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  • Trial and Error

    The Education of a Courtroom Lawyer

    by John C Tucker ...
    Trial and Error is a legal memoir that gives an unvarnished account of life as one of America's leading trial lawyers; detailing the path from nervous novice to the top of the legal profession. In 1958, John C. Tucker began a legal career that would lead the Chicago Tribune to call him "one of Chicago's finest and most idiosyncratic trial lawyers." Now, in a book reminiscent of Scott Turow's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything."The legal thriller of the decade." —Cleveland Plain Dealer**Described as “a page-turner filled with greed, duplicity, heartache, and bare-knuckle ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Clarence Darrow

    Attorney for the Damned

    Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Taking the Stand

    My Life in the Law

    **#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in.“Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Raw Life

    Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book

    Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.While dispensing speedy justice, Boyer, who was also town clerk and editor of the Northern ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching the Pig to Dance

    A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances

    by Fred Thompson ...
    Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a small town but not the smallest—after all, it was the county seat and it did have a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    American Prophet

    by Jeffrey Rosen ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • John J. Robinette

    Peerless Mentor: An Appreciation

    John J. Robinette, Canada’s greatest trial lawyer, was admired and respected by the bench and his fellow lawyers alike. A quiet, unassuming man outside the courtroom, he was a consummate performer when appearing before a judge and jury.Robinette became a household name as the defender of Evelyn Dick, who was charged with killing her husband and infant son in Hamilton in 1946, and of Steven Suchan, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Injustice System

    A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

    The maverick public defender who inspired John Grisham tells the story of his most frustrating caseA man accused of a murder he didn’t commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This powerful book reads like a page-turning legal thriller with one crucial difference: Justice is not served in the end.In 1986, Kris Maharaj was arrested in Miami for the murder of his ... Read more

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  • Before Memory Fades

    An Autobiography

    Before Memory Fades by Fali S. Nariman is a revelatory, comprehensive and perceptive autobiography – candid, compelling and authoritative.Internationally admired and respected, Fali S. Nariman is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He began his career at the Bombay High Court in November 1950, and has since been active in the legal profession. Over the years, he has held several ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Keeping It Civil

    The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer

    by Margaret Klaw ...
    Provocative true cases that explore the intersection of our most intimate relationships and the law—and offer a window into how we define a family today.A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances—her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for her intended purchases. A lesbian couple wants to include their sperm donor in their child's life—the sperm ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Partisan

    The Life of William Rehnquist

    As a young lawyer practicing in Arizona, far from the political center of the country, William Hubbs Rehnquist's iconoclasm made him a darling of Goldwater Republicans. He was brash and articulate. Although he was unquestionably ambitious and extraordinarily self-confident, his journey to Washington required a mixture of good-old-boy connections and rank good fortune. An outsider and often lone ... Read more

    $19.99 USD