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Lacy Stoltz es una joven investigadora y abogada de Florida, y su trabajo consiste en responder a las demandas relacionadas con la mala praxis judicial. Tras nueve años en el puesto, sabe que la mayor parte de los problemas (More) derivan de incompetencias.
De repente le llega un caso de corrupción. Greg Myers afirma conocer un juez de Florida que ha robado más dinero que el resto de los jueces poco honestos juntos. Estaba involucrado en secreto con la construcción de un gran casino en tierras indígenas. La mafia financió el casino y ahora se lleva cada mes una buena tajada de la caja mensual. El juez también se lleva su parte y mira hacia otro lado. Todos contentos.
Pero ahora Greg quiere poner punto final a esta situación. Su único cliente conoce la verdad y quiere contarlo todo. Greg presenta una denuncia y el caso se le asigna a Lacy Stoltz, quien de inmediato sospecha que puede ser peligroso.
Pero el peligro es una cosa y la muerte, otra muy distinta.

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with (More) no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who’d been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer. And a thief.

Michael Brock è un avvocato di Washington che lavora per un importante studio legale nel campo dell’antitrust; un giorno viene sequestrato assieme ad altri suoi colleghi da un senza tetto che si fa chiamare Mister. Quest’ultimo (More) non chiarisce il motivo del suo gesto, solo chiede di sapere chi si occupa degli sfratti prima che un cecchino lo uccida. Michael, sconvolto da questa esperienza, si sente sempre più insofferente alla sua vita di sempre fatta di ottanta ore a settimana di lavoro e da un matrimonio che non funziona perché l’ufficio assorbe tutto il suo tempo e l’ospedale, dove lavora la moglie chirurgo.
Allora inizia ad avvicinarsi a Mordecai Green, un avvocato impegnato nel sociale, e una notte si reca in una casa di accoglienza per i senza tetto a fare del volontariato. Lì viene in contatto con Lontae Burton, una giovane madre tossicodipendente con 4 figli che vive in una macchina.

Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Streenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There’s been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His (More) reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him–and dangerous threats looming–Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence–even if it means breaking a few rules. Filled with the intrigue and page-turning suspense that made John Grisham a #1 international best-seller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller, Theodore Boone’s adventures will keep readers enthralled until the very last page.

The Client (1993) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. It is Grisham’s fourth novel.
The novel begins when eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his (More) younger brother, Ricky, are in the woods near the mobile home park they live in with their mother, Dianne. A man driving a Cadillac arrives by where they are smoking cigarettes. W. Jerome “Romey” Clifford, a 44-year-old lawyer from New Orleans, Louisiana, gets out. It quickly becomes apparent that the noticeably drunk Clifford is intending to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning when he inserts a garden hose into the car’s exhaust pipe and runs it to the car window.

In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk—and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a (More) great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom.
But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected. Because he knows so much—maybe too much—he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth.
The stakes are high, but Theo won’t stop until justice is served.

When we last saw Theo Boone, he ensured that justice was served by uncovering evidence that kept a guilty man off of the streets. Hot off this high-profile murder trial, thirteen-year-old Theo is still dispensing legal advice to (More) friends and teachers. But just when it seems as if his life has calmed down and gone back to the status quo, a new legal mystery comes to town, and this time it’s personal.

En una pequeña ciudad de Misisipi, un domingo de octubre de 1988 se encuentra el cadáver de Seth Hubbard, un acaudalado propietario, colgado de un árbol. En su casa ha dejado una nota de suicidio, donde cuenta que ha decidido (More) acabar con los sufrimientos que le ocasionaba el cáncer de pulmón que padecía.
El racismo sigue siendo un elemento palpable en esta localidad. Jake Brigance, un abogado blanco, es uno de los pocos sin prejuicios raciales. El lunes por la mañana, Jake recibe un sobre con el nuevo testamento de Hubbard, que revoca el anterior, y con el que el difunto deshereda a sus dos ex esposas y a sus hijos. El noventa por ciento de sus propiedades las heredará Letitia Lang, una mujer negra a quien Hubbard contrató para las labores domésticas hace tres años, y que después se convirtió en su cuidadora.