Something Unfortunate
2nd Edition
Published on 25. April 2021
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-4-86745-973-7 (ISBN)
Description
At some point, every lawyer will encounter a client from hell.
Kelly Adair finds herself in this exact situation, defending a lawyer accused of killing another. A power struggle within the Dallas law firm Christopher Clark & Oliver has left partner Ken Hargrove dead and Frank Oliver on trial.
Convinced that her client might be guilty but bolstered by accounts of Oliver's irrational behavior, she decides to rely upon an insanity defense at trial. Soon, the resulting courtroom drama threatens to tear the firm apart.
Will Kelly have hell to pay?
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-86745-973-7 (9784867459737)
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ABOUT THE EDITORMIKE FARRIS, the elder son of Dr. T.V. "Corky" Farris," is a retired attorney whose law practice in Dallas included commercial litigation and entertainment law focusing on the movie and publishing industries. He is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the honor society Order of the Coif. He has served as chair of the Dallas Bar Association's Entertainment Art and Sports Law Section and the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section, where he also served as editor of the section's Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.Mike is a multi-time published author of both fiction and nonfiction, including the Amazon best-selling Hawaiian true crime book, A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow. His most recent non-fiction book, the Amazon bestselling Blowhard: Windbaggery and the Wretched Ethics of Clarence Darrow, is an analysis of, and commentary on, four seminal cases in the career of Clarence Darrow.Mike is also an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, and a course of his design called Lawyers in Popular Culture. In addition to writing and teaching at UTA, he is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, with more than 85 published reviews.