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Secrets to keep volume 1
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Kregel Publications
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2024.
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"Putman's legal expertise shines in this compelling and intricately plotted romantic suspense. Highly recommended!" --Colleen Coble, USA Today best-selling author Janae Simmons left the small town of Kedgewick, Virginia, ten years ago to pursue her legal career and never looked back--until a professional mistake leads her to her grandmother's historic carriage house and to the town where her past threatens to find her. The quiet streets echo with...
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An attempted takeover of a West Virginia penitentiary goes badly, and a violent race riot breaks out among the prison population resulting in multiple injuries and deaths. Successful civil trial lawyer, Jack Fabian, is appointed to represent an indigent African American inmate who is accused of brutally murdering a White inmate during the melee. The lawyer is faced with the dilemma of representing a defendant who has been caught on prison surveillance...
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The whispers begin when Leo Davies, charming, clever barrister in one of London's most prestigious chambers, applies to take silk. Despite a life of seemingly unflawed social and professional brilliance, Leo has made a mistake: he is suspected of having a lurid and peculiar sexual past. With too many skeletons in his closet, Leo decides that in order to achieve the coveted position of Queen's Council, the rumors must be scotched. And as desperate...
5) El juicio
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Un abogado listo para morir acepta su último caso… el juicio de su vida.El abogado Kent Mac McClain ya no tiene motivos para vivir. Nueve años después del terrible accidente que se cobró la vida de su esposa y sus dos hijos, finalmente se da por vencido. Su casa vacía es un espejo de su alma vacía. Parecería que el suicidio es la única salida. Pero suena el teléfono.Angela Hightower, una hermosa heredera, hija del hombre más poderoso de...
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Many lawyers find the practice of law intolerable. It simply stinks. "So why don't you leave it?" they say. "Why not find another job? Your law degree is valuable!" They don't know what they're talking about. For most lawyers, switching careers simply isn't an option. We have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The only answer is to find some way to make it tolerable. This book is designed to do just that - help lawyers who hate the law find some way...
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Hawaiian Phoenix
Born to a dying prostitute mother and a rich playboy Irish father. Raised by two loving native Hawaiians who gave him life guiding values. Powered by a fast mind and very athletic physique Brian Oneill's life was similar to the "Rise of the Phoenix". He was to rise to heights far beyond those around him.
Brian's ambitions, his intellect and the guidance of his Hawaiian parents inspired him to develop himself. He pursued his learning...
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Charlie Walden is the Resident Judge of the Bermondsey Crown Court, where he had hoped for a quiet life, but has found it to be anything but. With the job of balancing the needs of prosecutors, judges, 'Grey Smoothies', the humourless grey-suited civil servants, and the overall needs of a Crown Court he soon finds himself struggling to keep the peace and his own delightful humour.
Charlie is faced with a number of topical issues he hadn't anticipated;...
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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Despite all that was revealed about Ian Ramsey's crimes during the Hope Kane criminal trial, Ramsey is still walking the streets as a free man. Prosecutors are hesitant to indict a powerful man like Ian Ramsey, unless they are presented with irrefutable evidence that will guarantee a conviction. Until Ramsey is tried and convicted of his crimes, Hope and her friends, Edward Miller and Annie Sharpe, must live each day in fear of Ramsey taking revenge...
11) Key Witness
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To reclaim his integrity, a corporate lawyer takes on an unwinnable case After years at the top of his game, Wyatt Matthews has hit rock bottom. Though his bank account is bursting and his law practice is thriving, Wyatt takes no joy in his work. Seeking meaning, he volunteers for six months as a public defender, where he finds that the legal system is an ugly place for those who can't afford top-notch help. In one of his first cases, he arranges...
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Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron.
Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra.
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas?
Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek ha llegado la hora de saber qué fue lo que pasó ese día, hace justo un año, cuando el trágico incendio de aquella cápsula hiperbárica cambió la vida de todos para siempre.
¿Es posible que sea verdad...
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Recurrir al derecho comparado ya no es solo una cuestión de necesidad impulsada por los procesos de globalización e internacionalización del derecho, sino también un asunto de buena educación jurídica. El jurista bien educado comprende que, para conocer su propio derecho, debe conocer otros sistemas jurídicos. Este libro estudia esta rama del derecho, que constituye una herramienta imprescindible que profesores, jueces, abogados y estudiantes...
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Get the Summary of David Farber's The War on Drugs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The War on Drugs" by David Farber traces the complex history of drug regulation and prohibition in the United States, from the early 20th century to the present day. The book examines the ambivalent attitudes toward substances like alcohol, opium, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis, leading to various legislative efforts to control...
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He used to relish putting suspects in jail, but in his latest case, Luke Garrison-now a defense attorney-will stop at nothing to save a man accused of murder During a sleepover with her two friends, Emma goes missing. The owners of a local news network, her parents have money and power. As the police scour the city, Emma's father offers a $250,000 reward for his daughter's safe return. Eight days after the abduction, two hikers find her. Emma has...
16) Anonymous Lawyer
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A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary's desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started a weblog to tell the world about what life...
17) Code 13
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THE U.S. NAVY'S BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF DRONES LANDS TWO NAVY JAG OFFICERS IN THE GUN SIGHTS OF A KILLER.
Caroline is just getting her feet wet at the prestigious Code 13, but is thankful for at least one familiar face-her old flame, P.J. MacDonald. He loops her into the assignment he is currently working on-the legality of a proposed drone-sharing contract with Homeland Security that would allow the sale of drones for domestic surveillance....
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From the best-selling author of The Defense, a spellbinding sequel: The Prosecution.
It was a one-way ticket out of his self-imposed isolation and into the courtroom on the right side of justice. It was a favor for his old friend Judge Horace Woolner. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to serve as special prosecutor in a case against a man sworn to uphold the law, Marshall Goodwin, the chief deputy district attorney accused of having his former wife...
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Hope Scott...
She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price; a blackmail, the rape of her trust fund, and perhaps the ruin of her marriage.
Judge Paul Murray...
He fought his way up from his working-class Irish roots to the Federal bench. Tough and honest, dedicated to the law, he relishes sitting...
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West Virginia attorney, Jack Fabian, is a battle-tested, hard-drinking personal injury trial lawyer concentrating his practice on medical malpractice plaintiffs' cases. He's developed a penchant for big spending, expensive airplanes, top-shelf booze, and luxury vacations. In 2005, he finds himself feeling the adverse effects of the recently enacted, repressive medical malpractice tort reform law in his state that has dulled his enthusiasm for the...
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