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Author: Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002-09-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780802085603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough Cohen rose to the top of his profession, he had a difficult, complex private life that contributed to his personal disgrace and professional downfall.
Author: Eric Zyla
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934086070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Renegade Lawyer" satirizes todays legal profession. Rather than collecting stories of widows leaving their fortunes to their cats or stupid cases from the 1800s, this book tackles such topics as how majoring in political science is pointless, how the way the law is taught would have Socrates turning over in his grave, and how court decisions result from what the judge had for breakfast. (Legal Reference/Law Profession)
Author: Benjamin W. Glass
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781633850804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Lee Saltonstall
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0700633677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden.” So begins Renegade for Justice, a memoir of a public interest lawyer driven by the cause of justice. While the stories Stephen Saltonstall tells are entertaining, they are also instructive, providing, as he says, “an insider look at the American justice system, which is rigged against the poor and people of color and tolerates police perjury.” Renegade for Justice begins by telling the story of how and why a privileged kid from Cambridge, Massachusetts, broke from family tradition and devoted his professional life to defending the defenseless in a justice system that is crippled by systemic injustice. Activist lawyer Stephen Saltonstall brings readers into the world of criminal defense by recounting narratives of his cases, including a successful attack on a Massachusetts death penalty statute, appeals of two notorious homicide cases (a serial murderer and a cop-killer), an effort to save the life of a little boy whose parents refused to give him the medical treatment he needed for acute lymphocytic leukemia, free speech cases for students and an environmentalist carpenter, litigation to save critical black bear and neotropical migratory songbird habitat from US Forest Service clear-cutting, and more. In a system biased against the public interest and the underprivileged, Saltonstall gives people a model for practicing values-based law. Channeling the spirit of radicals like William Kunstler, Saltonstall writes not only for activists who want to better understand our society, but also for those thinking about becoming a lawyer. As he writes in the preface, “I hope my stories will challenge those of you—you know who you are, you who dream of soft landings in the glittering halls of boring, soul-free law firms doing the bidding of the uber-rich and powerful—to visualize the alternative, a career that’s built on cases and causes that further the public interest, human rights, and care of the natural world.”
Author: Steve Joynt
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack Montgomery's career came to an abrupt end in October 1993 when FBI agents uncovered thousands of dollars in his home -- money allegedly earned from bribes. Several months later he was indicted on charges of extortion and racketeering. No one may ever really know exactly what happened. In February 1994 Jack Montgomery was found shot to death. Was it suicide? Was it murder? The web of corruption continues to unravel around Jack Montgomery, and the comprehensive story is told in detail here by Birmingham Post-Herald reporter Steve Joynt.
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2021-09-20
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0316280011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
Author: Nancy Allen
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1538719185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKate Stone swore an oath to uphold the law. But is it time to take justice into her own hands? THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE… Assistant DA Kate Stone has just suffered the biggest loss of her career. She’d worked so hard to prosecute a serial assaulter of women, and it was a case she should have won. But a corrupt judge allowed Max James to walk free. When he confronts her outside the courthouse, she punches James, and he goes down hard. After the footage is plastered across every TV screen, Kate’s boss demands that she either attend anger management meetings or give up the job she lives for. CAN BE DIFFERENT FROM THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH. Begrudgingly, Kate attends her first meeting. Inside is a group of people all failed by the justice system. Their mission: to do everything in their power to help right wrongs, even if outside the law. Unsure who to trust among this unlikely team of renegades, Kate begins to dig into Max James’s secret life and her explosive discoveries will lead to a stunning new twist in the case. And turn her into the prime suspect.
Author: Harry Brooks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2022-08-23
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1669843475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBROOKS DOES IT AGAIN! The Mobster and The Lawyer is the story of two boyhood friends who grew up on the streets of Chicago, each going their separate ways. Roberto Longo, is the son of Maria Longo, who had an affair with a well to do Jewish law student. The night she was going to tell him she was pregnant, he told her he was transferring from the University of Chicago to Harvard Law School. She never told him. Roberto goes on to become a successful criminal defense attorney. His boyhood friend Tony Castellina’s father is a ‘mob-guy’ and Tony follows in his father’s footsteps. When the state of Nevada decides to prosecute Tony for numerous illegal activities, Roberto goes to Las Vegas to defend him, and discovers the Attorney General for the state of Nevada is going to personally prosecute the case. What happens after that will keep the readers on the edge of their seat!
Author: Bradley K Ross
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2024-05-20
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story about both a renegade attorney and about his young associate who uncovers the unethical followed by the criminal behavior of his wayward boss. Brian Roth is a fictionalized version of the author when he first started practicing law in the 1980s in San Diego, California. The events in this story are based on real situations he personally encountered or knew of, fictionalized true events that are woven into a story of good versus evil, right versus wrong, legal versus illegal. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty. After passing the Bar, Brian Roth had no job offers, at least from conventional firms or government agencies. As a result, without any other offers, he takes an unusual hybrid associate job, which unfortunately was the only job he could get. He starts work in a small San Diego law office working for Mr. Thomas Fair, an unconventional combative sole practitioner. Mr. Fair, while outwardly appearing only a truculent narcissistic lawyer, is under the surface a much more sinister person as Brian slowly uncovers. Even Brian, as a novice attorney, sees the wrong in his new boss' actions and has to make difficult choices, choices to keep himself employed, choices to keep his Bar card, choices to stay alive. Just as many young adults begin their careers, as Brian Roth enters the legal world, he also enters into a personal relationship that culminates in him taking a dramatic step. In both his personal life and his life as a new lawyer, Brian must react to circumstances that life has presented. This story proves the old adage, the truth is stranger than fiction.
Author: Dennis G. Molinaro
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1442629606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society that they govern. The expectation though is that once the conflict is over, these emergency powers will be lifted. An Exceptional Law showcases how the emergency law used to repress labour activism during the First World War became normalized with the creation of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, following the Winnipeg General Strike. Dennis G. Molinaro argues that the institutionalization of emergency law became intricately tied to constructing a national identity. Following a mass deportation campaign in the 1930s, Section 98 was repealed in 1936 and contributed to the formation of Canada’s first civil rights movement. Portions of it were used during the October Crisis and recently in the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2015. Building on the theoretical framework of Agamben, Molinaro advances our understanding of security as ideology and reveals the intricate and codependent relationship between state-formation, the construction of liberal society, and exclusionary practices.
