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22) The racketeer
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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...
25) Malice prepense
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Teddy Wendover, a twenty-eight-year-old who suffered an accident that left him at the mental age of eight, is acquitted of charges that he killed the teacher who was in charge on the day he was injured fifteen years earlier, but then suspicion falls on Teddy's father, Ted, and it is up to Barbara Holloway to defend him.
27) Moment of truth
Author
Language
English
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Description
Attorney Mary DiNunzio doesn't believe that her newest client murdered his wife, even though he says he did, but before she can convince him to tell her the truth, she must figure out why he is trying to protect the true killer.
Author
Publisher
Mango Media / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"True tales of trials and errors over the long, strange course of legal history, from the authors of Doctors Killed George Washington. Did you know... If a husband in ancient Rome caught his wife drinking wine, he had the legal right to kill her. Gandhi, John Cleese, and Julio Iglesias were all lawyers before moving on to other jobs. The ice cream sundae was invented as part of an effort to get around the law. The Scots outlawed golf in 1457--and...
29) Fortune's hand
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After graduating from law school, Robb McDaniel joins a small, prestigious law firm and marries the senior partner's daughter, leaving behind his high school sweetheart, but as the years pass and Robb's life becomes more complicated, he begins to regret giving up the simple, small town life he could have had with the only woman he ever really loved.
30) Lady killer
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"Mary DiNunzio is strong, smart, and she's got plenty of attitude. In recent years, she's become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates, but the last person she expects to walk into her office is Trish Gambone, her high school rival. Trish's life has taken a horrifying turn. She's terrified of her live-in boyfriend, who's an abusive, gun-toting drug dealer for the South Philly mob. There's only one problem--Mary remembers the guy, too,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School, tracing her refugee parents' harrowing experiences in the Eritrea-Ethiopian war and her development of innovations that enabled her remarkable achievements.
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...
34) Tuesday's child
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Language
English
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Description
Mikala Aulani, an attorney ready to retire, is visited by the man who admits killing one of her former client's parents and she must help free the wrongly accused woman.
35) Th1rte3n
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The serial killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury. "Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me." --Lee Child "A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines Cavanagh's authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often." --Michael Connelly It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed...
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick not only deals with her career but also with keeping her family together as she provides a stable home for her two children.
38) Sycamore row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
39) The judge.
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
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