legal stories

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when the man convicted of that crime is paroled nine years after receiving a life sentence and jury members from the trial begin turning up dead.

For a class assignment, law student Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens. He stumbles onto one of the largest cases of insurance fraud ever seen.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.

Bright young law clerk Ben Addison leaves himself open to blackmail when he inadvertently reveals the confidential outcome of an upcoming Supreme Court decision, and when he turns to his housemates for help, he drags them with him into a life-threatening situation.

When Julia Fox's husband and step-daughter are found murdered, Lomax, her lover, works to prove her innocence and uncovers dark secrets about the family.

When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.

Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

Tony Lord, having left town at the age of seventeen under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend was found raped and murdered, finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past when he returns over twenty years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student.

Beautiful young attorney Anne Murphy, shocked to find her picture and a report of her death on the front page of the newspaper, realizes that Willa, the new friend who was caring for Anne's cat while she vacationed at the shore, was murdered in her place, most likely by a stalker who had tried to kill Anne once before.

Fiona Maye, a London judge approaching the age of sixty, is forced to confront her crumbling marriage while she faces a difficult case in which a seventeen-year-old boy dying of leukemia is denied blood transfusions by his parents due to the family's religious beliefs.