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Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xix, 263 pages).
Language
English
Description
"Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime. This book explores the experiences of professionals within Top 50 law firms when seeking to comply with the UK's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. The book draws upon empirical evidence from in-depth interviews with solicitors and compliance personnel from 20 Top 50 law firms. Access to...
12) The witnesses
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wrong hands, a spiritual gift can be more dangerous than a deadly weapon. Parker House is a young lawyer working for a small, struggling firm in New Bern, North Carolina. His uncanny ability to anticipate an opponent's next move is earning him a reputation as a formidable adversary in the courtroom. With this inherited supernatural gift, Parker enjoys remarkable success, even besting one of the most powerful attorneys in the state, who then...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story--the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897. Despite her mother's misgivings, willful Zona Heaster marries Erasmus Trout Shue, the blacksmith. Weeks later Mary Jane Heaster receives word that Zona died from a fall, attributed to a recent illness. Determined to get justice for her daughter, she informs the county prosecutor that Zona's ghost appeared to her, saying that she had been murdered; an autopsy confirms her claim. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Consigned...
18) Lawyers at work
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer
Pub. Date
Ã2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"With probing questions and articulate answers, Cosslett and her subjects shed light on the challenges of legal practice in the current legal market." BLS Law Notes, 11.16.12 Lawyers at Work reveals what it means and what it takes to be a satisfied, sane, and successful lawyer in today?s tough legal marketplace. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a top legal headhunter gives the 3rd degree to 15 successful lawyers who run the gamut of the legal...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades"--
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