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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture. My Own Words offers...

There is no seat in this system from which you can do nothing. Every seat is therefore responsible, weighted by what it knows and what it can move. A community association is a deterministic system with a fifty-year memory. Nothing in it is random. A reserve study read or shelved. A policy...

Most people do not think about asset protection until something goes wrong.A lawsuit. A business dispute. A tenant injury. A professional complaint. A divorce.One event can expose years of work, savings, and planning to legal and financial risk.Asset Protection Explained is a practical guide to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ce livre audio est lu par une voix générée par intelligence artificielle. Le droit des testaments est une branche fondamentale du droit privé anglais. Il encadre la transmission du patrimoine après le décès, la validité des testaments, la...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz generada mediante inteligencia artificial. El derecho testamentario es una rama fundamental del derecho privado inglés. Regula la transmisión del patrimonio tras el fallecimiento, la validez de los testamentos...

Direito Penal - 1. Princípios Penais Fundamentais - Reserva legal Direito Penal - 1.⁠ ⁠Princípios Penais Fundamentais - Intervenção Mínima Direito Penal - 1.⁠ ⁠Princípios Penais Fundamentais - Ofensividade ou Lesividade Direito Penal - 2.⁠ ⁠⁠Teoria da Norma Penal - Normas...

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade Direito...

Choosing a career in the creative industries is a defiant undertaking-and protecting your livelihood requires more than just talent.This whole industry is fueled by dreams that will statistically never come true. Yet, on the hopeful side, the barriers to entry have never been lower, and the...

A critical examination of the threats to our bodily and digital autonomy under government and corporate surveillance and how we can delay, disrupt, and deconstruct the data industrial complex. From our smartphones and watches to our credit card taps in the subway and Bluetooth in our cars, we...

A riveting and suspenseful true David and Goliath story of a young lawyer, a corporate cover-up, and the trial of a lifetime. Trial attorney John Uustal’s memoir of his experience in a landmark 1998 case against General Motors is both a powerful drama and a personal history of corporate...

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The astonishing true story of Glasgow gangland confidant James McIntyre, aka Jimmy Two Guns James 'Jimmy Two Guns' McIntyre was Glasgow's go-to gangland lawyer and consigliere to one of Scotland's foremost crime families. His maverick approach to the law and a client list that included some of...

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for 23 hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt?

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics...

Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In the radio speech after this meeting, Pétain said 'It is I alone who will be judged by History.' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judegment - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. The police receive one phone call per minute about domestic violence. Now is the time for change. Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are...

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials...

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate—his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize—Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases, he then became England's premier advocate.