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Growing up in the working-class waterfront suburb of Port Melbourne, Frank Vincent became aware very early of the impact of social and economic inequality. He went on to become a successful barrister practising in criminal law before being appointed to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. Throughout his career, which included a lengthy period as Parole Board Chair, he never lost his concern for victims and the marginalised in our society, especially...
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As the "Heart of Dixie" approaches its 2019 Bicentennial, attorney-author Julian L. McPhillips Jr. again draws upon his colorful cases and clients to explore some of the unique aspects of the mind, spirit, and culture of his home state. Two chapters involve other lawyers: a "DUI king" and a family of eight lawyers practicing together. Another relates how in the 1930s F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald enjoyed the same Montgomery neighborhood in which Helen...
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Life In Death is an inspirational story of the loss of Gibson's brother on the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. But rather than becoming bitter, she chose to take the road less traveled and responded in forgiveness and love. She is overcoming this act of evil with good by serving the people of Libya, the country found responsible. Gibson takes the reader on an emotional 20 year journey as she wrestles through grief...
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Italia oculta reconstruye con rigor y haciendo uso de una documentación exhaustiva, que incluye fuentes judiciales, el complejo rompecabezas de las terribles vicisitudes italianas de los años 1978-1980: la logia masónica Propaganda 2, el secuestro y asesinato de Aldo Moro, la masacre de la estación de Bolonia, los complots e intentos de golpe de estado… Una historia negra cuyo protagonista es un país moribundo, hundido en la ciénaga de la...
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He took comfort from this assessment as he felt it confirmed that he was on the right track... Gordon Lewis loves the humanity of the Law. That affection has led him to a legal career of great diversity. Whether as Director of the Victorian Law Institute, sitting as a County Court Judge, regular presentations on radio, guest speaker at both overseas and Australian conferences, or his role as Cricket Australia's Senior Code of Conduct Commissioner,...
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Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada's most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We've all heard the media's take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We've all lamented the fate of a person who we think was wrongfully...
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Like Winnie the Pooh, I thought a thought. Should I write my memoir and tell the world about the difficulties a brown-skinned man from an Asian country had to undergo in the legal profession in Melbourne?
Melbourne silk Nimal Wikramanayake's memoir is a no-holds barred account of the scandalous racism he experienced as a Sri Lankan barrister who joined the Victorian Bar in the final days of the White Australia Policy. He worked hard to establish...
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Life was different in 1946 when Helene was born. Women were destined to serve within the confines of the home and support her man. Born into a conservative Catholic midwestern family of Irish immigrant stock, her destiny was sealed. A different world is offered to her brothers. This she cannot understand. Times are changing though. Just as she enters puberty, birth control pills are approved. The Civil Rights Act is passed the year before she finishes...
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Imagine discovering the locked diary of a long-ago prominent official who recorded in it his unvarnished stories of behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the most famous people of his generation: world leaders, explorers, iconic movie and sport stars-even two canonized saints. How badly would you want to locate that key? How hard would you look for it?
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In this, his fifth book, former Congressman James Rogan reminiscences...
90) The Power Within
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Crushed by the weight of the loss of a major public trial, nationally known and acclaimed trial lawyer L. Todd Kelly's life and multitude of sins was exposed to the world. Wondering whether or not his life was worth living, Todd sat captive in a closet for 45 minutes with a gun in his mouth. Deep down, he knew his lust for power, sex, and fame brought him to this day-not to mention the $12 million debt and divorce looming over his head. Apart from...
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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...
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Gregory sat in a small cell that he shared with another inmate and questioned, "why am I here...Lord? What did I do wrong to cost me the rest of my life in prison with a walking death sentence? Please let me know, I am man enough to handle it, but I need to know where I went wrong?"
The answer came in three simple words, "It was rigged!"
As soon as Gregory was arrested for a murder and assault that his mentally ill brother committed, he set out on...
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This biography explores the personal, political and professional life of Sue Shelton White, a militant suffragist, pioneering Tennessee lawyer and vocal leader in the controversial protests and tireless lobbying campaign for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women their equal right to vote 100 years ago.
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"The volcanic political atmosphere in the bubbling cauldron of the caldera that was the Gazelle Peninsula came to a head in December 1969."
This unique book tells the story of the day-to-day life of a young criminal circuit lawyer from Tasmania, Kerry Dillon, some 50 years ago in a country where many people lived as generations before had lived, back into the mists of time. Employed as a 22-year-old lawyer in the Office of the Public Solicitor, WA...
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"Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated 'on the basis of sex' to be unconstitutional. In a time when women...
98) An unjust judge
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"It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes. But there are others in the frame: the...
100) The Amber Room
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Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man--and the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies bombed, the Room was hidden, and it has never been seen since. But now, the hunt has begun once more. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything...
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