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One More Story and I'm Out the Door: A Life, with Recollections about Jimmy Hoffa, the Mafia, G. Gordon Liddy, and Guardian Angels, Among Others - Paperback

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by Thomas A. Kennelly (Author)THOMAS A. KENNELLY takes you into the heart of the American legal system with this first-hand and often amusing recount of a professional life in the courtroom on both sides of the aisle. Some of the best-known names of the 20th century show up in his life experience, from Jimmy Hoffa to G. Gordon Liddy, Robert Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. In the tradition of Irish story-tellers, Kennelly weaves his tales with humor and faith and offers penetrating insights into the...

Human Resource/Labor Relations: A Primer - Paperback

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by James H. Hopkins (Author)In today's world economy Human Resource Professionals, Managers and Supervisors are required to make decisions faster and provide rapid turnaround of information regarding employees. Information will come from the many stakeholders in the organization, such as customers, employees, unions and governmental agencies, all this requiring these individuals to collect and distill the salient points quickly in order to reinforce employee behavior. Human Resource Professio...

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by Patrick M. Ryan (Author)Understanding one another can eliminate intimidation and create a more favorable climate. How we choose to deal with one another can and should be constantly improved. Because we choose how to behave, we do more than respond mindlessly to stimuli, we help create the reality that shapes our relationships. Our future choices are limited by the nature of our relationship to the other person and the intensity of another's desire or need to maintain the relationship. Peo...

The Private Investigator's Legal Manual: (California Edition) - Paperback

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by David Queen (Author)The Private Investigator's Legal Manual is written especially for California private investigators and the attorneys who hire and represent them. This is the first and only complete source for answers to the often tricky and difficult legal issues unique to California investigators. The 300+ page Manual's ten Chapters cover more than 140 topics It contains analysis of more than 150 court cases and 125 separate statutes and regulations of importance to California's pri...

Game Plan for a More Profitable and Productive Law Firm: Thinking Like a Business, Creating Daily Guidelines, Becoming Better at Analyzing Your Busine - Paperback

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by Deborah L. Avaro (Author)A comprehensive strategy & reference guide that will detail the techniques lawyers and law firms need to think like a business. It will help firms analyze and improve their business processes, dramatically increasing their profitability and productivity. This book benefits every member of the firm, from partners and the accounting staff to paralegals and other personnel. Contains examples of budgets, financial reports and management reports. Receive powerful ma...

The Legal Lampoon: A Practical, No-Nonsense Guide for Anyone Interested in Becoming or Hiring a Lawyer - Paperback

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by Richard T. ICCI (Author)The Ball Four of the legal profession, The Legal Lampoon is a practical, must-read humorous guide to the legal profession for any person considering a career in the legal field or wanting to hire an attorney. Richard Icci, a lawyer with more than twenty years experience, addresses and debunks many of the popularly held beliefs and myths about attorneys and their roles, and details how our American system of justice works. Icci covers such topics as: Types of lawye...

The Patient Abuse and Neglect of Our Vulnerable Adults: America's Shame - Hardcover

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by Joseph S. Bostwick (Author)Patient abuse and neglect is a daily occurrence in our nation's medical and psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, group homes, and other care facilities. But it is not just in institutional settings where at-risk adults are vulnerable. Crimes of abuse also occur in private homes, beyond the sight of regulators, medical professionals, and even family members. Using real-world examples from Joseph Bostwick's extensive career leading investigations into cases of pat...

Crimes Against Humanity: A Historical Perspective - Hardcover

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by Benjamin Ricci (Author)An accounting of the celebrated, historically significant and precedent-setting class action suit, Robert Simpson Ricci et. al., plaintiffs v. Milton Greenblatt, M.D. et. al., defendants was authored by Benjamin Ricci, retired professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, father and next friend of Robert Simpson Ricci principal plaintiff. Number of Pages: 456 Dimensions: 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 05, 2004

Divorce with Sanity: A Practical Guide to Divorce with Dignity, Self-Respect, and Cooperation. - Paperback

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by Richard S. Rabbin (Author)The sad and tragic truth in the U. S. is that more than 50% of all first marriages end in divorce. Most divorces occur within the existing litigated court process, wherein the divorcing parties are almost required by the very nature of the adversarial process to become antagonistic to each other, waste time and money, and treat children as pawns in their power struggle. The physical, emotional, psychological, and financial costs of litigated divorce can be enormou...

Trial by Jury: The Tactics, Deals, and Decisions That Determined the Outcome of 17 of the Decade's Biggest Legal Cases - Paperback

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by Steven Brill (Editor), Karen McCoy (Editor)From Simon & Schuster, Trial by Jury is Steven Brill's exploration of the tactics, deals, and decisions that determined the outcome of 17 of the decade's biggest legal cases. Analyzes seventeen recent courtroom trials, offering a look at how the American justice system operates, through interviews with attorneys, jurors, and other key personalities.Author BiographySteven Brill is the founder of Journalism Online, a company designed to create a...

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by Geoffrey Cowan (Author), Unknown Author (Author), Dan Madigan (Author)From Simon & Schuster, See No Evil is Geoffrey Cowan's fascinating exploration of the backstage battle over sex and violence in the television medium. In See No Evil, Cowan offers a probing investigation into the history, impact, and politics of television censorship, examining network programming, and such controversial practices as the Family Hour.Author BiographyGeoffrey Cowan is a lawyer, professor, author, and n...

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Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes - Paperback

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by Robert H. Mnookin (Author), Scott R. Peppet (Author), Andrew S. Tulumello (Author)Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don't settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at negotiation, aime...

Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives - Paperback

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by Robert Jackall (Author)Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, base...

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by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Author), G. Edward White (Introduction by)Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. G. Edward White reminds us why the book remains essential reading not only for law students but also for anyone interested in American history. The text published is, with occasional corrections ...

Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation - Hardcover

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by Amy Gajda (Author)Once upon a time, virtually no one in the academy thought to sue over campus disputes, and, if they dared, judges bounced the case on grounds that it was no business of the courts. Tenure decisions, grading curves, course content, and committee assignments were the stuff of faculty meetings, not lawsuits.Not so today. As Amy Gajda shows in this witty yet troubling book, litigation is now common on campus, and perhaps even more commonly feared. Professors sue each other fo...

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by Simon (Editor)The criminal justice process is unavoidably human. Police detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape the course of investigations, while prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. In this sweeping review of psychological research, Dan Simon shows how flawed investigations can produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. The investigator's task is genuinely dif...

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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World - Paperback

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by Samuel Moyn (Author)"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."--Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal "Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."--George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place, economic li...

Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age - Hardcover

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by Stuart P. Green (Author)Theft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet theft law is enigmatic, and fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved--especially misappropriations of intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property. In Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, Stuart Green assesses our current legal framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and wh...

What's Wrong with Children's Rights - Paperback

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by Martin Guggenheim (Author)Children's rights: the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as a whole. From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Martin Guggenheim offers a trenchant analysis of the most significant debates in the children's right...

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by Jill Elaine Hasday (Author)One of the law's most important and far-reaching roles is to govern family life and family members. Family law decides who counts as kin, how family relationships are created and dissolved, and what legal rights and responsibilities come with marriage, parenthood, sibling ties, and other family bonds. Yet despite its significance, the field remains remarkably understudied and poorly understood both within and outside the legal community.Family Law Reimagined is t...

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by Steven D. Smith (Author)This lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudential thought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaise that currently afflicts not only legal theory but law in general. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabulary and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontological commitments that were explicitly articulated by thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even by Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of sync with the world view that pre...

Justifying Intellectual Property - Hardcover

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by Robert P. Merges (Author)Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents--who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for producers of creative works-- from skeptics who emphasize the need for free and open access to knowledge.In a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis, Robert P. Merges establishes a sophisticated rationale for the most vital form of modern property: IP rights. His insigh...

The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire - Paperback

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by Mary Sarah Bilder (Author)Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution--that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances--shaped the lega...

Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice - Hardcover

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by Lee Epstein (Author), William M. Landes (Author), Richard A. Posner (Author)Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to maAuthor BiographyLee Epstein is Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. William...

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by John H. Garvey (Author)We generally suppose that it is our right to freedom which allows us to make the choices that shape our lives. The right to have an abortion is called freedom of choice because, it is said, a woman should be free to choose between giving birth and not doing so. Freedom of speech protects us whether we want to salute the flag or burn it. There is a correlative principle: one choice is as good as another. Freedom is not a right that makes moral judgments. It lets us do...

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by Hovenkamp (Author)After thirty years, the debate over antitrust's ideology has quieted. Most now agree that the protection of consumer welfare should be the only goal of antitrust laws. Execution, however, is another matter. The rules of antitrust remain unfocused, insufficiently precise, and excessively complex. The problem of poorly designed rules is severe, because in the short run rules weigh much more heavily than principles. At bottom, antitrust is a defensible enterprise only if it ...

The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse - Hardcover

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by Smith (Author)Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity. Thus, Rawlsian "public reason" filters appeals to religion or other "co...

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by Elizabeth Price Foley (Author)Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer--that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable f...

First Amendment Institutions - Hardcover

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by Paul Horwitz (Author)Addressing a host of hot-button issues, from the barring of Christian student groups and military recruiters from law schools and universities to churches' immunity from civil rights legislation in hiring and firing ministers, Paul Horwitz proposes a radical reformation of First Amendment law. Arguing that rigidly doctrinal approaches can't account for messy, real-world situations, he suggests that the courts loosen their reins and let those institutions with a stake i...

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by Shugerman (Author)In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious multi-million-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and misconduct. The People's Courts traces the history of judicial elections and Americans' quest for an independent judiciary--one that would ensure fairness for all before the law--from t...

Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues - Hardcover

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by James E. Fleming (Author), Linda C. McClain (Author)Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues--as well as rights--seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not ab...

Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World - Hardcover

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by Jack M. Balkin (Author)Political constitutions, hammered out by imperfect human beings in periods of intense political controversy, are always compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate, argues this daring book, is Americans' enduring faith that the Constitution's promises can someday be redeemed, and the constitutional system be made "a more perfect union."A leading constitutional theorist, Balkin argues eloquently that the American constitutional project is b...