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Buffa, D. W. The Legacy
New York, New York, U.S.A. Warner Books, Incorporated 2002 0446527386 / 9780446527385 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition - Appears unread - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $25.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 456 pages - A former defense lawyer, D. W. Buffa has earned a reputation for writing taut courtroom dramas -- such as The Judgment, his 2001 Edgar nominee for Best Novel -- marked by a highly effective use of realistic legal maneuvers and litigation tactics to produce tension. In The Legacy, he once again thrusts his protagonist, Portland attorney Joseph Antonelli, into an absorbing, complex case, one that will lead to terrifying revelations and a trail of corruption, old world money, destroyed innocence, and plenty of dirty politics. Jeremy Fullerton, a California senator with presidential ambitions, is shot in the front seat of his car after giving a fiery speech. Jamal Washington, a young black medical student, is arrested fleeing the scene and charged with murder despite his protests that he was only trying to aid the dying senator. Enter Antonelli, who is willing to stake his reputation -- and possibly his life -- to clear Washington in a case that is bound to uncover secrets a lot of powerful people would prefer to leave buried. Eventually Antonelli tracks the intricate machinations behind the murder to a grand conspiracy in Italy, where the outcome is something completely unexpected. Buffa uses a sure and steady hand to tell an elaborate tale that moves from the modern-day courts back to a cabal formed decades earlier. Thought-provoking and filled with intricate twists, The Legacy offers fleshed-out characters and a fulfilling story that digs deep into the very ideals of our judicial and political systems.
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Chastain, Thomas Perry Mason in the Case of Too Many Murders
William Morrow & Co 1989 0688071643 / 9780688071646 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - 239 pages - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - Price inside dustcover: $14.95 -
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Dershowitz, Alan M. The Advocate's Devil
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Warner Books Inc 1994 0446517593 / 9780446517591 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Price inside dustcover: $22.95 - This is a story of Joe Campbell, a handsome and charismatic basketball star with the New York Knicks, known as the " White Knight," who is accused of raping a woman after she invites him up to her hotel room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The athlete engages a prominent local attorney named Abe Ringel to defend him. From the initial facts of the case, Abe believes he has found an easy victory to stop what has been a recent losing streak in the courtroom. As the case unfolds, and the legal defense team performs it's own investigation, Abe's associates become concerned that Campbell is concealing facts that may show him to be guilty and dangerous. Abe disagrees. To so help sort through the issues, Abe calls upon his mentor, an aging lawyer and talmudic scholar named Haskel Levine. Together, these men explore the ethical dilemmas by a defense attorney who wants to win his case and serve justice at the same time.
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Friedman, Philip Grand Jury: A Novel
Donald I Fine 1996 1556114567 / 9781556114564 Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $24.95 - Only mark in book is previous owner's initials in book front - on blank page. - The bestselling author of Inadmissible Evidence takes you behind the scenes of secret grand jury proceedings in this intricate tale of corruption and conspiracy on two continents. Featuring the personal odyssey of two jurors, the fast-paced story sweeps through the intimate streets of New York's Chinatown and court district, speeds to the sleek high-rises of Hong Kong and the blood-stained highways of mainland China, and reaches all the way to the top of U.S. and Chinese officialdom.
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Gardner, Erle Stanley A Perry Mason Casebook
William Morrow 1993 0895775255 / 9780895775252 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Grisham, John The King of Torts
New York, NY, U.S.A. Doubleday Publishing 2003 0385508042 / 9780385508049 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
"The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week." As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.
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Grisham, John The King of Torts
New York, NY, U.S.A. Doubleday Publishing 2003 0385508042 / 9780385508049 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Near-new condition - Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated First Edition - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. "The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week." As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.
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Grisham, John The Last Juror
Doubleday 2004 0385510438 / 9780385510431 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Like-new condition - Appears unread - Stated First Edition - price inside dustcover: $27.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - 355 pages - "In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper." "The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison." But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
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Grisham, John The Last Juror
Doubleday 2004 0385510438 / 9780385510431 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Nearnew condition . Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $27.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 355 pages. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. "In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper." "The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison." But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
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Grisham, John The Rainmaker
New York, NY, U.S.A. Doubleday Publishing 1995 0385424736 / 9780385424738 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $25.95 - In this courtroom thriller, a young man barely out of law school finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America—and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam.... In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. Rudy soon realizes that the Blacks have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen—and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys—and powerful industries—in America.
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Grisham, John The Street Lawyer
New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday 1998 0385490992 / 9780385490993 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $27.95 - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - John Grisham's ninth legal thriller opens with a bang, literally, when a grizzled and fragrant homeless man wanders into a Washington, D. C., law firm, takes nine attorneys hostage at gunpoint, and appropriates a vacant conference room to lecture on the importance of charitable contributions. In the aftermath of the morning's unscheduled discussions, the 800-lawyer firm of Drake & Sweeney survives, but their uninvited guest does not. Michael Brock, one of the firm's rising young stars, comes away from his brush with death with a troubled conscience and a mental legal pad filled with unanswered questions. Who was this man, and what did he really want? Michael decides to do some digging, and learns that his captor was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. But then he digs a little deeper and finds a dirty secret, a secret that involves Drake & Sweeney. Disillusioned by his discoveries, Michael abruptly abandons the fast track and quits the firm, taking a top-secret file with him. He lands on the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer...and a thief.
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Grisham, John The Summons
Doubleday 2002 0385503822 / 9780385503822 First Edition Hard Cover As New Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
"Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep." "And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse." "With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study." "Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray." And perhaps someone else.
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Grisham, John The Summons
Doubleday 2002 0385503822 / 9780385503822 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
"Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep." "And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse." "With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study." "Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray." And perhaps someone else.
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James, P. D. A Certain Justice
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred A, Knopf 1997 0375401091 / 9780375401091 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - P.D. James was awarded the 1999 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. In a masterful new Adam Dalgliesh mystery, P.D. James enters the labyrinthine world of the law, forging a deeply compelling human drama from the complex passions that lie behind both murder and justice.
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Margolin, Phillip The Associate
HarperCollins 2001 0060196254 / 9780060196257 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $26.00 - 292 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Daniel Ames is an associate at Reed, Briggs, Portland's most prestigious law firm, earning more money than he ever imagined possible. When a charismatic civil litigator sues the firm's biggest client for manufacturing a drug that he claims causes unspeakable birth defects, Daniel is certain the claim has no merit. But as he begins to investigate, his world comes tumbling down around him. His work is sabotaged, he's accused of professional incompetence, and he's fired. Twelve hours later he is arrested for murder. Daniel scrambles to clear his name and save his reputation — and in the process unearths a trail of deceit. But someone doesn't want this trail explored, and Daniel becomes the target of a vicious killer who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being revealed
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Margolin, Phillip The Burning Man
New York, NY, U.S.A. Doubleday Publishing 1996 0385480539 / 9780385480536 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses to carry on with the case against his father's wishes. In his zeal to prove himself, Peter neglects his client and ends up losing everything - the case, his job, and his father. Unemployed and disinherited, Peter takes the only job he is offered - that of a public defender in a small Oregon town. He hopes that if he can make good there, he can reinstate himself in his father's good graces. But his ambition again gets the best of him when he takes on a death-penalty case, representing a mentally retarded man accused of the brutal hatchet murder of a college coed. He's in way over his head, and it's only when Peter realizes that his greed and his ego may end up killing his client that he begins to understand what it really takes to be a good lawyer - and to become a man.
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O'Shaughnessy, Perri Writ of Execution
New York, U.S.A. Delacorte Press 2001 0385334834 / 9780385334839 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - First Edition ( July, 2002 ) - Price insid edustcover: $24.95 - 403 Pages - "In the mountain resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases, the kind that can make - or break - her one-woman law practice. Her latest case begins in the middle of a summer night when she is called away from a very personal visit to her investigator Paul van Wagoner's hotel room to meet with a desperate new client at her office who gives her name as Jessie Potter. The frightened young woman has just hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity." "With time running out, Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true identity a secret. Unfortunately, powerful interests have lined up to grab the money. The gaming commission thinks the jackpot was rigged. The man sitting on the seat just before the jackpot hit says it's his, and he doesn't mind going outside the law to get it. And the wealthy man stalking Nina's client has retained an unscrupulous local lawyer, Jeff Riesner, to attack the jackpot winnings using a legal maneuver called a Writ of Execution. The odds of Jessie ever collecting are starting to look hopeless." "For Nina, what began as a fight for an underdog in federal court soon escalates into something very different and far more dangerous. Jessie has a secret, and she needs that money for a very good reason. By the time Nina discovers that Jessie is withholding vital information, it might be too late for her client and even for Nina herself. Because somewhere in the darkening Tahoe night, people are dying. A cold-blooded, obsessed killer will stop at nothing - including execution-style murder - to get that jackpot in a case where the Writ of Execution has become more than a legal maneuver; it's death warrant."
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Reuland, Rob Hollowpoint
Random House Inc 2001 0375505016 / 9780375505010 First Edition Hard Cover As New Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $24.95 - Stated First Edition - First-time novelist Reuland walks a fine line in this bold, blackly comedic thriller, painting a gritty, poetic picture of ghetto life yet indulging his self-involved hero and stumbling over details at crucial junctures. Andrew "Gio" Giobberti, a young Brooklyn assistant district attorney, is haunted by his role in his five-year-old daughter's death a year before; he failed to fasten her seat belt, and she was killed in a minor car accident. Abandoned by his wife, Gio wanders through drunken one-night stands and days filled with the routine prosecution of killers, rapists and narcotics dealers. But when the case of Kayla Harris--a 14-year-old shot point-blank in her bed--comes along, Gio can't help drawing personal parallels. While he prefers to see drug dealer Lamar "LL" Lamb as the murderer, the evidence pushes him to investigate Kayla's junkie mother, Nicole Carbon, as the accidental killer of her own daughter. Reuland takes chances in depicting the chauvinistic habits of his protagonist, who abandons one of his many office conquests in a bar after a tryst in the bathroom, and is permanently sunk in a self-pitying haze. Still, his irreverent take on antihero Gio is a refreshing dash of candor in the genre, granting credibility to a story whose racing pace has an addictive effect. Reuland--himself a Brooklyn ADA--describes the Brooklyn Cypress Hills projects in convincing detail, and he captures the dialogue of its crack-addicted dwellers with a sharp and sympathetic ear. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Turow, Scott Personal Injuries
New York, NY, U.S.A. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1999 0374281947 / 9780374281946 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a successful personal injury lawyer with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves) dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds that make their way into the pockets of the judges who decide Robbie's cases.. "Robbie is apprehended, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to "wear a wire" as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie's charms. And she carries secrets of her own.. "As the law tightens its net, Robbie's and Evon's stories converge.
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Wachtler, Sol; Gould, David Blood Brothers
New York, New York, U.S.A. New Millenium 2003 1932407014 / 9781932407013 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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