Download or read book Maverick Lawyer written by Peter Lewi and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first trial at age 16 to his nervy late admission to law school and representation of a client charged with two counts of armed bank robbery on his fourth day as a lawyer, it was clear that Jake Rodgers was not destined to be a desk bound attorney doing research and pleadings. This is one lawyer's story about a unique career that took him all over the world on often offbeat and sometimes even dangerous assignments. Jake did his own detective work which he enjoyed as much as the legal work. Tending to be a lone wolf, his sense of adventure led him to far flung places including Singapore, Indonesia, India, Denmark, and France. Looking back, he had no regrets about the path he had chosen. Written as a Roman a clef, the author is the real Jake Rodgers as depicted in the story.
Download or read book San Juan Bautista written by Robert S. Weddle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico. Despite its significance as the main entry point into Spanish Texas during the colonial period, San Juan Bautista was generally forgotten until the first publication of this book in 1968. Weddle's narrative is a fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands. It won the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for Best Southwest History in 1969.
Download or read book Lawyers Gone Bad written by Philip Slayton and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shocking and delicious exposé, Philip Slayton, a respected corporate lawyer and former dean of law, sheds light on those who betrayed clients and committed crimes—sometimes for very little personal gain.In this shocking and delicious exposé, Philip Slayton, a respected corporate lawyer and former dean of law, sheds light on those who betrayed clients and committed crimes—sometimes for very little personal gain. While recounting actual cases of Canadian lawyers who ran afoul of the law, using one-on-one interviews with the offenders and their families, Slayton searches for what drives a respected professional to corruption. Sharp and insightful, this book is a call for reform of the legal profession as well as an entertaining, eyebrow-raising look at the few who give lawyers a bad name.
Download or read book Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law written by Pier Luigi Parcu and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, private enforcement of competition law has slowly taken off in Europe. However, major differences still exist among Member States. By harmonizing a number of procedural rules, the Damages Directive aimed to establish a level playing field among EU Member States. This timely book represents the first assessment of the implementation of the Damages Directive. Offering a comparative perspective, key chapters provide an up-to-date account of the emerging trends in private enforcement of competition law in Europe.
Download or read book Professional Wrestling and the Law written by Alex B. Long and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a law professor (who also happens to be a wrestling fan), this book is an entertaining and informative exploration of legal cases involving professional wrestling. Relying upon judicial decisions and court documents, it discusses the legal theories and procedures involved in legal disputes involving professional wrestling and explores how the legal system--an institution devoted to arriving at the truth involved in any conflict--has dealt with the business of professional wrestling, a business with a long history of obscuring the truth. Topics include: the legal issues involved when a wrestler goes into the crowd and beats up a fan; Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against World Championship Wrestling for statements made during a live pay-per-view event; and race and sex discrimination in professional wrestling.
Download or read book Get Me Ellis Rubin written by Dary Matera and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed memoirs of one of America's most famous, colorful and controversial defense attorneys. A champion for the little man, this fast-paced account reads like Perry Mason and covers some of the most publicized legal issues of our time, including the world-famous "Television Intoxication" case and the history-making "Battered Daughter Defense."
Download or read book Power at the Table written by Sharla Frost and published by Beyond Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WOMEN LAWYERS GUIDE TO DEVELOPING CLIENTS AND CONTROLFinally a book that shows female lawyers how to rip the lid off what they thought was the limit to their success.Law school graduates have been 50% female since the late 1970s."You need clients in order to have control, my book shows you how!" Sharla J. FrostIn POWER AT THE TABLEyou'll learn:? How to identify your own personal goals in the practice of law? Develop your unique brand in the profession? Learn to use your personal strengths to maximize your business? Discover how to leverage your natural networks to gain more clients? Learn to ask for the business you want"Sharla is an outstanding trial lawyer who really knows how tocommunicate effectively with jurors. Sharla just gets it."Jack Ingold, Senior Managing Counsel, Dow Chemical"As a woman who launched a new law firm, the wisdom in this book is absolutely first class. As lawyers we understand 'minutes are money' You know what you want from your career and this book will help you get there!"Claudette Patton, Founding Partner and Mediatorat Patton Law, PLLC, Louisville, KYSharla J. Frost learned early in her career the value of having her own clients. Then, by trial and error developed a systematic approach for maintaining and expanding her network of clients and contacts. She has now distilled more than 30 years of business development experience into a concentrated, twelve-part guidebook for other women lawyers who need a framework for their own business development efforts. Autobiographical in part, inspirational in other, the guide provides a practical outline women can use to invigorate their marketing efforts. Lawyers at all levels of experience will find useful information, organizational tips, and step-by-step worksheets that they can tailor for their own personal business development program. In these pages, readers will find advice on how to develop their unique brand in the profession; use their personal strengths and personality to maximize their business development efforts; access their natural networks to improve their marketing chances.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Texas written by David Richards and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent lawyer colorfully recounts a lost and lamented era in Texas politics: “Fascinating . . . Vivid, insightful commentary.” —Houston Chronicle Once upon a time in Texas, there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant (and more tolerable). David Richards was one of them. In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought significant gains in civil rights, voter rights, labor law, and civil liberties to the people of Texas from the 1950s to the 1990s. In his work as a lawyer, Richards was involved in cases addressing the historic exclusion of minority voters; inequity in school funding; free speech violations, and more. In telling these stories, he vividly evokes the glory days of Austin liberalism, when a who’s who of Texas activists plotted strategy at watering holes such as Scholz Garden and the Armadillo World Headquarters or on raft trips down the Rio Grande and Guadalupe Rivers. Likewise, he offers vivid portraits of liberal politicians from Ralph Yarborough to Ann Richards (his former wife), progressive journalists such as Molly Ivins and the Texas Observer staff, and the hippies, hellraisers, and musicians who all challenged Texas’s conservative status quo. Written with an insider’s insights, this book records “a sweeter time when a free-associating bunch of ragtag Texans took on the establishment.” “An invaluable memoir of the time.” —Journal of Southern History Includes photos
Download or read book The Maverick written by Jan Hudson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassidy Outlaw left her high-powered legal job—and the unscrupulous lawyer fiancé who broke her heart— to return to Texas. Here, life is simpler and the people more authentic. Managing her family's Chili Witches Café and protecting the charm of old Austin's landmarks keeps her too busy to care about spending time with Griff Mitchell, the new hottie in town with the Paul Newman blue eyes. When Cass literally stumbles over him on the jogging trail, Griff falls for her in turn—hard. Too bad she's got a problem with big New York City lawyers…because he's here to convince her family to sell their historic property. No one told him Cass was the kind of woman who could stand up to any man—a maverick who could break his heart. Will she forgive him when she discovers his secret?
Download or read book History s Lost Moments Volume V written by Tom Horton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Hortons stories, over 400 in all, on local and Southern history, have entertained and enlightened folks for decades. As a noted history teacher, newspaper columnist, and banquet speaker, Horton has captured the attention of his listeners and readers as he recounts the unique and less well-known aspects of the Souths colorful history. You will find everything from tales of the colonial pirates who squandered gold along our coast to modern bank mergers that left shareholders out in the cold. Soon, Tom Horton plans to turn his hand to fiction - for some of old Carolinas stories still cannot be told otherwise. As the old folks always said, Sooner or later, the truth will out. Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy Volume V of Historys Lost Moments.
Download or read book Get Me Ellis Rubin written by Ellis Rubin and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial lawyer shares the details of some of his most famous landmark cases, which have emerged from Miami's hotbed of political passion, fast money, and glitzy lifestyles
Download or read book Our Alma Mater in Texas and the Southwest written by Thomas FitzHugh and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three C s for the Seasoned Trial Lawyer written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defamation Law and Social Attitudes written by Roy Baker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Because the law of defamation is about reputation and thus necessarily about community and social attitudes, Baker's serious empirical analysis of just those community and social attitudes about defamation and about reputation is a novel and important contribution to the literature on libel and slander. It will be a useful corrective to the various empirically unsupported assertions that dominate the court cases and the academic literature on the topic.' Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia, US 'This book shines a welcome light on a neglected area of defamation law: how juries and judges determine what it means to say a statement is defamatory. The author employs well-designed empirical research to provide concrete answers, and the reform he proposes is sensible and workable. The book should be must-reading for anyone who seeks to understand how the law does or does not protect reputation especially lawyers and judges who try libel cases.' David A. Anderson, University of Texas Law School, US 'When defamation jurors decide whether a statement about someone is "defamatory", the question for them to answer is whether it would generate disapproval among "ordinary reasonable people". It has generally been assumed that they answer this question correctly. What Roy Baker discovered through empirical research is that this assumption may often be wrong. This fascinating and important book sets out his findings, alongside a broad-ranging and perceptive analysis of the law's approach to defining "defamatory".' Michael Chesterman, The University of New South Wales, Australia 'This refreshingly original work is an essential addition to the libraries of all defamation aficionados. Through empirical evidence, including interviews with judges and practitioners, and surveys of the general public, Dr Baker convincingly demonstrates the human propensity to overestimate the negative effect that defamatory imputations may have on other people ("the third person effect"). The conventional "ordinary reasonable person" test becomes in practice an "ordinary unreasonable person" test, regrettably lowering the defamation threshold and further curtailing freedom of communication.' Michael Gillooly, The University of Western Australia The common law determines whether a publication is defamatory by considering how 'ordinary reasonable people' would respond to it. But how does the law work in practice? Who are these 'ordinary reasonable people' and what do they think? This book examines the psychology behind how judges, juries and lawyers decide what is defamatory. Drawing on a thorough examination of case law, as well as extensive empirical research, including surveys involving over 4,000 members of the general public, interviews with judges and legal practitioners and focus groups representing various sections of the community, this book concludes that the law reflects fundamental misperceptions about what people think and how they are influenced by the media. The result is that the law tends to operate so as to unfairly disadvantage publishers, thus contributing to defamation law's infamous 'chilling effect' on free speech. This unique and controversial book will appeal to judges, defamation law practitioners and scholars in various common law jurisdictions, media outlets, academics engaged in researching and teaching torts and media law, as well as those working within the disciplines of media or communications studies and psychology. Anyone concerned with the law's interaction with public opinion, as well as how people interpret the media will find much to interest them in this fascinating study.
Download or read book Bulletin written by George Washington University and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alumni Number written by George Washington University and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington University Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
