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The Lifer and the Lawyer

The Lifer and the Lawyer
Author: George Critchlow
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1725278383

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It is true that some people are very damaged. It is not true that they are all unsalvageable. The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, religion, race, the purpose of punishment, and a criminal justice system that requires harmless old men to die in prison. It is a true story about Michael Anderson, an aging African American man who grew up poor and abused on Chicago's south side and became a violent and predatory criminal. Anderson has now spent the last forty-three years in prison as a result of a 1978 crime spree that took place in southeastern Washington. The book describes his spiritual and moral transformation in prison and challenges society's assumption that he was an irredeemable monster. It also tells the story of the author's evolving relationship with Anderson that began in 1979 when Critchlow, a young white lawyer from a privileged background, was appointed to defend Anderson on twenty-two violent felony charges. For Anderson, this is a story about overcoming childhood trauma and learning how to empathize and love through faith and self-knowledge. For Critchlow, the story also raises questions about how we become who we are--about race, culture, and opportunity. Finally, the book is a revealing commentary on our criminal justice system's obsession with life sentences.


A Life in the Law

A Life in the Law
Author: William S. Duffey
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604425963

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This book offers a unique opportunity to sit down with a diverse gathering of lawyers to share their perspectives on being a lawyer. In this compelling collection of essays, the contributors write about the values of the profession, a lawyers responsibility to their communities, their duty of service to clients, and to the public and to each other. This book can provide the guidance you need should you ever feel that you are losing your way.


The Life of the Law

The Life of the Law
Author: Alfred H. Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195122399

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Knight outlines how some of the main contours of American law came to be as he recounts 21 stories beginning with Alfred the Great in the late 19th century and ending with the Rodney King trials in 1993.


The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work
Author: George W. Kaufman
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590316740

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The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. In the end, this book will support you whether you stay in the law, shift your law practice, or move on to other work. This book is the tool you need to make healthy decisions and welcome the passion back into your life!


Law V. Life

Law V. Life
Author: Walt Bachman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1995
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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The author "describes the unique stresses lawyers face, the increasing demands of the legal marketplace, the "moral neutering" imposed by a lawyers' ethical duty of advocacy, some blunt truths about clients, and the deep tensions between lawyers' professional and personal lives."


John Marshall, a life in law

John Marshall, a life in law
Author: Leonard Baker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1974
Genre: U.S. Supreme Court
ISBN: 9780025063600

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Comprehensive biography of John Marshall, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and fourth Chief Justice of the United States.


Moving the Bar

Moving the Bar
Author: Michael Ratner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781682192504

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"Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was also the President of the National Lawyers Guild. Ratner handled some of the most significant cases In American history. This book tells why and how he did it. His last case, which he worked on until he died, was representing truth-telling whistleblower and now political prisoner Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks. Ratner "moved the bar" by organizing some 600 lawyers to successfully defend habeas corpus, that is, the ancient right of someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer and to be brought before a judge. Michael had a piece of paper taped on the wall next to his desk at the CCR. It read: 4 key principles of being a radical lawyer: 1. Do not refuse to take a case just because it is long odds of winning in court. 2. Use cases to publicize a radical critique of US policy and to promote revolutionary transformation. 3. Combine legal work with political advocacy. 4. Love people. Compelling and instructive, Moving the Bar is an indispensable manual for the next generation of activists and their lawyers"--Publisher's description.