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2006

Format:	Book
Author:	Goulden, Joseph C., 1934-
Title:	The money lawyers : the no-holds-barred world of today's richest and most powerful lawyers / Joseph C. Goulden.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Truman TalleyBooks/St Martins Press, 2006.
Description:	xvi, 428 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:	An exploration of today's class-action suits, in which billions of dollars are garnered from manufacturers, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the profit-driven world of lawyers and law firms.
Subjects:	Lawyers -- United States -- Biography. Practice of law -- United States. Class actions (Civil procedure) -- United States.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-408) and index.
Contents:	David Boies : the new superlawyer -- Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., Washington superlobbyist -- Breast implants : the $10 billion rush to judgment -- The diet pill wars : meet the class action club -- Lerach and Weiss : the class action scourges of west and east -- Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft : metamorphosis of a white-shoe law firm -- Conclusion : what's to be done?
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2005048647
ISBN:	0312205554 9780312205553
Other Number:	60515318
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Control Number:	172273
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Call Number:	340.092 Goulden

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