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Ten years after graduating from Harvard, lawyer Jack Collins sets out to reinvent himself. The Ivy-leaguer leaves a small Connecticut law practice to join one of the nation’s most prestigious firms, trading a nondescript office for one in a gleaming New York City skyscraper. He surrounds himself with people far more glamorous than those he’s left behind. He basks in the pride of being with his famous new boss, his alluring new coworker, and his new client, Abigail Walker, wealthy widow of a US senator. Jack thinks he is on the path to glory. He couldn’t be more wrong.

Cuando Mitch McDeere quedó el tercero de su promoción en la facultad de derecho de Harvard, las ofertas de los mejores bufetes empezaron a llover de todos los rincones de Estados Unidos. Bendini, Lambert & Locke no era el más famoso de ellos, pero sí muy respetado, y estaba dispuesto a satisfacer con creces los deseos de Mitch y su esposa: un sueldo inmejorable, una casa maravillosa y las llaves de un flamante BMW.

Dos jueces del Tribunal Supremo aparecen muertos. Solo una persona ha conectado ambos crímenes, y lo ha hecho por escrito en un informe judicial.

Brilliant but burnt-out English lawyer Ella Blake accepts an apparently simple brief: Investigate the mysterious disappearance of an African American polymath from his room at Cambridge University. The inquiry quickly becomes the greatest challenge of her life - solving the mystery of Genesis. Facing danger at every turn, can Ella find the answers to the riddles and clues left by the missing genius? Reunited with her estranged daughter, the inquiry sends them on a quest across the world and through ancient texts.

Hay una aplicación de smartphone capaz de estrellar un avión comercial. Y está en venta al mejor postor. La abogada Sasha McCandless se acerca a su objetivo: Tras ocho años de largas jornadas, está a punto de convertirse en socia de un prestigioso bufete de abogados. Todo lo que tiene que hacer es mantener la cabeza baja y sus horas facturables. Entonces un avión operado por su cliente se estrella contra la ladera de una montaña, matando a todos los que iban a bordo. Pero, a medida que Sasha investiga el caso, se entera de que el accidente no fue accidental.

Mickey Haller met sa vie et sa liberté en jeu. Au sortir d'un pot pour fêter sa victoire au tribunal, Mickey Haller est arrêté pour défaut de plaque. Mais en ouvrant le coffre de la voiture de Haller, l'agent de police trouve un cadavre à l'intérieur. Celui d'un escroc que l'avocat a défendu à de nombreuses reprises, jusqu'au moment où le client l'a arnaqué à son tour. Accusé de meurtre et incapable de payer la caution de 5 millions de dollars, Haller est aussitôt incarcéré et confronté à une avocate de l'accusation qui veut sa peau, Dana Berg.

Mentre la folla defluisce dal salone nautico di Genova, un fuoristrada invade il sottopassaggio pedonale di accesso al polo fieristico e investe decine di persone. Quando cessa la sua corsa, due uomini escono dall'abitacolo e, armati di coltelli, lasciano dietro di sé una scia di morte. A fine giornata si contano sette vittime e ventotto feriti. Tra questi un poliziotto, casualmente presente durante l'azione terroristica, colpito mentre tentava di salvare due bambini.

Defense attorneys and former spouses Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez have come a long way from their days working in a converted martial arts studio above a Chinese restaurant. Rosie just won her second term as public defender, and Mike is the co-head of the Felony Division. The ex-spouses-with-benefits are enjoying their newly empty nest. Their daughter is a USC alum who is making movies at Pixar. Their son is a freshman at UC-Berkeley. Finally, there is a semblance of order in their lives. It doesn’t last long.

A former defense attorney turned righteous crusader is the hero of this blockbuster novel from an early master of the thriller genre. A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed fellow with a paper-thin alibi. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam, who uses every legal trick he knows to free his client.

After Fredrick Prato gets involved with a local drug gang and fights with his girlfriend about selling drugs, he gets on his motorcycle and rides into the night. Unknown to Frederick, the freeway off-ramp he takes is closed, and blocked by a truck owned by TransAde to prevent oncoming traffic, resulting in a fatal crash. Fredrick's parents and girlfriend are devastated by his unexpected death and sue TransAde for carelessly creating a dangerous situation with the truck. Daniel Mendoza and his team of attorneys must solve the mystery of why the tragic accident occurred.

Greedy class-action lawyer Jack Gamble finds himself on a modern-day leper colony, where he fights bounty hunters and cannibals. During his journey, Jack finds compassion even for the cannibals who would like to capture and cook him. Jack rediscovers his own capacity to love and is driven to try to get back to his girlfriend, Maddy. Can he overcome these obstacles and get back to the woman he loves?

When the Judge dropped off his young son at the Strand Preschool that morning, he didn’t expect to find a body swinging from the rafters of the preschool’s maintenance room. Nor to be dragged into the middle of allegations of sexual abuse of the young charges attending the preschool. When his former lover is caught up in a national frenzy as the press and the networks rush to judgment, condemning her for child molestation and devil worship, the Judge feels compelled to step forward to help his old flame, leading her defense in a cutthroat jury trial and exposing the real story...

Returning to the now-renowned locale of Kindle County, Scott Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his firm's star litigator, who has vanished with more than five million dollars of a client's money.

After a drug cartel abducts his sister, a Kansas judge puts everything on the line to find her. Judge Benjamin Joel catches a death penalty case involving a local drug dealer with ties to a Mexican cartel. When his sister is abducted three days before the trial, Ben is told what he must do to save her - cut the defendant loose utilizing a seldom-used judicial tool known as a judgment of acquittal.

Elsa Bradshaw is 18. Despite a tough start - never knowing her father, and barely seeing her mother who’d rather be chasing men - she’s grown up with her grandmother’s values and a desire to build a better life. But will falling for local bad boy Clayton change all that? Pamela Maylett seems to have everything - as wife of local lap-dancing-club owner Jordan, she’s got money, influence and plenty of life’s little luxuries. But is her beautiful home also her prison? She knows her husband is surrounded by women at work - after all, she was dancing when she met him.

When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savich’s help.

Finn Fitzpatrick barely knows Mandy Breslin from the law firm where they both work. Mandy moves in the privileged world of the senior partners. Finn keeps to herself. But Mandy has secrets, and as Finn gets drawn deeper and deeper into her dead colleague's life, she finds out that Mandy isn't such a stranger after all. And that Mandy's not the only one at the firm with something to hide.

Jack Turner has returned to his hometown of Denton, Florida, to live there for the first time in 18 years. Despite a career as a criminal defense attorney and the companionship of his new dog, Brinkley, Jack is haunted by what is missing in his life. Whether it’s the unanswered questions about his brother, Rick, who never returned from Vietnam, or a budding romance with Jenny Walton, Jack is wary of getting close to anyone beyond a few trusted friends and his beloved dogs.

Defense attorney Leland Monroe lost it all: his big-city job, his reputation, and, worst of all, his loving wife. Now he’s back in his hometown to hit restart and repair the relationship with his troubled son. But the past is always present in a small town. Leland returns to find his high school sweetheart hasn’t had the easiest of lives - especially now that her son faces a death sentence for murdering his father.

Skyscraper developer Quincy Witherman has continued his family's 200-year practice of hiding assets in Switzerland. Now, needing protection from his creditors, he hires Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer Josephina Jillian Jones – 3J – but fails to disclose the Swiss assets to 3J, his bankers, the IRS, and the bankruptcy court...all felonies. 3J knows in her gut that something is wrong. So does Witherman's banker, Stacy Milnes. Will anyone catch him?