DescriptionRudy Baker's world collapses when the law firm he was due to join is taken over. Suddenly, just before his bar examination, he is without employment and up to his neck in debt. His whole future hinges on his only two prospective clients. One is an ecce…
DescriptionThe Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there for too long and dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another senseless murder. But as he investigates, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy. He finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of huge settlement that would make him the legal profession's newest king of torts.
DescriptionIn Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the juror's increasingly odd behaviour. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? And, more importantly, why?
DescriptionThe work was hard and dirty. Men told them to go home. But they needed the money, and they were too proud to quit. In the 1970s and '80s, as women around the country began taking jobs once reserved for men, a few women started driving trucks and digging i…
DescriptionWhen the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn't think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paid job. What she hadn't considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resisted the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner. Relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults, the women largely kept quiet for fear of losing their jobs, until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint in 1984. From Jenson's first day on the job, through three intensely humiliating trials, to the emotional day of the settlement, this is the thrilling story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States.
