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Stories of the Top Seven Indian Lawyers
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Indu Bhan
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Indian judicial system has garnered worldwide fame through its historical and remarkable judgements and the hard work of its judges and lawyers rarely catches the glaze of common public. Legal Eagle tries to bridge this gap.
Indu Bhan’s Legal Eagles: Stories of Top Seven Indian Lawyers’ traces the story of the top seven lawyers in India. Lawyers, as we commonly perceive, are not just shrewd intellectuals but much more. It takes more than just intelligence to become a successful lawyer. It takes years of practice, extensive studies and professionalism which set the absolutely outstanding lawyers from the general ones. Their life and career graph is full of crusts and troughs and this book gives an insight into it.
Legal Eagles is an exciting listen for all the budding lawyers and for all those who are interested in knowing about the life and struggle of great lawyers and how they achieve success in life through sheer grit and hard work. The top seven lawyers chosen by Indu Bhan as the subjects of her book are well known lawyers and have prolific personality worthy to be written about.
The seven lawyers whose life and career has found a mention in the book are Harish Salve, Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman, Mukul Rohatgi, Abhishek Sangvi, CA Sundaram, and Arvind Datar. A common link between all seven of them is that they all have been or are applying their trade in the Supreme Court of India. While some of them like Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman, and Mukul Rohatgi carried on their family legacy of being lawyer, other like Harish Salve and Arvind Datar accidentally landed upon this profession and are now the stalwarts of legal practice.
Legal Eagles is filled with several details of high profile cases handled by these lawyers like Coalgate, Vodafone Tax Case, etc. and also explains the psychological and emotional impact that these cases had on them. Not just their professional career, but we also catch a glimpse of their personal life in this book. We get a personal view of the life of these seven legal eagles of India as the author talks about their background, mentors, turning points in their life, what was their way to success, their struggles, daily routine etc.
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De: Melvin I Urofsky
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls barely missed his heart and spinal cord. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age 61, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top-Notch Biography
- De Jean en 08-01-19
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My Own Words
- De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- Narrado por: Linda Lavin
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,511
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spectacularly Dry
- De CMP en 07-27-18
De: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, y otros
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Scorpions
- The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MOST HONOURABLE SWANSONG
- De Dudley H. Williams en 05-27-12
De: Noah Feldman
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Sisters in Law
- How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
- De: Linda Hirshman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and thought-provoking
- De Jean en 09-08-15
De: Linda Hirshman
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- De: Lennard Davis
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this book is so informative
- De Anonymous User en 01-10-23
De: Lennard Davis
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The Rockefellers
- De: Peter Collier, David Horowitz
- Narrado por: Michael Anthony
- Duración: 30 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
Against a richly detailed backdrop of history, the story of this unique American family unfolds. It begins with John D. Rockefeller Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Long
- De Rohit en 05-25-07
De: Peter Collier, y otros
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Fight of the Century
- Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
- De: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
- Narrado por: an all-star cast
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s 100-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in - Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona - need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Nancy B en 10-06-20
De: Michael Chabon - editor, y otros
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- De: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a legacy!!!
- De Paul en 03-08-21
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The Supreme Court
- De: William H. Rehnquist
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Chief Justice Rehnquist's engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall's dominance of the Court during the early 19th century through the landmark decisions of the Warren Court. Citing cases such as the Dred Scott decision and Roosevelt's Court-packing plan, Rehnquist makes clear that the Court does not operate in a vacuum, that the justices are unavoidably influenced by their surroundings, and that their decisions have real and lasting impacts on our society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Absorbing
- De Jean en 01-28-18
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The Fall of the House of Zeus
- The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
- De: Curtis Wilkie
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate majority leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against "Big Tobacco" and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter-day Robin Hood and portrayed in the movie The Insider as a dapper aviator-lawyer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The title says it all - The fall of Scruggs
- De Placeholder en 03-11-12
De: Curtis Wilkie
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Imbeciles
- The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Concept, Aggravating Execution
- De Gillian en 04-05-16
De: Adam Cohen
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Gideon's Trumpet
- How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States
- De: Anthony Lewis
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best book on the subject
- De J.B. Price en 06-12-18
De: Anthony Lewis
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Taking on the Trust
- The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
- De: Steve Weinberg
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell confronted the company known simply as "The Trust".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Annoying Narrator
- De Nate en 04-03-15
De: Steve Weinberg
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The Fall of the House of FIFA
- The Multimillion-Dollar Corruption at the Heart of Global Soccer
- De: David Conn
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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In 2015, FIFA - the multibillion dollar governing body of the world's most-loved sport - was brought down by allegations of industrial-scale bribes, kickbacks, money laundering, racketeering, and tax evasion. Beginning with early morning raids in Zurich and the indictment of 27 executives by the US Department of Justice, the rottenness at the core of FIFA seemed to extend throughout all of soccer, from the decision to send the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar to lesser known cases of embezzlement from Trinidad to South Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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quite good
- De kevin m en 12-14-17
De: David Conn
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The Majesty of the Law
- Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
- De: Sandra Day O'Connor
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, ideas, and landmark cases, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, exploring through personal observation the evolution of the Court and American democratic traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and well-written
- De James en 07-11-05
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One Vote Away
- How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History
- De: Ted Cruz
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,186
In One Vote Away, you will discover how often the high court decisions that affect your life have been decided by just one vote. One vote preserves your right to speak freely, to bear arms, and to exercise your faith. One vote will determine whether your children enjoy their full inheritance as American citizens.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intellectual and Insightful, so smartly written it became prophetic!
- De Kevin D. en 09-29-20
De: Ted Cruz
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The Price of Justice
- A True Story of Greed and Corruption
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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This nonfiction legal thriller traces the 14-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history to justice. Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America’s electric power. But wealth and influence weren’t enough for Blankenship and his company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West Virginia judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards in the company’s mines - mines in which scores died unnecessarily.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good story
- De Mr. en 10-06-13
De: Laurence Leamer