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Marta Richter, a lawyer with the all-female firm Rosato & Associates, is hours away from winning an acquittal for millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, when she learns he has lied to her and is really guilty of murder, but her efforts to find evidence to convict her own client are thwarted by her boss Benedetta Rosato, who has a better plan for dealing with their crooked client.
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In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, The Devil's Defender, recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate-and a human being. For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero "the Barefoot Bandit" Colton Moore, to Benjamin Ng of the Wah Mee massacre, to Kandahar massacre culprit Sgt....
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Lawyer Natalie Goldberg leaves her job in Manhattan and takes the position of prosecuting attorney in Macon, Georgia, where she dwells on her past relationship with a married man, ruminates about her father's disapproval of her career, helps a colleague's abused sister, and tries a capital case--even though she is anti-death penalty.
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Miami attorney Gail Conner has her own practice and a wonderful new fiance, Anthony Her happiness is put in jeopardy when she discovers her Cuban-born fiance is tied to her first client through his past involvement in a revolutionary movement, which threatens to destroy his family and Gail's future.
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As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to do good and do well at the same time. We live in an...
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Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the...
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A mesmerizing tale of deceit and criminal stealth in the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical research from Phillip Margolin, the New York Times bestselling master of the courtroom thriller.
Daniel Ames is living the American dream. Though born into poverty and living on the streets by the age of fifteen, Daniel has overcome every obstacle -- and now is an associate at Reed, Briggs, Portland's most prestigious law firm, earning more money than he...
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Jack Tobin, a Florida trial lawyer, is dedicated to ending capital punishment one prisoner at a time. Jack is convinced that doomed convict Henry Wilson is innocent, but can he delay execution and get Henry a new trial in time?Benny Avrile is a small-time crook with his eye on an oilman's big billfold. But as he makes his move, a shot rings out and the oilman falls dead; Benny blacks out. Just when his fate is all but sealed, an old friend from Jack's...
11) Black horizon
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"It's devu, with a big twist. Three summers after the biggest man-made environmental disaster in history, millions of gallons of oil are again spewing from a hole in the ocean floor. But this rig explosion was in Cuban waters, just 50 miles away from Florida, and the situation is complex. The consortium doing the work is state-owned Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian, controlled by a mineral lease from the Cuban government. And the Cubans not only refuse...
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"[A] tight, twisty thriller….Hums along like a sizzling fastball thrown straight and sure."
-Providence Journal-Bulletin
Bestselling author James Grippando is back with a gripping stand-alone thriller. Intent to Kill electrifies from the first inning on-as a fallen baseball star-turned-sports radio "shock jock" tries to expose a conspiracy and outwit a killer. Crackling with Grippando's trademark suspense, ingenious plotting, and unforgettable...
13) Critical mass
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Lawyer Joselyn Cole, having moved to the San Juan Islands of Washington State in search of a quieter life, helps businessman Dean Belden set up a business in the islands only to discover that her client is involved in a very dangerous enterprise.
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Miama attorney Gail Connor has just taken on the biggest case of her career, but what begins as a suspected forgery of a wealthy woman's will turns out to mask a brutal murder...and what looked like a greedy family's battle over an inheritance turns out to be a complex and monumentally brazen scheme that involves every layer and dimension of Miami's multicultural worlds.
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When a world-famous law professor is accused of murdering one of his students, he asks his most promising and ambitious former law students, Casey Jordan, to defend him, but Casey soon learns that the teacher she has always admired is hiding some deadly secrets.
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The book offers biographical sketches of twelve of the most prominent Russian advocates of the rule of law who can be described as having fundamentally changed Russian law, state, and society. Pavel Krasheninnikov (born 1964) is a prominent Russian politician, state official, and professor of law.
He studied at Sverdlovsk School of Law and then did graduate work there. He subsequently taught at the Ural State Law University. In the 1990s he served...
17) Rage of angels
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Jennifer Parker, a brilliant and beautiful young lawyer, survives shattering career setbacks to become one of the most successful defense attorneys in America. Jennifer's strength and beauty win the love of two powerful men but earn her the implacable hatred of a third. Adam Warner, a man of integrity born to lead his country, is tied by honor and obligation to his wife. Mafia boss Michael Moretti nearly destroys Jennifer's career before it begins....
18) Perfect match
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Jodi Picoult is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting...
19) Puppet
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Amanda Travis is a high-powered, twenty-eight-year-old lawyer whose greatest likes are spinning classes at her Palm Beach gym and a compliant jury. As for the things she hates, they include nicknames, the color pink, clients who don't follow her advice ... and memories. Unfortunately, running from her past becomes a lot harder when one of her ex-husbands calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed...
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