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"Between the urban bustle of Denver and the high-stress environment of a career in neurosurgery, Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall. When an emergency, high-risk procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie finds herself in the middle of a malpractice lawsuit and experiencing levels of anxiety she's never faced before. It's in this desperate moment that Maggie's boyfriend decides he can't handle her emotional baggage, and she's left alone, exhausted...

Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital, and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospital's reputation.

It is winter in one of the first years of the 21st century. On an island in the outskirts of the archipelago Fredrik lives his life in a big silence, in the only company of his dog and his cat, and an ant-hill in his living-room. A dark secret, a fatal mistake, has turned him into a reserved recluse. One morning, he notices a woman with a walker standing on the ice. It is Harriet, the woman he let down over 30 years ago, whom he left without a word....

The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exposes you personally to government recovery actions, damages, and malpractice risks. It's vital that your personal injury practice has a comprehensive plan for compliance when resolving cases if you want to protect yourself-and protect your clients. In The Art of Settlement, Jason Lazarus helps you navigate...

Health professionals may face an action in negligence if a patient suffers damage and the delivery of the health care was below the expected standard for the ordinary reasonable practitioner. Four legal cases have been dramatised to illustrate the elements a plaintiff needs to establish to bring a successful action in negligence. The dramatised cases are: --Donoghue v. Stevenson [1932] All ER 1. --Rogers v. Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479. --Peters...

A memoir of the last five years experiences of an average guy who ran into a "few" problems that were not of his making. These experiences of life couldn't really be true in this day and age and in this republic, could they? Do lawyers get cut slack? What if you did it? Or, I did it? Who stands up for the average guy? What if the average guy is somebody's target? Franz Kafka understood. He had a handle on it. And yet, we trust our systems and our...

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.

La réparation d'une atteinte à l'intégrité physique est le plus souvent ressentie comme injuste et aléatoire. Injuste car cette atteinte est, dans notre droit, traitée différemment selon son origine : pathologique ou accidentelle, avec ou sans responsabilité d'un tiers, indemnisable ou non selon le régime juridique dans lequel — par hasard — elle s'inscrit. Aléatoire selon la qualité des experts qui auront à connaître de son estimation,...

Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...