In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth defects of many other children. It was a battle that nearly everyone but attorney Jim Ferraro deemed unwinnable. After all, it involved one of the world's most...

In the early 1960s, Jerry Kraig, an idealistic Cleveland lawyer, was retained by his boyhood mentor, Reuben Sturman, later known as the Czar of Pornography. Kraig was his First Amendment Coordinator. Little did Kraig know his representation would lead him into a nightmare legal battle resulting in Kraig's imprisonment to defraud the Federal Government of Sturman's taxes. The Kraig's were an average suburban family who had everything and lost it all....

The book details, from a personal and unique perspective, the history of the development and progress of some of the very significant civil rights and poverty law reform cases, several of which went all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Not only will this book be enjoyable by attorneys and those familiar with the legal profession; but it also presents an interesting story for those who would enjoy reading about the portrayal of many connecting...

Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century. From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink's-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away from someone's illicit deal or a hardened crook. Renowned for being one of the luckiest members of the Sweeney (Flyinq Squad), he foiled London's most dangerous...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the black drive for civil rights, but the changes he sought came largely in legal opinions issues by federal judges. Foremost of these was Frank Minis Johnson, Jr., of Montgomery, Alabama, who presided over some of the most emotional hearings and trials of the rights movement-hearings brimming with dramatic and poignant testimony from the black people who cried out for the freedoms that are the legacy of all Americans....

A candid, gritty, and often poignant look at criminal justice in New York City by a former trial and appellate prosecutor who rose to Chief Assistant District Attorney of Queens County, was a criminal defense lawyer and a Supreme Court Justice. Schwartz provides penetrating insight into the world of serial killers, cop killers, murderers for hire, hero cops, psycho cops, child killers, mafia beatdowns, corrupt politicians, and an imperfect legal system...

An able and ambitious woman from French Polynesia, Maeva Sopo makes her way to America. First Utah and then Colorado. After paralegal school, she becomes a valuable assistant to the principal attorney in a major Denver metropolitan injury, defense law firm. Maeva meets David Richards, a widowed and disillusioned plaintiff's injury attorney. They encounter each other professionally and develop a mutual respect and trust from some courtroom experiences....

Whistle-Blower Brett Arquette, a 30-year veteran of the Florida Court System and the former Ninth Circuit's Chief Technology Officer, tells the tale of a court system run amok. Brett contends that Judges Lisa Munyon and Belvin Perry Jr. ran a systematic program of mental torture to try to get Brett to quit so Chief Judge Perry could make his girlfriend (who worked under Brett) the court's new CTO. Mr. Arquette refers to this job as 30-years of Hell...

John C. Sullivan, Jr. was a practicing attorney in Jackson, Mississippi for 58 years and a peer rated AV Preeminent Attorney by Martindale Hubble for many of those years. He is an Eagle Scout and a Vigil member of the Order of the Arrow. He built a rustic cabin in the woods in Madison County, Mississippi at age15 and hunted, fished and trapped selling his pelts for extra spending money and was President of the Student Body of Jackson Central High...

No-one knows more about children in trouble than Barbara Holborow. In this best-selling book, Barbara draws on the knowledge and wisdom acquired in her many years as a Children's Court magistrate, where she presided over the best and the worst of children, and those dealing with them. She tells the story of her own life as well, and in these pages there is a wealth of practical advice for those who want the best out of the most valuable thing in our...