Given the exigencies of the time, Fomite offers a series of bound pamphlets on urgent political, social, cultural, and organizing issues from a radical, anti-capitalist viewpoint.

From renowned trial attorney and New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence: a must own book for every lawyer and business professional seeking to make cutting-edge winning presentations--in court, at work, everywhere, any time.Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when he argues on behalf of ordinary people. Frequently pitted against te...

As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to do good and do well at the same time. We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with law as ...

"A remarkable chronicle . . . related with honesty and compassion," this ethnography reveals "the impact of probation and parole practices on one community" ( Publisher Weekly).The War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her observat...

THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS To succeed in law school, you have to construct solid legal arguments. THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS will teach you how to master this craft. This step-by-step approach, written by career prosecutors Gary Fidel and Linda Cantoni, is the indispensable guide for law students.

A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom "game" and a career spent defending the guiltyAs an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman's duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented. His job was to co...

Custody of children becomes a major issue when a couple divorces. Worse, these issues can linger long after the settlement in the form of parent alienationwhen one parent seeks to keep the other parent from being active and involved with the children they share. In Parental-Alienation Playbook and Three-Quarters Custody, author Julian Andrews presents an overview of parent-alienation syndrome (PAS), how you can recognize when its happening to you, and how to speak out to defend you and you...

Reviewed By Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' FavoriteThe Murder of Jeffrey Dryden: The Grim Truth Surrounding Male Domestic Abuse by Troy Veenstra is an account of the circumstances surrounding the death of Jeffrey Dryden. In the early hours of July 18th in 2010, Jeffrey Dryden returned home after spending some time with his twin brother. Within minutes, he was dead, stabbed in the neck by his girlfriend, Chiquita. She was arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of Jeff ...

Learning about crime paysMost people watch television shows such as Law and Order and see a simplified version of the world of cops and courtrooms. In fact, the American criminal justice system is one of the most complex legal establishments in the world. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Criminal Justice System de-mystifies the complexity of the judicial establishment and the bureaucracy behind it in a clear, jargon-free and detailed po...

A collection of courtroom cases and their verdicts that explores the effectiveness—or not—of the American juridical system.A drug dealer gets shot in a hotel parking lot—is the hotel liable?Do workers have a right to organize when they're illegal aliens?Can the KKK march in New York City where there's a law against congregating in masks? YOU BE THE JUDGE!Here is Court TV's riveting compilation of one hundred actual court cases, ranging from the sil...

Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate. And as the attorney for numerous high-profile cli...

The first book of legal advice for the hip hop generation, Covering areas ranging from how to secure the best public defender to what to do when driving DWB, this is a step-by-step guide to the criminal system for those who need it most written by a criminal defense attorney who knows this world from the inside out.A counterpoint to the Law and Order justice the public sees and believes in. This is the real criminal justice system, as told from someone inside, some...