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An irreverently funny and deeply moving story of growing up on the Rez and figuring out what it means to fight for your people, in the courtroom as a lawyer, and throughout life as a good relative When Lakota law professor Elaine Yellow Horse was a kid, her mother told her that her...

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s A Twentieth-Century Life is more than a memoir—it’s an ode to America and a solemn reminder of the promises and values on which this country’s greatness resides, spanning from Breyer’s coming of age in an era of post-war idealism, to his...

Good Purpose is more than a memoir. It's a battle-tested argument that purpose-driven companies don't just do good—they outperform. Cherkasky's insider accounts of Gotti, Eliot Spitzer, the FBI, Wall Street, and corporate America offer access no journalist can replicate.

Le témoignage coup de poing d'un ministre hors norme : premier avocat pénaliste à devenir garde des Sceaux, Éric Dupond-Moretti se livre sans concession sur ses quatre années passées place Vendôme. 4 ans, 2 mois et 17 jours : c'est le temps qu'a passé Éric Dupond-Moretti place Vendôme...

From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer comes a remarkable new look at the only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. The conventional wisdom is that William Howard Taft was a mediocre president, a man almost without political skills. Yet Taft’s...

Systematically Excluded: A Trial Judge’s Fight for Justice is the story of a trial judge’s ruling in a particular case and what followed when he decided to speak about a petition for certification of law—a matter he believed demanded it. A single ruling—and the speech surrounding it—became the focal point of years of scrutiny, controversy, and institutional response. This book reflects on the professional and human costs of standing alone in the face of institutional power.

Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858–1927), known as ‘The Great Defender’, was arguably the last of the great celebrity ‘orator advocates’ to serve at the British bar, and “had the gift of throwing the whole of his personality into the case.” In a sometimes turbulent career, he was famed...

A practicing attorney’s unflinching account of what fifty years of representing vulnerable people actually costs. In 1956, a six-year-old boy in a Sacramento Catholic school classroom scooted over in his desk—physically moved his small body to the right—to make room for his guardian angel...

I was born into a name that was never just a name. It was a legacy—weighted with duty, burnished by reputation, and bound by silence. I was taught to guard it at any cost. Yet behind those carefully tended walls, kindness was scarce, and protection was nowhere to be found.This book is my...

What happens when a confident, successful American attorney—a former prosecutor, judge, and law professor—lands an internship with a British barrister and moves his family to England? He meets his match in the person of Barrister Giles Adams-Smyth. With the wry humor reminiscent of Bill Bryson, our narrator recounts his initial impression that “I was about to become a small planet, captured by the gravitational pull of a much larger planet, and soon I would become a satellite circling planet Giles.

Few people have as informed a perspective on good versus evil as Judge Travis Bryan III. With nearly fifty years of experience in the criminal justice system—as a prosecutor, defense attorney, and since 2008 a district court judge for the State of Texas—Bryan has seen the struggle between right and wrong play out from all sides time and time again.

"A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." —J.Tom Morgan In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform—promising to clean up corruption...

Ein juristischer Blick auf die Debatten unserer Zeit: Die renommierte Verfassungsrechtlerin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf blickt auf ihre gescheiterte Richterwahl, analysiert die großen gesellschaftlichen Streitfragen der Gegenwart (Abtreibung, Impfpflicht, Meinungsfreiheit) durch die juristische Brille und plädiert für eine Rückkehr zur sachorientierten Debatte.

** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern...

Surviving the Law: From Undocumented Immigration to Doctors, Lawyers and Scientists is the remarkable and inspiring journey of a young boy who, despite being undocumented, defied the odds and became a successful lawyer. This powerful narrative weaves together his struggles, resilience, and determination as he navigates a world full of obstacles. Alongside his story, the book highlights the journeys of other undocumented graduate students who, despite facing systemic barriers, went on to achieve greatness in their respective fields.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal...

In 2005, after working for ten years in a comfortable but mundane corporate job in San Antonio, Texas, Vincent Sellers successfully managed to leave behind a dreary cubicle landscape and begin the exciting challenges of a crime-fighting FBI agent. His journey is chronicled in Eyes Pried Open: Rookie FBI Agent. Listeners will experience both the highs and the lows of an FBI agent working bank robbery, kidnapping, murder-for-hire cases, and border-related crimes in San Diego, California.

Before Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell could teach women to prioritize themselves, she nearly died not doing it. A high-achieving attorney, CPA, ordained minister, and certified life coach, Lynita survived childhood sexual trauma, stage 4 endometriosis, a near-death experience, and decades of burying her wounds beneath relentless achievement — until her body, her spirit, and her life said: enough.

One of history’s most admired figures and one of the great lawyers and statesmen of all time, Thomas More was voted “Lawyer of the Millennium” by the Law Society of Great Britain and named “Patron of Statesmen” by John Paul II. More combined immense humanistic learning with an unequaled command of the legal and political traditions of Christendom, forging a profound philosophy of statesmanship and freedom. To this philosophic and cultural achievement, More added the virtues of an exemplary husband, father, and friend and the detachment and interior peace of a saint.

'A memoir that doubles as a warning. Zahra Joya writes for the women the world abandoned to the Taliban's brutal gender apartheid - and refuses to let us forget them... [she] is one of the bravest journalists of our time' Malala Yousafzai 'Beautifully written and powerfully told. Joya's story...