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These cases didnt just include the runof the mill burglaries and robberies or drug deals at a time when miles of square blocks there were leveled to rubble and burnt out buildings seemed to be everywhere. Perhaps shakespeare said it bestfirst, kill all the lawyers. Harper is an attorney, adjunct professor at northwestern university law school, and author of four books, including crossing hoffa. And we should all take from it a better understanding of why. The 2016 trade paperback of my latest book, basic booksperseus, april 20 with an extensive new afterword is available. Lawyers brings together thirtyfive outstanding excerpts and articles on the legal profession in the first reader to address the whole range of vital questions concerning lawyers and their increasing impact on all aspects of society. Everyone who knows an attorney should read this book. In the grand tradition of the new yorker book of cat cartoons comes 96 cartoons that have appeared in the new yorker from 1925 to the present about the profession we love to hate.
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