Biography & Autobiography : Lawyers & Judges

Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and ......

Being a call girl isn't really about the money and the sex - it's about the excitement and the experiences... A high-class call girl in New York City...

Masonry and ink. Imposing buildings and books are what first come to mind when the subject of "law" is broached. Without people, there would be no need for ......

While most people will never be charged with a serious crime, either you or someone you know has appeared in a Municipal Court. Municipal Court is usually a ......

The night before his seventh birthday, Peter Ney and his family were awakened by the sound of yelling and of breaking glass as their home was vandalized. Kri......

Early in his young adult life, Vern Miller recognized that laws provide the fabric of society; he wanted to be a part of it. As a boy he aspired to...

Feel the passion and intensity of big game fishing. Fish for the much sought after and elusive king of the ocean, the blue marlin. In this true story,...

Several people are waiting to greet Captain Vivian Gembara when she returns home after a year-long tour of duty in Iraq--her grateful fiancŠ and two officer......

THIS BOOK MAKES CLEAR HENRY S. MANLEY'S STATURE AS A SIGNIFICANT FIGURE REGARDING NEW YORK STATE AND, MORE BROADLY, UNITED STATES, LEGAL AND NATIVE AMERICAN ......

Harkjoon Paik left his native Korea in the midst of war. His home destroyed and his educational opportunities lost, he left everything and everyone behind in......

Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the ......

It was a hot August day in 1920 when a man rode on horseback away from his forty-acre Arkansas farm to fetch a doctor. His son, Gerald Brown, was about...

What would cause a highly successful criminal defense lawyer to leave his steady stream of clients, his comfortable suburban home and his idyllic life with a......

In 1953, Peter Mooney decided to forsake the stately precincts of Parliament House and the Advocates Library in the historic city of Edinburgh and accept the......

In publishing the human stories behind the late-19th-century cases of Magistrate James Boyer in Bracebridge, Ontario, and Muskoka, his great-grandson J. Patr......

Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the...

A fascinating account of the personal experiences of various cases undertaken by 19th century English lawyer Samuel Warren. Author: Warren, Samuel Publisher......

This long overdue biography elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken publi......

A biography of the driving force behind the Warren Court’s most progressive decisions, based on exclusive interviews with Brennan and unprecedented acc......

On the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, John Ashcroft raised his right hand and vowed, "I swear to unhold the laws of the United States of Amer......