legal stories

Lina Sparrow, an ambitious lawyer working on a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves, learns that the art of revered painter Lu Anne Bell is suspected to be that of her house slave, Josephine, and seeks a descendant of Josephine to join the lawsuit.

A dark episode from college haunts Kyle McAvoy's future after he graduates from Yale and takes a shady job at a large law firm where his new employer blackmails him into unethical work, which includes a scheme that could put Kyle in jail or even get him killed.

The life choices of a mother and daughter are reassessed as the mother lies dying of cancer.

Mahindan and his six-year-old son, Sellian, finally escape the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka on a rusty cargo ship, together with 500 other refugees. They reach Vancouver Island safely, but then the trouble starts when authorities accuse their group, the "boat people," of harboring members of a terrorist group. Mahindan fears the things he had to do, desperately, to survive and escape Sri Lanka have finally caught up to him, and fears for Sellian's future.

A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground while trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of two Supreme Court Justices.

Tod, an investigator for his father, fiery trial attorney Bomber Hanson, embarks on an exploration of the background of Merilee Scioria after her parents charge she was the victim of a drug therapy that caused her to develop a fatal disease, most often associated with sexual contact.

Ellen Gulden begins to resent her father after he asks her to come home and care for her dying mother, and, as Ellen and her mother reconnect, Ellen becomes even more estranged from her father and her former life, until a devastating event causes Ellen to re-examine everything she has ever known.

A respected lawyer becomes a serial killer of sexual predators after his fifteen-year-old daughter is raped.

Young lawyer Paul Cravath agrees to defend George Westinghouse as he's sued by Thomas Edison over rights to invention of the light bulb. Launched into the two men's world of high society, Paul's obsessive pursuit of victory will lead him to Nikola Tesla, the brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison. Based on true events.