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Informative explanations of liability and computer law.
Perhaps outdated but offering ample food for thought is Sean Melvin's Y2K Business & Legal Survival Guide, which deals with handling the legal aspects of Y2K-related claims. The explanations of liability and computerlaw still apply.

Essential for anyone who needs to contest a ticket
Traffic Court is not about justice,it is about revenue.Books like this for the lay public are essential in protecting your rights.We listed this book on the sbrusa.com website as a recommended book for anyone who usesdrivers in their business (such as vending companies). ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Law    4. Business Software - General    5. Business/Economics    6. Forecasting    7. Law    8. Law and legislation    9. Reference    10. Taxation    11. United States    12. Use Of Computers In Management (General)    13. Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems)   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. General    3. Law    4. Sociology    5. Crime & criminology    6. Non-Classifiable    7. Police & security services    8. Technology: General Issues    9. USA   

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Light reading about a number of serious topics.
This is a short, honest, informally written, unpretentious and mostly amusing account by and about a once common but now fast disappearing type of socially conscious attorney in our big American cities.A late sixties graduate of an elite law school, Geoghegan sought to change the world through the court system, to do well by doing good.Now, some forty years later, he tells us that he settles almost all his civil cases and he details the many ways in which he can't begin to try a criminal one.Geoghegan has also found it necessary to settle in many other, more important respects.He makes less than a first year associate at a large firm.He no longer looks to the courts to upset the status quo.Even as recently as Clinton, he expected intelligence on the federal bench.Now he finds less and less--and that was before Harriet Miers called George W the brightest man she ever met!
Avoid This Book!
The author is a weak, whiny fellow who spends the duration of this slender volume wallowing in self-pity at his wasted life.There are no insights about criminal trials nor criminal justice; the author is too much of a milquetoast to even do anything during the trial other than watch. An Inside look at the justice system
Thomas Geoghegan has done a remarkable job showing both the triumphs and frustrations of a working case in the criminal justice system.The reader follows an appeal of a young man convicted in conspiracy during a robbery that had turned into murder.Geoghegan sits as the second chair (the support attorney) during the appeal. Geoghegan does a wonderful job of explaining that the convicts can actually be nice people and have remorse for their actions.The convicted shooter actually tries to help the young man during appeal by testifying for him, although he has nothing to gain.The reader learns that Geoghegan is surprised to find that the shooter is actually nice and well spoken.The reader follows through the appeal process and learns the law is very different depending what type the lawyer practices.Criminal is much different from civil in which Geoghegan practices.Read more

Subjects:  1. American    2. Anecdotes    3. Criminal Law    4. Criminal Law - General    5. Criminal courts    6. Criminal justice, Administrati    7. Criminal justice, Administration of    8. General    9. Law    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. Practice of law    12. United States    13. Geoghegan, Thomas   

Subjects:  1. Current Affairs    2. Law    3. Legal Profession    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Editorial Review

Reading Martin Garbus's memoir is like sitting in a bar--make that the American Bar Association bar--and listening to the guy on the stool next to you regale you with story after story, each better than the last, about the cases he has worked on in the course of a long career. ... Read more

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Captivating stories from a First Amendment warrior.
What is clear from the accounts of Garbus' battles for freedom of speech is that the struggle to be free or to remain free will never end. Garbus also shows how one person (or a few) can make a huge difference in the freesociety we enjoy today. The book portrays many heros, several scoundrals,and events in the past that all jump off the page in a new light. I'veadded Martin Garbus to my top-ten list of people I would most like to havedinner with because I'd like to find out much more about his exploits indefending our right to hear and read anything others have to say. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Law    3. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Current Events / Law   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law    2. Current Events    3. Current Events / Law    4. Justice and politics    5. Law    6. Law / Military    7. Military    8. Military courts    9. Terrorism    10. Terrorists   

Subjects:  1. Current Affairs    2. General    3. Law   

Subjects:  1. Conflict management    2. International    3. Law    4. Philosophy    5. Religion and law    6. Religious    7. Religious aspects    8. Conflict resolution    9. Religious social & pastoral thought & activity    10. Warfare & Defence   

Subjects:  1. Censorship    2. Education    3. General    4. Law    5. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    6. Politics - Current Events    7. Politics / Current Events    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. Constitutional    2. Current Affairs    3. Emerson, Timothy Joe    4. Firearms    5. Gun control    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Trials litigation, etc    11. United States   

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Vengeance and Forgiveness
The book is a must read to understand the REASON for revenge and the equally important NEED to forgive.

Alan Dershowitz is a sick puppy
I had the opportunity of reading the first chapter of this "masterpiece" in a magazine, and I must say that if Alan Dershowitz thinks that murdering innocent children is some sort of defendable "Just Revenge" then he's not really fit to be making moral and legal arguments. This is a guy who defended O.J. Simpson and who currently advocates turning America into a police state.
What a mind!
This book is suspenseful, surprising, full of wisdom, as well as containing interesting information about the law as well as its limitations in rare cases for the layman. Allen Dershowitz has an emormous talent in this fiction novel to show from all the horrors that began 50 + years ealier, and a deeply affected Holocaust survivor's actions in the present that were legally wrong but morally right,
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Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Fiction/General    2. Audio - Fiction - General    3. Audio Adult: Books On Tape    4. Audiobooks    5. Current Affairs    6. Law    7. Legal    8. Thrillers    9. Fiction / General    10. Jurisprudence & General Issues   

Subjects:  1. American    2. Drama    3. General    4. Plays    5. Current Events / Law    6. H. Kline   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Current Affairs    3. Intellectual property    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. United States   

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"Cast all your anxiety upon Him for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7).
This account of the author's true-life struggle that continues even now is a very strong and inspiring testimony of how God helps us to bear struggles that would overpower and defeat us without His help.Not knowing when nor how life will "throw us the next curve" makes us utterly unable to withstand heartbreaking trials on our own, but having the faith this author demonstrates in a loving and faithful God makes His grace a very tangible resource that will not let us down.

Looking for the light at the end of the tunnel
If you are looking for a book that will help you know God will be with you as you come thru difficulties in life--this is the book for you.Trust in a loving God is evident in the pages of this book.

Review of The Lions and the Adders
If you have ever wanted to read someone else's journal then this is the book for you. The author has opened her heart and her life to her readers. Going thru difficult situations the book proves that hard times builds character and grows faith.
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Subjects:  1. Anna Grace Poschet'    2. Current Events / Law   

Editorial Review

On April 1, 1984, Donna Sabia went into labor expecting twins. But one of the babies arrived stillborn, while the other--Anthony Jr.--was barely alive, with an Apgar score (rating newborn vitality on a scale of 0 to 10) of 1. In the following years, he suffered from spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and cortical blindness, and would require lifelong medical attention costing millions of dollars just to survive. The Sabias' lawyers faulted Donna's maternity clinic and the delivering physician for her son's condition, initiating a 7-year lawsuit on the claim that a simple $40 ultrasound could have eliminated incalculable suffering and catastrophic expense.Read more

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Brilliant!
I am a college student studying to be a medical assistant.I had to write an essay on a specific medical lawsuit for my class "Medical Law and Ethics."I have not read a nonfiction book in years, but once I started reading this book I could not put it down.It is so stimulating, exciting, and brilliant.Mr. Werth had little to work with since there was no court room drama.He did a spectacular job with the resources he had.He is indeed an intelligent writer.I wish him well.

Instructive page turner...
Well written, a gripping story and balanced.I am teaching a course on medical malpractice at the local law school.This book is the text.It provides a frame work to discuss numerous issues and the potential impact - or more accurately non-impact - of many tort reform proposals.

Buy this book!
This is a wonderful book for anyone involved in the litigation process or anyone involved in the health care field. Read more

Subjects:  1. 1984-    2. Attorney and client    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Cases    5. Connecticut    6. Developmentally disabled children    7. Health/Fitness    8. Law    9. Lawyers & Judges    10. Legal status, laws, etc.    11. Litigation    12. Malpractice    13. Medical - General    14. Medical Law & Legislation    15. Obstetricians    16. Sabia, Tony,    17. Social Law    18. Trials, litigation, etc    19. Current Events / Law    20. Modern fiction    21. Sabia, Tony   

Subjects:  1. Current Events / Law    2. Political Science / Reference    3. Current Affairs    4. Law    5. Political Science    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Reference   

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It takes courage to speak an unpopular truth
ok, there is always bias....but so much bias goes against Michael that its only fair to see the other side...andother side that might just change your mind. This is the second published account od the 1993 events that follow this as an extortion attempt, the other was a GQ article: "was michael Jackson Framed"
Revelation
Thank God someone finally wrote a book telling the truth.Although the book may not be as obective as some would prefer, it is factual in a way that many news reports regarding Jackson have not been.If anything, this book allows the reader to get some facts to consider side by side with what they have heard in the popular media and tabloids.So much of what is written here is obscured from the public.Let the people get a fair and balanced account of what happened and decide for themselves.I think that people of goodwill will decide after considering all the facts that: Michael Jackson made some naive decisions in who he allowed to cohabitate with him; Michael Jackson genuinely loves children in a non-sexual way which may be viewed as inappropriate by some, but certainly not criminal; Michael Jackson is a generous person; Many people want to exploit Michael Jackson for financial gain; Evan Chandler is capable of extortion and had the means, motive and opportunity to exploit the situation with his son; Jordie Chandler is a victim of parental exploitation; Michael Jackson is probably innocent of the crimes that he was accused of in 1993 as well as in 2005; and finally, because Michael Jackson settled with the Chandler family, and has admitted to sharing his bedroom with children, he has made himself vulnerable to more accusations.This book is a must read for those who are honestly seeking a full picture of the accusations against Michael Jackson and the motivations behind them.

MAKES SOME GOOD POINTS
Ok, let me start by saying that the start and end of this book should have been edited out.
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Subjects:  1. Current Events / Law    2. Michael Jackson, Child Molestation, Law, Geraldine Hughes   

Subjects:  1. Capital punishment    2. Current Events / Law    3. General    4. Law / Criminal Law    5. Law / Criminal Procedure    6. Law / Human Rights    7. Political Science / Civil Rights    8. Social Science / Criminology    9. Social Science / Penology    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Criminal Procedure    13. Current Events - Legal    14. Human Rights    15. Legal System   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. Current Events / Law    5. Thomas E. Bumgardner   

Subjects:  1. Current Affairs    2. Law    3. Politics/International Relations