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41) Proof of Intent
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Okay, so your client is a liar. Does that make him a murderer?
In the dark hours of morning, Charley Sloan arrives at the palatial home of Miles Dane, celebrated novelist from the Detroit suburb of Pickeral Point, to find Dane's wife murdered in their bed.
Dane tells Charley he was downstairs working. Heard nothing, saw nothing.
The police arrive. Dane tells his story again. Only, this time there's a mysterious intruder fleeing down the hallway,...
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A generation ago, all of the big questions concerning religious freedom in America seemed to have been resolved. At the very least, the lines of division between proponents of a wall of separation between church and state and advocates of religious accommodation seemed clearly drawn. Since then, increasing religious diversity and changing functions of government have raised new questions about what it means to allow the free exercise of religion....
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Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of Law at Columbia University. Named to the first group of MacArthur Fellows, he is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Among his previous books are The Anthropology of Justice, The Justice of Islam, and The Culture of Islam.
Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered...
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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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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...
46) See You in Court
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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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He used to relish putting suspects in jail, but in his latest case, Luke Garrison-now a defense attorney-will stop at nothing to save a man accused of murder During a sleepover with her two friends, Emma goes missing. The owners of a local news network, her parents have money and power. As the police scour the city, Emma's father offers a $250,000 reward for his daughter's safe return. Eight days after the abduction, two hikers find her. Emma has...
48) Condemned
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A high-intensity light into the dark, dangerous corners of international drug trafficking-with a bizarre twist The rampant avarice and treachery in New York, Leningrad, Romania, and Colombia spill over from both sides of the law-with another bizarre twist. In Condemned, Colombian drug lords, Russian thugs, Mafia soldiers, street junkies, law enforcement, rampant corruption, behind-the-scenes courtroom intrigue, jail cells, luxury cars, millions...
49) The Judgment
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The death of innocence
In a rural area outside of Detroit, bodies are being found in the snow. One after another. Neatly washed, wrapped in plastic, methodically laid out like sleeping angels. And very, very young.
The birth of evil
Forty-miles away and at the other end of the world, an honest cop, the deputy chief of police, has been framed for a corruption charge. In a world of big-city politics, he wants ace lawyer Charley Sloan to get him off.
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50) 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...
51) Star Witness
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Attorney Joseph Antonelli tackles a case overflowing with greed and glamour, moviemaking, and murder in this new thriller in the Edgar Award-nominated series. Star Witness is about a man on trial for murder-a man recognized as one of the film industry's most successful writer/ directors, a man of almost mythic drive and talent, and someone who looks more guilty with every passing witness. Attorney Joseph Antonelli-suave, philosophical, fearless-takes...
52) Against the Wind
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Forced out of his firm, a hard-living attorney takes on one final, highly charged case-defending a notorious gang of bikers against murder charges A few years ago, Will Alexander was the top criminal lawyer in Santa Fe, with a thriving practice, a famously flamboyant courtroom style, and a marriage that landed him on the front page of the society section. Now, though, his wife has left him, and his constant boozing and womanizing have put his career...
53) Code 13
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THE U.S. NAVY'S BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF DRONES LANDS TWO NAVY JAG OFFICERS IN THE GUN SIGHTS OF A KILLER.
Caroline is just getting her feet wet at the prestigious Code 13, but is thankful for at least one familiar face-her old flame, P.J. MacDonald. He loops her into the assignment he is currently working on-the legality of a proposed drone-sharing contract with Homeland Security that would allow the sale of drones for domestic surveillance....
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From the best-selling author of The Defense, a spellbinding sequel: The Prosecution.
It was a one-way ticket out of his self-imposed isolation and into the courtroom on the right side of justice. It was a favor for his old friend Judge Horace Woolner. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to serve as special prosecutor in a case against a man sworn to uphold the law, Marshall Goodwin, the chief deputy district attorney accused of having his former wife...
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A chessboard of violence. On one side was the most powerful Sicilian family in New York, with an interest in every form of illegal moneymaking in the metropolis. On the other side was a ruthless and determined black organization intent on carving out its own underworld empire. And the key piece of the gigantic game of murder and double cross being played out throughout the city was the Don himself, Sal Angeletti, his life hanging by a thread over...
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1926. Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was the former assistant district attorney in New York City. His interactions with clients, together with his experiences in the courtroom, provided the material for the more than 250 short stories and novels he would write during his lifetime. Train wrote dozens of stories about fictional lawyer Ephraim Tutt in the Saturday Evening Post. He also coauthored two science fiction novels with eminent physicist Robert...
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Just how tough are the country's most prestigious law schools? Most alumni would answer with stories of humiliating "Socratic dialogue failures" in the classroom and all-night, caffeine-fueled cram sessions.
Until now, the traditional concept of the law-school experience was the one presented in Scott Turow's One-L, published in 1977, a dark description of his first year at Harvard Law School. Twenty-four years later things have definitely changed....
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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...
59) 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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Danny Chaisson's latest case is bid-rigging. But, as his investigation proceeds, a gathering storm named Katrina blasts his world apart.
Surrounded by death and the destruction of the city he loves, Danny searches for one man who'd trusted Chaisson to guard his identity when he agreed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating corruption in the city's construction industry. But, someone has leaked the identity of this crucial witness, and...
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