Showing results for "Lawyers" in Literary Fiction

They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path.

This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard, a lawyer, is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned, but now famous, lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to selling the letters.

As a lawyer for A-list Hollywood actors, Jillian Price's job is soul-sucking, and she needs a way out. She may have found one - at a yard sale. Across a junk-strewn lawn, she spies a painting that makes her heart stop. It looks to be a lost masterpiece! With that painting she could have it all: the new job, her own gallery, and even the guy - gorgeous banker Aero Jantzen.

Tomás tiene una memoria prodigiosa y una agudeza inusual, natural en el que prenden fuerte las raíces de un juicioso estudio. Pero una amante desdeñada, buscando ganarle con bebedizos, logra es malograrle la salud. Tomás se repone... o lo hace a medias, porque este su nuevo estado dará pie a las más satíricas ocurrencias que no dejan de encerrar su cuota de razón.