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1) The firm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert and Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail - already knew: You never get nothing for nothing.
3) My own words
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, on being Jewish, on law...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to...
10) Breach of trust
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths.
11) The people's advocate: the life and legal history of America's most fearless public interest lawyer
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of American Constitutional Trial Attorney Daniel Sheehan, describing the twists in his career path as well as the significant cases he worked on, including the Pentagon Papers, Karen Silkwood, and Iran Contra.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy shares memories from his turbulent childhood, the lessons he learned from family mentors, and finding his calling as a passionate environmental activist.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with black and white archival photographs.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The attorneys at Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart adjust to life as the subsidiary of the world’s seventh largest law firm, STR Laurie. While bristling under the eye of their corporate overlords, Diane Lockhart and colleagues investigate the impact of the mysterious Memo 618. Liz Reddick makes an unexpected, strong connection with a new associate. Lucca Quinn tackles a high-profile divorce case with a temperamental partner, and Adrian Boseman considers...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Tonya Bolden chronicles the life of an intrepid lawyer and civil rights pioneer. Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics . . . ....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When her friend's multimillion-dollar investment scam ruins Diane Lockhart's plan for retirement, wipes out her savings and taints her reputation, she is literally at a loss. In Season 1 of The Good Fight (from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King), a disgraced Diane is forced out of her own law firm and joins another distinguished company as a junior partner. She recruits Maia Rindell, a promising young attorney with her own baggage: Maia's...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alan Dershowitz has been called the "winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history." He has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and many more. Here, for the first time, Dershowitz writes about his evolution as a lawyer--how within a few short years he changed from a C-minus student in Yeshiva...
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