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John C. Sullivan, Jr. was a practicing attorney in Jackson, Mississippi for 58 years and a peer rated AV Preeminent Attorney by Martindale Hubble for many of those years. He is an Eagle Scout and a Vigil member of the Order
of the Arrow. He built a rustic cabin in the woods in Madison County, Mississippi at age15 and hunted, fished and trapped selling his pelts for extra spending money and was President of the Student Body of Jackson Central High...
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In the early 1960s, Jerry Kraig, an idealistic Cleveland lawyer, was retained by his boyhood mentor, Reuben Sturman, later known as the Czar of Pornography. Kraig was his First Amendment Coordinator. Little did Kraig know his representation would lead him into a nightmare legal battle resulting in Kraig's imprisonment to defraud the Federal Government of Sturman's taxes. The Kraig's were an average suburban family who had everything and lost it all....
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No-one knows more about children in trouble than Barbara Holborow. In this best-selling book, Barbara draws on the knowledge and wisdom acquired in her many years as a Children's Court magistrate, where she presided over the best and the worst of children, and those dealing with them. She tells the story of her own life as well, and in these pages there is a wealth of practical advice for those who want the best out of the most valuable thing in our...
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Before taking her place as the second woman on the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quietly led a revolution and forever changed life in America for both men and women. Reserved and quiet, she didn't set out to be a trailblazer, but there was something in her way: the law. Hundreds of years of legal precedent, a line of devastating Supreme Court cases, and countless statutes depriving women of equal citizenship and keeping them...
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Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of...
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At twenty-one, she married her soulmate. By thirty, she had four children. By forty, she was a practising lawyer. At fifty, she was appointed a Superior Court Judge, a position she occupied for over twenty-four years. BOLD DECISIONS is a story of how the author used those roles to champion the disabled and the underdog in a world much in need of a kindred spirit.
In clear, compelling language, Honourable Sandra Chapnik tells you how she overcame...
88) Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution
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Three decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed.
This definitive study of Black's origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice's character, thought processes, and instincts.
Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century...
89) Una vida de ley
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Tempranamente él supo que su vida sería en pos de un objetivo. Para ello, transitó los más diversos caminos, plagados de anécdotas sobre aventuras, logros y fracasos.
En este relato de su vida, y más allá de su diversificación, el autor se propone mostrar cómo, desde un principio, intenta arribar a la meta que se fijó.
En el escrito, señala las penurias, fracasos, enfermedades y escollos que debió pasar. También, con la lectura de su...
91) They Had to Die That Night: The Inside Story Of The Investigation and Trial Of Herbert F. Steigler
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In the early morning hours of October 19, 1968, a fire spread rapidly through a suburban home in Wilmington, Delaware, killing three sleeping victims: a six-year-old girl and a retired couple. The murderer spread ten containers of gasoline around the first floor of the home and up the stairs onto the second floor. The murderer deliberately blocked any escape from the second floor where the victims were sleeping. A fourth potential victim escaped by...
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From his Louisville Law Office, in the years between World Wars I and II, William Marshall Bullitt (1873-1957) rose to be one of the nation's most recognized attorneys. He and two of his New York friends dominated the argument docket of the United States Supreme Court, leaving a record number of appearances which survives today. Felix Frankfurter, Wild Bill Donovan, Booth Tarkington, John Foster Dulles and many other prominent people of the Twentieth...
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In the tradition of true crime bestsellers by Alan Dershowitz and Dominick Dunne, Mickey Sherman delivers a powerful and extraordinarily candid account of his legal career that gives the readers an all-access backstage pass to not only the sausage factory that is the criminal justice system but the "big cases" we have all lived with on TV. Sherman started his career as a public defender, then as a prosecutor, and later became a criminal defense attorney...
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Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humor, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in the top levels of our justice system.
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This memoir will give you not only a sense of Graten Beaver's life, but also of life in his time. Rooted in a close entrepreneurial family in small-town Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s, he learned early the importance of hard work, education, and service. He started out sweeping the sidewalk in front of his parent's grocery store, worked his way through college, and progressed into a multi-dimensional law career. In this book you'll read about how...
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A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom "game" and a career spent defending the guilty As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman's duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented....
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This is. Story of survival and recovery against all odds. Jim was raised. Dirt poor on a marginal farm in Iowa. Became severely disabled right after high school from polio, went to college and law school.
At state expense, was appointed Assistant U.S. District Attorney by Robert Kennedy, list his wife in a car accident, was an alcoholic for 25 years, got sober and became a superior court judge. Now sober 47 years.
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Thurgood Marshall was one of the original forces behind the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP), one of the organizations that helped to advance the rights of African Americans in the 20th century. His pursuit of civil rights reached a high point when, as a lawyer, he helped the NAACP win Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in education in American public schools. Afterward,...
99) Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes
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In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth defects of many other children.
It was a battle that nearly everyone but attorney Jim Ferraro deemed unwinnable. After all, it involved one of the world's most...
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Memories clearly start from the age of five to the year 2020 and the COVID-19 outbreak. Robert was introduced to the outdoor life by his father and brother. Athletics consumed a huge portion of his life. His first hunt in Alaska during the fall of 1981 was a huge success and planted the seed for more adventure. Reading the book Surviving the Journey is suspense-filled, taking you to many places in the world. It is a fun read you will enjoy.
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