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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better;...
3) The firm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitchell Y. McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife Abby move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life. Soon Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm's management is...
5) Sycamore Row
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new,...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
Author
Language
English
Description
Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
...Series
Bibliographies and indexes in popular culture volume no. 9
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
10) The first kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Single mother Vera Waltham pushes away her playboy lawyer neighbor, James Knightley, in order to protect both herself and her daughter, but when problems from Vera's past threaten everything she loves, James is the only one she can turn to for help.
11) The runaway jury
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
12) Summer dreams
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When she plays Booth DeWitt's cruel ex-wife in his film, actress Ariel Kirkwood has trouble getting Booth interested in her offstage, and lion trainer Jovilette Wilder falls for Keane Prescott, a lawyer who inherits ownership of the circus.
13) You be the jury
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Based on actual cases but using fictitious names, ten courtroom mysteries are presented for the reader to solve.
14) The killing kind
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
He tells you you're special...As a barrister, Ingrid Lewis is used to dealing with tricky clients, but no one has ever come close to John Webster. After Ingrid defended Webster against a stalking charge, he then turned on her - following her, ruining her relationship, even destroying her home. He tells you he wants to protect you...Now, Ingrid believes she has finally escaped his clutches. But when one of her colleagues is run down on a busy London...
17) Circle of lies
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Defending a childhood friend who has been accused of murdering a law partner, former NYPD detective-turned-lawyer John Delaney is approached by a mysterious woman who reveals links between the case and a corrupt pharmaceutical company.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists conspire against him. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after an inexplicably tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from...