Legal English

To Kill a Mockingbird meets White Fragility in this fast-paced legal thriller set in a small East Texas town. “I was seventy years old before I realized I was a racist.” So begins attorney R. E. Jackson’s intensely personal warfare against the powers that mete out their rigged brand of justice in East Texas.

Vicious felons are going free. Can one determined attorney stop them from slaughtering more innocents? Sharp small-town prosecutor Mara Brent has a heart as big as it is tough. Smack in the middle of a scandal surrounding her corrupt ex-boss, she works relentlessly to put things back in order. But when past gross negligence threatens to free convicted criminals, Mara fears her tight-knit community will be plagued by sadistic serial killers. Will Mara put the brutal murderers back behind bars before she has innocent blood on her hands?

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line.

A dead man floating in the bay. A client concealing the truth. An anti-submarine drone that could start an all-out war. Attorney Bryce Seagraves has an impossible case. A defense contractor accuses his new client of espionage. She denies stealing the plans for a top-secret drone. Her boss is murdered. The last person to speak with the victim was Seagraves, and now he is a suspect. Finding the killer would clear not only his client, but himself as well. Before the trial, Seagraves spars with federal investigators, aggressive lawyers, and covert agents. In court, he can never be sure if his ...

Third in the Brad Norton Series. Criminal defence barrister Brad Norton is briefed to defend a wife accused of murdering her rich husband. The prosecution case looks water-tight. The trial judge is his arch-enemy. He must unmask the real killer during the trial. The final verdict could decide whether he takes silk. Another fast-paced courtroom drama set at the Sydney Bar.

Even though he escaped the gas chambers, he was never truly free. In occupied Poland, there are whispers of a terrifying darkness in the northern forests. When a young Lodzi Ashstein learns the horrifying truth about the Treblinka extermination camp, he is kidnapped and tormented by a senior SS officer, Janich Heiss. After a prisoner uprising, Heiss disappears into the woods and Lodzi is left with nothing but his nightmares and the eternal scars of a survivor. More than 70 years later, Heiss has been mysteriously murdered, and Lodzi is accused of a crime of revenge. When attorney Thaddeus ...

Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family’s failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family’s reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career.

At Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, we have heard a lot of nasty things about lawyers. Some of them have been pretty funny. So we decided to start collecting them. So far I believe we have a compilation of the world's great lawyer jokes. So we called it The World's Greatest Lawyer Jokes. Catchy huh!

SEVEN naughty tales of cherries popped, bellies bumped, and bareback fertile firsts! Collection includes: TRIPLE Bumping Their Bellies My Coach Took My Cherry and Then Filled My Womb! Suckling His Neighbor Oops! He Bumped the Cougar! Pregnant... by Aliens! BUMPED at the Carnival Taking Her Cherry in the Snow! "So tight. So v*rgin. And begging to be broken in." "Baby, I'll be so gentle. You're going to remember your first time for a long time. I'll make sure of that."

Jimmy and Trent return in the sequel to My Stepdad’s Wedding. “Two weeks ago, I hooked up with my stepdad, Trent Atlas, the night before he married my mother. Now he’s back in town from their honeymoon and has offered to take me up to North Carolina for a trip to his father’s place. Trent Atlas’ dad is one of the nicest men I know. His name is Frederick and he’s like a grandpa to me, in the way Trent is like a dad, even though we’re not related. My step-Grandpa has taken me on fishing trips before. He sends me cards for my birthday every year. Trent’s family gets along well ...

Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim's family, Mickey's case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it.

The End of Roe v. Wade examines the systematic destruction of legal abortion on a state-by-state basis, as well as detailing the Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to end access to abortion and contraception on a federal level. This timely and urgent audiobook also offers a harrowing glimpse into what a post-Roe America will look like, previewing the next major battle over abortion rights - pitting those who chose to end their pregnancies outside of the legal medical system against those who will prosecute them.

Award-winning author Michael Pickford brings us a delightful new series about a teen lawyer with Holmes-like powers of observation. Samuel Hickson moved from Chicago to Tennessee to attend college. He sought a new roommate because he couldn’t bear to live another week with a bunch of rowdy party animals. Samuel’s neighbor introduced him to a strange young man named Zeblon Jack. Zeblon was a child prodigy who by the age of eighteen had completed law school and passed the bar. He was also a loose cannon with no qualms about breaking the law to bring out the truth. On their first meeting, ...

From the author of The Circle, an Amazon psychological thriller, comes Imperfect Crimes. (Full Book) Uncle Jack, Botanist, The Bullet and Book Club. Synopsis: In the first installment of Imperfect Crimes, Grace Sanders is a young lawyer fighting for civil rights in Austin, Texas. In her first case for a legal association that reviews life-sentence and death-row convictions, she is out to prove the innocence of her client in what looked like a cut-and-dried rape and murder. Fifteen years ago, a man entered a house in a quiet neighborhood, murdered the grandmother, and then raped the ...

Six Mitch Turner legal thriller short stories in one book!

Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice, said goodbye to his parents, and moved three hundred miles away to a self-imposed exile. His father died two years ago, and now Brent’s coming back to take care of his ailing mother, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as an assistant general counsel.

The law touches almost every aspect of the relationship between employers and their employees. Hundreds of articles are written every year about legal developments that impact this relationship. This book is a compilation of the best of these articles that were written between March 1, 2013, and February 28, 2014. This time frame was selected because it includes end-of-year articles that review key changes in the law during 2013 and beginning-of-year articles that cover trends and action items for 2014. The articles in this collection were written by leading US employment law experts. In ...

“Ms. Rabi, as usual, had me laughing out loud. I highly recommend this to all romantics at heart.” Amazon Reviewer. Gabriel is a high-powered attorney, with a beautiful wife and two adorable children. He has achieved success in record time, carved a name for himself in the legal arena, and can finally enjoy the fruits of his labor. There is just one problem; Gabriel is bored of everything. Every. Goddamn. Thing. So, while on a business trip to Vegas (Business in Vegas? Yeah right!) he encounters the blonde and voluptuous Sinead. Not only is she sexy, but she is uninhibited and totally ...

A teenage girl is boldly kidnapped from her school, minutes after her mother dropped her off. While a frenzied search begins, bringing together the entire police force of the city that never sleeps, for Detectives Baxter and Holt, this isn’t a crime like any other - it is personal. Detective Holt is faced with an inconceivable decision: Sacrifice everything he holds sacred or jeopardize the life of an innocent girl. But the man holding all the cards in this game of life and death isn’t willing to negotiate; he’s only willing to kill.

Zoe Paul never had much. Abandoned as an infant, her grandmother Marilyn raised her, until a tragic accident left Zoe all alone. Now, 16 years later, Zoe discovers an unclaimed check worth millions among her grandmother’s things. With no explanation of why Marilyn never cashed the check or what it was for, Zoe's curiosity quickly turns to suspicion, and she goes to Cass for help.