Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Lawyers & Judges

Philip's remarkable career in law in London led to recommendations, from which he gained unprecedented access to leading lights in politics and the trade unions. He warns about the many pitfalls that trap the unwary, even what happened to a High Court judge He recounts many fascinating events, beginning with a landmark case while articled, all the way through acting for such colourful clients as impresarios, actors, airline captains, and members of both houses of Parliament, to ultimately being chosen out of thousands of solicitors by the Prime Minister himself for his Party's prestigious...

Philip's remarkable career in law in London led to recommendations, from which he gained unprecedented access to leading lights in politics and the trade unions. He warns about the many pitfalls that trap the unwary, even what happened to a High Court judge He recounts many fascinating events, beginning with a landmark case while articled, all the way through acting for such colourful clients as impresarios, actors, airline captains, and members of both houses of Parliament, to ultimately being chosen out of thousands of solicitors by the Prime Minister himself for his Party's prestigious...

The landmark work that influenced the development of modern American law. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1881. xvi, 422 pp. This landmark work, which, according to Winfield, “blew fresh air into lawyer’s minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent,” was a decisive influence on sociological jurisprudence, legal realism and the general development of American law in the twentieth century. (Percy H. Winfield, Chief Sources of Anglo-American Law 38.)

Rejecting the reigning positivist ethos of the nineteenth century, Holmes proposed that the law was not...

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 on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A founder of the National Lawyers' Guild, Sugar also served as a member of...

In Clients and Adversaries: A Life at Trial, Dr. Noel Gage writes about his legal career representing the spectrum of humanity. From humorous to serious to touching to famous, Gage has represented all kinds.

Playboy bunnies, mobsters, and strippers were among Gage's clients. He represented a car dealership against a famous union head. He represented Mike Ilitch of Little Caesar's Pizza fame, Ed Cole (President of General Motors), and Cristina Ford, wife of Henry Ford II, and many others.

Gage details his complex, compelling, and entertaining life.