only way to win his case and save his earldom is to keep him from spending his days hungover in bed and his nights pouring Cristal on drunk, naked women before flying off in his private jumbo jet to the next party.Arthur is enough to make any woman need a stiff drink.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, and lawyers.
A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph "[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism." —Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." —Peter Frankopan, Financial Times Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine Western institutions. But how and why did all this come about, and who has orchestrated it? In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. The result is a chilling and revelatory exposé of the KGB’s revanche—a story that begins in the murk of the Soviet collapse, when networks of operatives were able to siphon billions of dollars out of state enterprises and move their spoils into the West. Putin and his allies subsequently completed the agenda, reasserting Russian power while taking control of the economy for themselves, suppressing independent voices, and launching covert influence operations abroad. Ranging from Moscow and London to Switzerland and Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach—and assembling a colorful cast of characters to match—Putin’s People is the definitive account of how hopes for the new Russia went astray, with stark consequences for its inhabitants and, increasingly, the world.
Jackson Bryant, the millionaire plaintiff lawyer who turned to pro bono work in Dead Peasants, is caught up in the collision of money and politics when he receives a call from his old army buddy Walt Frazier. Walt needs his assistance in evaluating security for Texas Governor Rob Lardner at a Halloween costume fundraiser thrown by one of the nation's richest Republican billionaires at his mansion in Fort Worth. Miriam Van Zandt is the best marksman among The Alamo Defenders, an anti-government militia group in West Texas. She attends the fundraiser dressed as a cat burglar--wounds the governor and murders the host's brother, another Republican billionaire. She is shot in the leg but manages to escape. Jack is appointed special prosecutor and must call on the Texas DPS SWAT team to track Van Zandt and attack The Alamo Defenders' compound in a lonely part of West Texas. Van Zandt's father, founder of the Defenders, is killed in the attack and Miriam is left in a coma. The authorities declare victory and close the case-but Jack knows better. The person behind the Halloween massacre has yet to be caught. When Walt and the protective detail are sued by the fundraiser host and the widow of the dead man, Jack follows the dark money of political contributions from the Cayman Islands to Washington to Eastern Europe, New York and New Orleans to track the real killer and absolve his friend and the Protective Detail of responsibility for the massacre. Dark Money is a thriller, a mystery and an expose of the corruption of money in politics caused by the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United.
Why would billionaire, South Florida Mob Boss, Antonio "Magic Man" Barrera hire Jason Noble, a no-name, untested criminal defense lawyer to represent him in his federal death penalty trial? Jason Noble knows he can become a great lawyer, even if the rest of the world does not. All he needs is that one big case the media goes crazy for, and he is on his way to fame and fortune. He thought he landed the chance of a lifetime when Peter Cohen called him to take over representing Antonio Barrera. But first, he has to find the federal courthouse. When Jason thinks about it now, working for the Palm Beach County Public Defender's Office seemed like Disney World compared to his current client list of one. Jason soon finds himself fighting against the might of the entire federal government, orchestrating the attack is Trevor Wittingham, an overzealous Assistant United States Attorney who sees Antonio's case as his ticket to removing the "assistant" from his title. Jason's biggest challenge is fighting against his own client's attempts to sabotage the case.
