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1) Final appeal
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A criminal defense lawyer and her firm's newest trainee untangle a maze of evidence when their client is charged with murder, having spent ten days in his apartment with two corpses and acting like nothing happened when the police arrive.
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"A workaholic lawyer forgets to update her emergency contact information and finds herself reluctantly reunited with her ex-husband on calamity-filled road trip ... just as he's getting ready to propose to someone else."--.
Katherine, an ambitious NYC attorney, gets diagnosed with a concussion and must be monitored for 48 hours to make sure it doesn't get worse. Unfortunately, she forgot to update her emergency contact so the person they call is...
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"An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the...
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Tepetitán, Macuspana, Tabasco, México; 13 de noviembre de 1953) presidente de México (2018-2024) claramente ha intentado consolidarse como un dictador tropical, en su intento ha asesinado de forma sistemática a niñas, niños, adolescentes y adultos mayores por su necedad al negarse a comprar medicamentos para la mayoría de los tipos de cáncer, medicamentos retrovirales para personas enfermas de VIH y otros medicamentos...
9) Betrayal
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"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon, but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family . . . and Kerrigan's...
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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century-how it came to be, and how it worked-particularly in the American South.
Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South's earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected the shape...
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Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate. And as the attorney...
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"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
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An Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks...
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No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives.
Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. And indeed, his power brokering, love of glamour, controversy, and notoriety made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From his role in the Rosenbergs' trial and as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Senate hearings through his...
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A Poignant Memoir of Inspiration and Wisdom
Judie Dziezak is no stranger to adversity. Those who know her as an attorney, technology writer, or scientist see a soft-spoken, pleasant, competent professional who courageously stands up for what's right even when she is the only one standing. What they don't know is that growing up, she wrestled with a tumultuous crescendo of abuse from her mentally ill mother....
17) Goodbye girl
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A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck’s client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.
Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won’t stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she’s the most underpaid superstar on the planet...
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Hook, Line, and Legal Briefs: An Intellectual Property Lawyer's Pursuit of Fish and Fulfillment. Journey through the riveting pages of Part-Time Lawyer, Full-Time Fisherman, an inspiring memoir that masterfully juxtaposes the seemingly disparate worlds of intellectual property law and recreational fishing. Chart the life of Russ Orkin, commencing with his Eastern European grandparents' hopeful immigration in the 1880s, leading up to his illustrious...
19) Man of Ideas
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The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era.
With “Scalia: Rise to Greatness”, 1936—1986, the opening installment in a two-volume biography, acclaimed reporter and bestselling historian James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the life of Justice Antonin...
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The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost thirty years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering dedication to the Constitution, and his blistering dissents defined his leadership role on the court and inspired new generations of policymakers and legal minds.
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