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David Crump’s courtroom novel The Plaintiff’s Lawyer takes Robert Herrick into the world of trade secrets and terrorism
An Ayatollah grins at the successful launch of a new Kharramshar missile in the foothills of southern Iran. Downrange, the U.S. Navy’s newest warship tracks and recovers its two stages. In Quantico, Virginia, the FBI takes the missile apart. How did the Iranians produce the key rollover mechanism so that it mimicked an American component made by Nova Aerospace Company? Nova asks Robert Herrick, the famous “Lawyer for the Little Guy,” to find out. It’s way outside his usual practice. And a possible culprit, the shadowy company known as Dravos Corporation, hires a street fighter named Jimmy Coleman to defend it. He’s the head of litigation at the megafirm of…
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Classic memoir of escaping from Georgia chain gang gets digitally remastered™ as new ebook, hardcover & paperback
This classic book tells the harrowing and inspirational story of Robert Elliott Burns’ imprisonment on a chain gang in Georgia in the 1920s, his subsequent escape from the chain gang (twice, no less!), and the public furor that developed. The book was immediately turned into a famous movie and sparked outrage about prison conditions and involuntary servitude that led to major reforms. It is also simply a very interesting read. Originally issued as a six-part serial in the pages of True Detective Mysteries magazine in 1931, and printed by the Vanguard Press the following year, this is an autobiographical account–written while in hiding somewhere on the East Coast–of the author’s…
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Paul Pruitt Sr. has penned a tale of the South and courtroom drama a century ago
They have mules. The past is more stubborn. Aftermath is a story spun from persistent memories of the Civil War and its violent sequels, from Appalachian culture and the often tragic history of the South. Cynthia and J.P. Kinsor, both survivors, each face seemingly impossible challenges. Cynthia, wearing a mysterious past as she lives her struggle, journeys well beyond the realm of conventional behavior. Still, the unlikely couple confronts their troubles with mutual affection. All with the support of colorfulneighbors and friends — who make up a well-developed cast of characters who stand opposed to the violence of night-riding terrorists, the “Whitecappers,” agents of bigotry and hate. The late Paul…
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Bob Reiss brings back two of his bestselling novels, in paperback and eBook formats
1. The Casco Deception Captains Island: 1942 . . . For the sleepy little fishing village in Casco Bay, war was just a distant rumbling. Life went on pretty much as usual while their giant sixteen-inch guns guarded the convoys leaving Portland, Maine. Only Tom Heiden, a young American security officer, was uneasy—they were vulnerable to attack. Nobody seemed ready to listen . . . and then a stranger named Ryker showed up. But John Ryker—who seemed as safe as the man next door—was a killer, an American-born mercenary and Germany’s most valued secret agent. He had served the Reich faithfully and well behind enemy lines in France, Poland, Norway.…
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Harvard Law Review’s June 2018 Issue: Harmless Error; Presidential Norms; and Abstention after Ferguson
The contents of the June 2018 issue of the Harvard Law Review include: • Article, “Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights,” by Daniel Epps • Article, “Presidential Norms and Article II,” by Daphna Renan • Article, “Abstention in the Time of Ferguson,” by Fred O. Smith, Jr. • Book Review, “Facts, Values, Justification, Democracy,” by Don Herzog • Note, “How Crime Pays: The Unconstitutionality of Modern Civil Asset Forfeiture as a Tool of Criminal Law Enforcement” • Note, “RCRA as a Tool for Environmental Justice Communities and Others to Compel Climate Change Adaptation” • Note, “The Presumption of Regularity in Judicial Review of the Executive Branch” The issue includes In Memoriam…
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Senate Intelligence Committee Issues Report on Russian Election Interference
Presented in convenient book-size rather than letter-size, two bound and affordable paperback volumes reproduce the Senate report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to high-level Trump campaign officials. It’s a bipartisan report and cannot be dismissed as the mere product of oppositional politics. The chair of the committee, Marco Rubio, is otherwise a firm supporter of the president, but the undisputed facts laid out in this report tell a hair-raising history. You don’t have to read between the lines — or under the redactive black bars — to see a conclusion of campaign collusion if not criminal conspiracy. This is the report issued Aug. 18, 2020 by…
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Tony Freyer’s Double Agents Takes a Spy Family to Remote Australia and Mexico
Espionage comes to the U.S.-Mexico border and Northern Australia, and a family of intense and fiercely loyal Americans get caught up in the intrigue. By 2008, a global cocaine cartel is expanding aggressively. In remote Arnhem Land of northern Australia, ocean vessels, trucks, and vans move the cocaine to urban markets—and the cartel uses hidden tunnels to deliver it across the California-Mexico border. The cartel’s planes, sea vessels, trucks, and drones counter U.S., Mexican, and Australian law enforcement’s own technologies. But the Iraq War has disrupted transnational law-enforcement’s cooperation. In 2009, the new Obama Administration seeks renewed transnational law-enforcement cooperation against the cocaine cartel. Rep. Sarah Donaldson’s congressional intelligence committee…
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Louisiana Notary Exam Sample Questions Adds Explained Answers
Questions and answers in four separate tests—plus detailed explanations for each right and wrong answer, keyed to the page of the official study guide—help coach students for the difficult exam. This unofficial resource at last takes notary prep to the next level by revealing the tricks of questions and formats, tactics for the test, and notary law behind it. Louisiana civil law notaries have unmatched functions, responsibilities, and opportunities—but the exam has a 20% pass rate. Candidates need all the help they can get. The best prep classes and study groups recommend multiple practice questions to understand the format, content, and coverage of the actual exams the Secretary of State…
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Harvard Law Review‘s May 2018 Issue: Music as a Matter of Law?
The contents of the May 2018 issue (Number 7) of the Harvard Law Review include: • Article, “Music as a Matter of Law,” by Joseph P. Fishman • Article, “The Morality of Administrative Law,” by Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule • Book Review, “The Black Police: Policing Our Own,” by Devon W. Carbado & L. Song Richardson • Note, “Section 230 as First Amendment Rule” In addition, the issue features extensive student commentary on Recent Cases, including such subjects as: a recent ruling that bystanders have a First Amendment right to record police but granting qualified immunity to police officers involved; whether a local (Massachusetts) drone ordinance is preempted…
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Meltsner’s journey as civil rights activist and survivor is recounted in With Passion
Growing up in a Depression-battered family, one tangled by a mortal secret, With Passion tells the improbable story of an unsung hero of the civil rights movement who thought of himself as a miscast lawyer but ended up defending peaceful protesters, representing Mohammad Ali, suing Robert Moses, counseling Lenny Bruce, bringing the case that integrated hundreds of Southern hospitals and named the principal architect of the death penalty abolition movement in the United States. More than a meditation on often-frustrating legal efforts to fight inequality and racism, Meltsner—also a novelist and playwright—vividly recounts the life of a New York City kid, struggling to make sense of coming of age amidst the…
