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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...
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Law and society scholars challenge the
common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards
and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of
communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law
works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social
structures, but the connections are much more nuanced-and surprising-than many
expect.
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Many lawyers find the practice of law intolerable. It simply stinks. "So why don't you leave it?" they say. "Why not find another job? Your law degree is valuable!" They don't know what they're talking about. For most lawyers, switching careers simply isn't an option. We have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The only answer is to find some way to make it tolerable. This book is designed to do just that - help lawyers who hate the law find some way...
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Despite all that was revealed about Ian Ramsey's crimes during the Hope Kane criminal trial, Ramsey is still walking the streets as a free man. Prosecutors are hesitant to indict a powerful man like Ian Ramsey, unless they are presented with irrefutable evidence that will guarantee a conviction. Until Ramsey is tried and convicted of his crimes, Hope and her friends, Edward Miller and Annie Sharpe, must live each day in fear of Ramsey taking revenge...
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Hawaiian Phoenix
Born to a dying prostitute mother and a rich playboy Irish father. Raised by two loving native Hawaiians who gave him life guiding values. Powered by a fast mind and very athletic physique Brian Oneill's life was similar to the "Rise of the Phoenix". He was to rise to heights far beyond those around him.
Brian's ambitions, his intellect and the guidance of his Hawaiian parents inspired him to develop himself. He pursued his learning...
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"Breaking Up is Hard to Do," the song goes. It's easy for some. They do it by text, or they sit down at the kitchen table and draw a line down the middle of the page. His and hers. We lawyers call that "splittin' up the silverware."
But for many, the process is traumatic. Spend a day in divorce court and you'll see where dreams die, sometimes more than dreams.
Meet the parents who force their disabled son to testify in their own divorce, the tipsy...
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Get the Summary of David Farber's The War on Drugs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The War on Drugs" by David Farber traces the complex history of drug regulation and prohibition in the United States, from the early 20th century to the present day. The book examines the ambivalent attitudes toward substances like alcohol, opium, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis, leading to various legislative efforts to control...
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Charlie Walden is the Resident Judge of the Bermondsey Crown Court, where he had hoped for a quiet life, but has found it to be anything but. With the job of balancing the needs of prosecutors, judges, 'Grey Smoothies', the humourless grey-suited civil servants, and the overall needs of a Crown Court he soon finds himself struggling to keep the peace and his own delightful humour.
Charlie is faced with a number of topical issues he hadn't anticipated;...
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Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the current era, when we recognize ourselves and both humans and animals, sexual depiction has lost some of its sting. Its degrading role has been replaced by hate speech that distances groups,...
12) Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State
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Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and celebrated, this principle is considered by many, for right or wrong, a defining aspect of American national identity.
Nearly all discussions regarding the role of religion in American life build on two dominant assumptions: first, the separation of church and state...
13) Anonymous Lawyer
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A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a weblog to tell the world about what life...
14) Key Witness
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To reclaim his integrity, a corporate lawyer takes on an unwinnable case After years at the top of his game, Wyatt Matthews has hit rock bottom. Though his bank account is bursting and his law practice is thriving, Wyatt takes no joy in his work. Seeking meaning, he volunteers for six months as a public defender, where he finds that the legal system is an ugly place for those who can't afford top-notch help. In one of his first cases, he arranges...
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Recurrir al derecho comparado ya no es solo una cuestión de necesidad impulsada por los procesos de globalización e internacionalización del derecho, sino también un asunto de buena educación jurídica. El jurista bien educado comprende que, para conocer su propio derecho, debe conocer otros sistemas jurídicos. Este libro estudia esta rama del derecho, que constituye una herramienta imprescindible que profesores, jueces, abogados y estudiantes...
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Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron.
Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra.
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas?
Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qué fue lo que pasó ese día, hace justo un año, cuando el trágico incendio de aquella cápsula hiperbárica cambió la vida de todos para siempre.
¿Es posible que sea verdad...
17) Altar of Ashes
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Altar of Ashes opens with two young hunters witnessing a horror in the backwoods of Indiana: the sacrificial rite of sati, with the bride on the funeral pyre a ten-year-old girl atop the corpse of her husband.
Allen Southworth, the local prosecutor, soon finds himself embroiled in a spectacular case revolving around issues of religious toleration, cultural bigotry, and multicultural diversity, which sweep the small community into a vortex of national...
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Hope Scott...
She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price; a blackmail, the rape of her trust fund, and perhaps the ruin of her marriage.
Judge Paul Murray...
He fought his way up from his working-class Irish roots to the Federal bench. Tough and honest, dedicated to the law, he relishes sitting...
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What exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test?
Interweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who is smart and who is not. To give weight to his assertion that intelligence is not simply an inherent characteristic but rather one which reflects the...
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West Virginia attorney, Jack Fabian, is a battle-tested, hard-drinking personal injury trial lawyer concentrating his practice on medical malpractice plaintiffs' cases. He's developed a penchant for big spending, expensive airplanes, top-shelf booze, and luxury vacations. In 2005, he finds himself feeling the adverse effects of the recently enacted, repressive medical malpractice tort reform law in his state that has dulled his enthusiasm for the...