legal stories

Rookie lawyer Rudy Baylor gets in over his head on his first case when he agrees to take on a large insurance company for non-payment of claims, with only his partner Deck Shifflet--a man who has failed the bar exam six times--for help.

"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--Provided by publisher.

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.

"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Two years after choosing his mother in a Christmas-season custody hearing, Truman Capote runs away to spend Christmas in Monroeville, Alabama, with best friend, Nelle Harper Lee, who gives him courage to stay true to himself.

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

When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a supicious increase in standardized test scores at a local middle school, aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal.

With the help of his older sister, his three best friends, and his elderly neighbor, sixth grader Sam Warren brings a class action suit against the Los Angeles School Board, arguing that homework is unconstitutional, and his case goes all the way to the Supreme Court.

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.