From hustling crack on a corner to practicing law in a courtroom…this is my story! My journey will inspire you! I am living proof that despite your past, your dreams can still come true. This book is a MUST read for parents who want to inspire their children, along with mentors, coaches, teachers, professors, administrators and pastors to …
From Stethoscope to Gavel: Of becoming a doctor, lawyer and judge.
Dr. Harry Rein has lived an extraordinary life. He has been a refugee, soldier, husband, father, doctor, lawyer, and judge, and to the best of his knowledge, the only doctor-lawyer-judge in the United States. His path begins when he boards the last train out of Austria after Hitler’s annexation, followed by remaining one step ahead of destruction …
From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.In addition to bank robbers–generally the dumbest criminals–Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, …
As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful …
Michelle Obama in her Own Words: The Views and Values of America’s First Lady
The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions, even her appearance, but few people know what kind …
Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays in In Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court. In addition to reflecting the personal experiences of the law clerks with their justices, the essays reveal how clerks are chosen, what tasks are assigned to them, and how the …
Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America. In this illuminating and …
A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents—Cameron Douglas, son of film actor Michael Douglas—and who soon makes the mistake of her life. Or does she?Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney’s account of the criminal justice system as seen through the prism of a particular …
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray (1910-1985)is regarded as “one of the least discussed figures in the history of twentieth-century African American women’s activism.” She was a highly regarded Feminist, who called attention to the plight of women, especially the colored and working poor. Roy …
America’s most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz reveals …