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Series
Widows volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine: a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life. Camille: a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger. Meredith: a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner....
63) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Attorney Michael Clayton is a 'fixer' the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life --including Michael's."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"Earthjustice has represented thousands of clients in court, from Native American tribes to hunters and fishermen, from the Maine Lobsterman's Association to the Gray Wolf Committee of Idaho, from People Against Chlordane (New York) to the Hana Community Association of Hawai��, from Friends of the Sea Otter (California) to Friends of the Horsepasture (North Carolina). This book details a handful of important cases Earthjustice has pursued in the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades"--
66) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
Author
Series
Finley Anderson Tanner mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The fourth novel in the F.A.T. series finds Finley Tanner facing two impossible tasks: track down a missing lawyer from her firm, and find a date for her sister's wedding. Finley may have bitten off more than she can chew when she discovers that the lawyer is not who she claims to be--and may be implicated in the unsolved murder of a pageant queen. On top of that, Finley's taking her boss, Tony, to her sister's wedding...even though she still has...
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Disc 1: Darrow & Darrow: Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Joanna, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter, Louise.
Disc 2: In the Key of Murder: A simple offer of legal advice turns into the biggest challenge of Claire's legal career when Miles' younger half-sister is arrested...