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Jane Smith volume 1
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English
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Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.
2) 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 only...
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A temporary job in the DA's office in Haven, Nevada, is what surrogate mom Sierra Hart thinks she needs. She'll pass her pregnancy in peace, then return home with her brother and his wife's baby and be the best aunt. But Sierra doesn't plan on Deacon Parrish. Opposing counsel on her first big trial. Smooth talker. Shameless flirt. Sierra knows a bad boy when she sees one. Only problem is, she doesn't know how to resist him.
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Bantam
Pub. Date
2020.
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Bantam Books mass market edition.
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English
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As prosecutor Ellen North prepares to try the man arrested for the abduction of little Josh Kirkwood in the small hamlet of Deer Lake, Minnesota, she confronts the sensation-driven news media, an old lover who has become a defense attorney, an unwanted partner, and, suddenly, a second kidnapping.
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2024.
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A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
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Life coach and divorcée Gigi Fortune is rich in money but unlucky in love. Could her family's new lawyer, Harrison Vasquez, be the one to change her fate? Harrison is smart, hardworking and treats Gigi with respect, but considers her strictly off-limits. He's convinced they're just too different to make things work. When it comes to amor, however, never count a Fortune out!
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United States.
What she brought to Afghanistan was a toughness and resilience which came from growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in the US, a fundamental belief in everyone's right to justice and an...
9) Her, too
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"Kelly McCann is a fighter. She's fought to build a successful legal career, fought for the special needs of her family, and tirelessly fought for her clients. Her specialty is defending men accused of sex crimes--falsely accused, she always maintains. Her detractors call her a traitor to her gender, but she doesn't care. Badass and brilliant, Kelly simply loves to win, and as the story opens, she's done it again, securing an acquittal for a renowned...
10) Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes
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English
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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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Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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After evading an attack, defense attorney Adam Spencer is on the run from a dangerous hitman. The killer's wife is Adam's only hope at apprehending the criminal, until she lands in the hospital. Now he must depend on her twin sister, Jaelyn Reed, to find the answers they need all while protecting the baby niece Jaelyn didn't know she had. But with threats at every turn, trust may be the deadliest trap.
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Creighton's first love was always music, but after college he found himself performing in courtrooms rather than on stages or in concert halls. Inspired by the portrayal of Atticus Finch in the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird”, he went to law school to become a defense attorney, but his career path took an unanticipated turn. For nearly three decades, Creighton prosecuted many of Utah's most notorious criminal cases — cases which drew widespread...
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Dans cet ouvrage axé sur le droit en vigueur au Québec, l'auteur présente les fondements de l'intervention législative et réglementaire dans le secteur du tourisme et analyse les principales règles de droit qui visent à protéger tant les consommateurs que les milieux d'accueil dans le contexte d'une activité touristique. Il établit quelques comparaisons avec des lois d'autres provinces ou d'autres pays et traite des efforts déployés à...
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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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An able and ambitious woman from French Polynesia, Maeva Sopo makes her way to America. First Utah and then Colorado. After paralegal school, she becomes a valuable assistant to the principal attorney in a major Denver metropolitan injury, defense law firm.
Maeva meets David Richards, a widowed and disillusioned plaintiff's injury attorney. They encounter each other professionally and develop a mutual respect and trust from some courtroom experiences....
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This is the remarkable story of how a boy from rural Welcome, North Carolina grew up to become an innovative judge, global citizen, and go-to guy for court-building in emerging African nations.
Along the way, he organizes the first-ever judicial conference in Tanzania, jogs with children in Lusaka, dances with a python, and has adventures ranging from the harrowing to the hilarious.
In the end, he discovers the distance between Welcome and Windhoek...
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Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. One represented English Canada, the other Quebec. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced similar challenges. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment.
Constance Backhouse delves into the sexist roadblocks both women had to face in education, law practice, and in the courts. She...
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Una de las experiencias más actuales que ha marcado el derrotero de la justicia en México fue el cambio de perspectiva respecto de los derechos humanos. Un enfoque moderno y progresista dio origen al surgimiento de la décima época y a reformas constitucionales de gran calado, que han dado un giro en el rumbo de impartición de justicia. Las reflexiones expuestas en esta obra abordan temáticas relacionadas a la función jurisdiccional, con un...
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