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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Series
Description
Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh ("the People," as the Comanche call themselves) and a government investigator, he has ties...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.
4) Double down
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
After years of standing by their women, the Sisterhood's significant others have also become loyal friends. And now Jack Emery, Nikki's husband, has enlisted Ted, Joe, Jay, Bert, Dennis, and Abner to form a top-secret organization known as BOLO Consultants.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she is pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, throws her into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. Ellen, at the same time, is on a mission to take Patty down. She's agreed to act as an informant...
8) Class action
Pub. Date
2004, c1991
Description
Two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics.
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
After years of standing by their women, the Sisterhood's significant others have also become loyal friends. And now Jack Emery, Nikki's husband, has enlisted Ted, Joe, Jay, Bert, Dennis, and Abner to form a top-secret organization known as BOLO Consultants. Jack and his cohorts are ready to offer some behind-the-scenes help to Nikki's law firm as they take on the all-powerful Andover Pharmaceuticals. Andover's anti-leukemia drug causes terrible side...
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Description
When Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, accepted a job at the local iron mine in 1975, she hadn't considered that she would be entering a male-dominated society that would fiercely resist the inclusion of women. This prejudice was born out in the relentless, brutal harassment of every female miner, until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to sue the company. This is the thrilling true story of how one woman pioneered and won the...
11) Los litigantes
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Una manana, David Zinc, un joven abogado de un bufete prestigioso, sobrecargado de trabajos que no le interesan nada, decide que no puede mas y se dirige directamente a un bar donde se emborracha hasta perder el conocimiento.En un barrio degradado del sur de Chicago se encuentra el bufete de abogados Finley & Figg. Defienden a algun conductor borracho, tramitan divorcios sencillos y sobre todo buscan clientes en los pasillos de urgencias de los hospitales...
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.
14) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house lawyer for one of the biggest corporate law firms in New York. He is leading a class action law suit successfully when the case falls apart and he faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Confronting the most challenging case of her illustrious career, Patty and trusted lieutenant Tom Shayes meet their match against the matipulative Tobin family empire - matriarch Marilyn, son Joe and the clan's loyal attorney Leonard Winstone. When former prot�eg�ee Ellen Parsons is also pulled into the malestrom, she discovers she hasn't escaped Patty Hewes after all."--Container.
16) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Attorney Michael Clayton is a 'fixer' the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life --including Michael's."--Publisher.
Series
Damages volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A sharp new law graduate is taken under the wing of a successful litigator, but nothing is ever what it seems in high-stakes law. Episodes include Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker; Tastes Like a Ho-Ho; Because I Know Patty; and more.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Class action: two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multi-million dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics
Runaway jury: after a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not...
20) Michael Clayton
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...