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Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Create a trust that provides financial security for a loved one with special needs without jeopardizing government benefits. The fifth edition provides eligibility requirements for government benefits, current resources, and a new perspective on when to make a trust independently and when to seek an attorney's help.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This television show was ground-breaking for its combination of police procedural and courtroom drama. In the first half of each show Sgt. Nick Anderson of the LAPD tracked down criminals. In the second half, John Egan, defense attorney, represented the accused while attorney Jerry Miller led the prosecution.
1903) The split : season three
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Hannah and Nathan are facing their own divorce amicably, until shock revelations prompt a painful showdown. Meanwhile Ruth is spending more time on her new podcast rather than being a helpful grandmother, Nina is juggling life as a single mum and an unexpected event turns Rose adn James' lives upside down. Throughout it all this messy, blended, authentic family of lawyers and lovers prove that divorce doesn't have to mean failure and that there is...
1904) Daddy's little girls
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. As these two people try to overcome their different backgrounds, they find love. Monty struggles to protect his children from abuse and...
1906) Jimmy
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A mentally challenged teenager sees beings no one else can. Jimmy doesn't always understand what he sees and hears, but he remembers it all. His lawyer father asks him to testify in a crucial trial, and the testimony saves the man, but has consequences for many.
1907) A few good men
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
1908) Ghosts of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader."-- IMDb.
1909) Dawnland
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"For decades, child welfare authorities have been forcibly removing Native American children from their homes to 'save' them from being Indian. [As of 1974, at least 1 in 4 Native American children nationwide had been separated from their families]. In Maine, the first official 'truth and reconciliation commission' in the United States begins an unprecedented investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body deals with difficult...
1910) The counselor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him.
1911) The conspirator
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, boarding house owner Mary Surratt, before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns"--Dust jacket flap.
A pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people. Debbie Preece lost her brother to opioid overdose, and was desperate for justice. Joined by a crusading lawyer and a local journalist,...
1915) Enchanted
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical, animated land and finds herself in reality--the gritty streets of modern-day Manhattan. Giselle, adrift in our chaotic world, is shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis. This place is badly in need of enchantment! But when she begins to fall in love with the charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her...
1916) Denial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
1917) To Kill a Mockingbird
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
1918) 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...
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