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An FBI chase through the streets of Phoenix leads to an epic firefight and the fatal shooting of an important member of the Vittini mob. As a result, Special Agent Donnie Francisco faces an enraged crime family bent on payback. They come for Donnie, they come for his family. Donnie seeks out Flagstaff attorney Thaddeus Murfee. The lawyer agrees to defend and exonerate the agent, but he runs afoul of the mob himself. The body count rises as warfare erupts in the court and in the dark streets and back alleys and small towns of Arizona.

When teenager Nora Sheehan fatally shoots her brother Nico in their family home one evening, her parents’ lives are left shattered. Nico had been diagnosed with a terminal illness – was what Nora did an act of mercy, or something far darker? And what will happen to her now, alone in a juvenile detention centre awaiting trial, unable or unwilling to speak? Out of their depth, Angie and David Sheehan turn to local lawyer Martine Dumont for help.

Den ene var en bohemisk mångmiljonär, den andre en högt uppsatt och karismatisk domare. Deras vägar korsades vid landets största och viktigaste domstol. Hur kunde det som sedan hände faktiskt hända? Hur kunde en domare förskingra miljonbelopp i åratal utan att bli stoppad? Leden slöts, locket lades på. För till varje pris skulle domaren skyddas. Av sina egna kollegor, de högsta juristerna i landet. Alltihop börjar i ett mörkt och kallt trettiotal. Och det slutar inte förrän på femtiotalet.

Wyatt Blake, district attorney turned defense lawyer, faces his first murder trial from the dark side. He’s representing Ryker Brando, a wealthy rock climber charged with murder for cutting the rope of his climbing partner, causing him to hurtle to his death. Colorado’s “Choice of Evils” defense will determine whether Wyatt can get Ryker off even though the man who fell was having an affair with Ryker’s wife. Wyatt, a widower with a six-year-old daughter, faces his own choice of evils in his personal life, as he battles grief and guilt over the tragic death of his wife.

A suspenseful storyline in A Dry Hate: Power Versus the People brings current events to life as author Nancy Marshall weaves fact into fiction, providing realistic, sometimes sympathetic characters and motives. In addition, she provides an excellent backdrop of First Amendment issues and a display of power and propaganda in action—an easy and worthwhile story for those who want to understand Arizona immigration politics.

Als der notorisch erfolglose Anwalt Nicholas Meller die junge Nina empfängt, die sich bei ihm bewirbt, wird schnell klar: Nina sieht genauso gut aus wie auf dem Bewerbungsfoto, und – sie trägt einen körperlichen Makel. Ihr rechter Arm ist zurückgebildet. Ebenso schnell wird klar: Nina ist eine starke Frau, die kein Mitleid duldet und sich durchs Leben kämpft. Beide ahnen nicht, dass ihre Schicksale schon bald durch dramatische Ereignisse verschmolzen werden. Sie geraten in den Fall um einen unheimlichen Mörder, der seine Opfer mit chirurgischer Präzision einkreist und brutal umbringt.

Dallas, 22. November 1963: John F. Kennedy ist ermordet und die Hintergründe des Attentats auf den Präsidenten werden vertuscht. Ein junger Polizist kommt in Dallas an, mit einem Überstellungsmandat und 6000 Dollar. Eine höllische Reise durch die wildesten Jahre der amerikanischen Geschichte beginnt – eine atemlose Irrfahrt durch explodierende amerikanische Träume.

While Jake’s law practice is finally beginning to take off, at home, his marriage is crumbling. He has broken a solemn promise to Elena, his wife, not to defend drug dealers due to her traumatic experiences as a child in her native Colombia. When given the chance to admit what he’s done, Jake continues with the lie, again and again. Now with Jake facing imminent arrest and trial, Elena no longer believes in his innocence, and in fear for her safety takes off with the kids.

כשליה גרין פרשה מהפרקליטות בכדי לנהל פאב אירי בחור שכוח אל בגליל, היא קיוותה שתוכל לשתות כמה שתרצה ולחיות בשקט מיום ליום, ובעיקר קיוותה ש"הפרשה של המדינה" — היעלמותה של מאי לחיאני הקטנה ממלון בוטיק בצפון, שעל הדרך הרסה לליה ולשותפיה לחקירה את החיים — מאחוריה. שנתיים לאחר מכן נעלמת ילדה נוספת מאותו מלון בדיוק ביום השנה להיעלמותה של מאי. כל השדים מתעוררים מרבצם, וליה ושותפה הוותיק, מנו, נגררים מחדש בעל כורחם בחזרה לתיק הכואב והמורכב ולמערבולת של אנשי משפט, משטרה ותקשורת, כשהם לגמרי לבדם מול העולם. האם הפעם יצליחו השניים להציל את הילדה בזמן?

Attorney Kirk Hoffman only represents the innocent and works behind the scenes to help his clients. But when Dwayne Sachs, a contentious online influencer and the son of a former client, comes to Hoffman on a murder charge, he can’t say no, even though it seems like a simple case and there is little doubt Dwayne is guilty.

Millionärstochter Lara Blum wurde entführt. Der Täter sitzt in Haft, verweigert aber jede Aussage. Sein Motiv ist unklar. Psychopath oder Terrorist? Die Medien überschlagen sich mit Spekulationen. Bei der Polizei herrscht Ausnahmezustand. Rechtsanwalt Pal Palushi wird zum Pflichtverteidiger ernannt. Da liefert ihm der Entführer einen versteckten Hinweis. Doch Palushi ist an das Anwaltsgeheimnis gebunden. Wird er seine Werte über Bord werfen und seine Karriere aufs Spiel setzen, um die junge Studentin zu retten? Er gerät zwischen die Fronten.

Der atemberaubende neue Thriller der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin. Anwältin Leigh musste schon immer härter kämpfen als andere. Denn ihre Kindheit war geprägt von Gewalt und wurde vor Jahrzehnten durch ein brutales Verbrechen abrupt beendet. Seitdem sucht sie Schutz hinter der unauffälligen Fassade ihres gutbürgerlichen Lebens. Bis sie den Auftrag bekommt, die Verteidigung eines mutmaßlichen Vergewaltigers zu übernehmen. Der Fall könnte Leighs Karriere einen mächtigen Schub verpassen.

In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial - involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing witnesses and evidence, and the whims of a lawless country - unfolds, bodies fall and fates dangle.

A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal - and this time, maybe even kill. Mike grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out.

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.

In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim, until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years.

The classic legal thriller and huge bestseller from master of the genre John Grisham. David Zinc has it all: Big firm, big salary, life in the lawyer's fast lane. Until the day he snaps and throws it all away. Leaving the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himself into a new job with Finley & Figg. A self-styled 'boutique' firm with only two partners, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are ambulance-chasing street lawyers who hustle nickel-and-dime cases, dreaming of landing the big win.

A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide. In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don't add up. Could it be that the students suspected of being the shooters are actually victims?

He's their lawyer. He's their insider. He's their spy. Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want - even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.