The King Of Torts

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Doubleday
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 376 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his lifethat would make him, almost overnight, the legal professions newest king of torts...

ISBN: 9780385508049