Lawyers & Judges

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452526867Author Anita JetnikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Balboa Press AustraliaPublisher Balboa Press AustraliaWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439196861Author Edward Bennett WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 455g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039153257Author William C CostopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982982877Author Edgar Freeman SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Copano Bay PressPublisher Copano Bay PressWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

One of the least publicly recognised heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark...

Bridging Revolutions examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O'Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South's transition from a slave to a free society. Joseph A...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997698404Author Susan Berry CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Gilpin Park PressPublisher Gilpin Park PressWeight(grams) 481g

The inspiring memoir of a man The New York Times has called a "power broker with blarney in his pen." James F. Gill is one of the most influential New Yorkers you've never heard of. Now a senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Gill...

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice. Paul Hicks portrays Lumpkin as both...

Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999622209Author Susan L StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Take Flight PressPublisher Take Flight PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in...

Few people have played a more important role in the history of Texas than William Pitt Ballinger. Though not as well known as legendary figures Stephen F. Austin or Sam Houston, Ballinger is one of those individuals whose behind-the-scenes life had a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838489Author Patricia BosworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 552gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615331102Author James FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint James FordPublisher James FordWeight(grams) 989g

After a successful career as a law professor and government regulator, William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. During his thirty-six years on the court, he became known as one of its most outspoken and...

It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300417Author Nelson JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087866024Author Gay Majure WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cheryl Gay WilsonPublisher Cheryl Gay WilsonWeight(grams) 145g

Judge Anthony Alaimo's life is a metaphor for quintessential American values: courage, hard work, patriotism, compassion. This biography does not dwell in the realm of metaphorical; it plunges us into the day-to-day life of an immigrant family struggling...

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana,'' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894-1910) and then as the ninth...

When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his< honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the law, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806149165Author Amina HassanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 590g

Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award (Nonfiction) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780767916363Author Kevin MeridaFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692860496Author Sterling DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Raised in the Game, LLCPublisher Raised in the Game, LLCWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345904Author Lois Gerber FrankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 417g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984020454Author Sandra A. SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Pacific Raven PressPublisher Pacific Raven PressWeight(grams) 148g

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595170234Author Diane HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 16mm

The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional tyranny and saved American democracyIn this startling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345898Author Lois Gerber FrankeFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 572g

As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day...

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening...

In this life of Walter Clark, the author tells of an antebellum boyhood on a Carolina plantation and a long career of involvement in the bitterest sociopolitical battles the state of North Carolina has known, which won Clark a national reputation as a...

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening...

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, ""Our Constitution is color-blind."" But in other judicial decisions--as well as in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990437697Author Jan CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Bold Truth PublishingPublisher Bold Truth PublishingWeight(grams) 422g