Tug of War is the first book of its kind. Written by a sitting family court judge in layman’s language, it demystifies complex family law concepts and procedures, clearly explains how family court works, and gives parents...
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Author:Brownstone, HarveySummary: -
Author:Coakley, MarkSummary:The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye–opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip...
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Author:Iles, GregSummary:Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's...
- Author:McInnes, CraigSummary:
An in-depth look at the life and career of retired judge and conflict-of-interest commissioner Ted Hughes, whose unflinching integrity earned him the reputation as Canada’s moral compass.Throughout his sixty-year career, Ted Hughes has...
- Author:Gardam, JaneSummary:
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where...
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Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.
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Author:Nicole WatsonSummary:Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane's West End marked the city's boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark. When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar development, the...
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Author:Batten, JackSummary:Classic Batten—on the rocks. Jazz. Cocaine. Vietnamese triads. Dope-dealing yuppie lawyers. Jack Batten's got them all in his second mystery novel starring Crang, the unconventional criminal lawyer with a taste for straight vodka and a...
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Author:Appel, Jacob M.Summary:Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author’s quirky family, his Jewish heritage and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M. Appel’s recollections and insights, informed and filtered by...
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary:Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about...
- Author:Locke, M. LouisaSummary:
It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the...
- Author:Fordham, JudithSummary:
The true story of Judith Fordham's journey through the legal system to become a successful barrister and Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Murdoch University.
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Author:Reynolds, BillSummary:The man who gave it all away at age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode--Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling...
- Author:Stevenson, BryanSummary:
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
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Author:Sakamoto, MarkSummary:The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War—and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene...
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Author:Silver Dranoff, LindaSummary:An eyewitness account of the revolution in women’s rights under the law.
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Author:Martini, SteveSummary:Madriani is faced with daunting ballistics evidence: a so-called "double tap"-two bullet wounds tightly grouped in the victim's head, shots that could have been made only by a crack marksman. Paul's client, Emiliano Ruiz, is an enigma-a...
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Author:Patterson, James, Roughan, HowardSummary:Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons: the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of...
- Author:Singer, RandySummary:
Lawyer and ex-convict Landon Reed, desperate to prove his worth, takes a high-profile murder case, but when his boss and other lawyers in the firm are murdered, Landon must find the killer before he become the next target.
- Author:Thomas, JodiSummary:
When Emily starts a writing group in her little town of Harmony, Texas, its members are given a chance to learn to write while reexamining their lives. But when a person from her past appears at the library, Emily is faced with more...
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