Lawyer : a life of counsel and controversy /
Arthur L. Liman ; with the assistance of Peter Israel.
- New York : PublicAffairs, 1998.
- xix, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Family -- Two Mentors (and A Menace) -- Roy Cohn Made Me a Lawyer -- The Judge: Simon H. Rifkind -- The Boss: Robert M. Morgenthau -- Private Practice -- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison -- American Express, Tino De Angelis, and the Great Salad Oil Scandal -- U.S. v. Wolfson: My Introduction to Defending White-Collar Crime -- Charles Bluhdorn Awards Us the Gulf and Western Good-American Medal -- Continental Grain Chases the Silver Sheiks -- The Rise and Rise of Steve Ross and the Mega Merger of Time and Warner -- Keeping the Eye Was Bill Paley's Prize -- Public Service -- As Natural as Breathing -- The Attica Uprising: Investigation and Implications -- The Case of New York's Collapsing Subway Cars -- Representing the Unrepresented: The Legal Action Center, the Legal Aid Society, and the Capital Defender Office -- Was the New York City Medical Examiner Covering up Police Brutality? -- A Thumb on the Scale of Justice -- The Runaway Prosecutors -- Pennzoil v. Texaco: The $10 Billion Handshake -- U.S. v. GAF: Good Things Don't Always Come in Threes -- Michael Milken: The Demon of Wall Street -- The Iran-Contra Investigation -- Flouting the Constitution -- Contraband, Contra-Aid, Controversy -- Public Hearings in the Television Age -- North and Poindexter: Covert Acts and Cover-Ups -- Implausible Deniability: Why Reagan Was Not Impeached -- Presidential Accountability and Criminal Liability.
"For Decades, Arthur L. Liman represented the very best ideals of his profession. In this absorbing memoir, completed just before his death, Liman looks back on his spectacular career, his greatest cases, and the ways the legal profession has changed - for better and worse - over the past half century."--Jacket.
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