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• A roadtrip through looney U.S. laws
• More than you ever wanted to know about lawyers
• Barbie goes to court
• How one woman survived the most rigorous law school admission process in history and still managed to feed the kids and clean the house
• Reality TV in the courtroom
• Biggest beyond-the-grave control freaks
• Five things you (probably) didn't know about Clarence Darrow
• Famous prisoners' last meals
• Five reasons why John Donne was meant to be a poet, not a lawyer
• Memorable cases of false advertising
• Typhoid Mary goes to court
• Lawyers who've won nobel prizes for literature
• A lexicon of ne'er-do-wells
• Behind-the-scenes players in the U.S. law biz
• Lawyers who've won Darwin awards
• Longest jury deliberations
• Finding M&Ms in court, in contracts, and in compromising legal situations
• The judge who hated red nail polish
• World's longest prison sentences
• Literary lawyers quiz
• Must-visit travel destinations for law buffs
• Nellie Mitchell, age 96, takes on a tabloid
• Times may, in fact, have changed : old court opinions
• Consider yourself warned!
• Top ten songs that are really, truly about lawyers
• Test your knowledge of impeachment
• Celebrities with law degrees
• Seven rules you'd think every bank robber would know
• Who did you say went bankrupt?
• The lawyer who invented copying
• Haunted history : the Salem witch trials
• Would the law protect you from buying a haunted house?
• Ooh, you could've bought Madoff's Rolex!
• High fences make spiteful neighbors
• A DUI for driving a what?!
• Taking the fifth : how "Funny Girl" helped popularize the most famous one-liner in criminal law
• Do you know enough about law to pass the U.S. citizenship test?
• Toupee of not toupee? : all about the British barrister's wigs
• Worst excuses ever for committing a crime
• Ten best crime-solving lawyers in mystery series
• Wanna play auditor?
• Take me out to the ball game, but don't get between me and that home run ball
• What's in a name?
• Whose sunken treasure is it?
• How copyright law found its mojo
• 'Til death, or the tabloids, do us part : messy celebrity divorces
• Man's best friend?
• Best scenes from movie courtrooms
• Take my wives, please : polygamy law FAQ
• How Robert Crumb almost lost "Keep on truckin'"
• Trials of the centuries
• "Oops" headlines about law and crimes
• How rich people avoid getting beaten up in prison
• How much can a fake lawyer earn?
• Can you name that Supreme Court case?
• Most creative jail breaks
• The United States Constitution, not written in stone (sort of)
• You can have the house and kids, but not the dog!
• Five defective products that changed the law
• Biggest U.S. family legal feuds
• Off to court in a chicken costume
• When judges get fed up
• Five strange but true butt-related inventions.

• Introduction
• Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge
• Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace
• George Grigsby's biggest damned hat
• Becoming Norman Banfield
• W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist
• Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women
• Hellenthal chooses Anchorage
• Tales of the silver fox
• Judge George Folta : license to hunt
• Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district
• Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers
• Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters and getting soaked
• Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system
• Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight
• Nesbett's surrogate
• Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar
• More frontier stories
• Afterword.

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, then, later, laying the groundwork for statehood. The Biggest Damned Hat presents a fascinating collection of stories ranging from the gold rush to the 1950s. Built on interviews and oral histories from more than fifty lawyers who worked in Alaska before 1959, and buttressed by research into legal history, the book offers a brilliantly multifaceted portrait of law in the territory from laying the groundwork for strong civil and criminal law to helping to secure mining and fishing rights to the Alaska Court-Bar fight, which pitted Alaska's community of lawyers against its nascent Supreme Court. Bringing to life a time long past when some of the best lawyers had little formal legal education The Biggest Damned Hat fills in a crucial part of the story of Alaska's history.
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• A gentleman of Virginia.--All about a dog.--"Ain't it all queer!"--When we were a couple o' kids.--Standin' on the corner.--The daughter who was slapped.--"Homicide, vehicle, truck."--Mrs. West blows her nose.--The story the hands told.--No speak English.--To the colors.--"Good morning, judge!"--Drug addict.--Nellie was a lady.--Johnny from Ohio.--So what?--Harmonica Bill.--Just a mutt.--So help you God.--Betty's vacation.

• A family of lawyers
• The beginnings
• Assistant United States Attorney, 1957-1961
• Davis Polk, 1961-1976
• United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1976-1980
• New challenges at Davis Polk, 1980-1989
• Professional service, political peril
• Davis Polk, 1989-1994
• Whitewater independent counsel, 1994
• Davis Polk, 1994-2010.

Bob Fiske is one of the best-known and most respected lawyers of the past half century. In private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell and as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he has been involved in some of the highest profile cases of our time. Not only was he called on to act in the politically charged Whitewater affair including the death (suicide or murder?) of the Clinton aide Vincent Foster, but also the prosecution of drug kingpin Nicky Barnes ("Mr. Untouchable"), the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the USFL vs. NFL, the most contentious America's Cup ever, and the financial swindler Bernie Madoff. This is Bob Fiske's legal autobiography. It's an insider's look at some of the most fascinating and important cases of our time, complete with telling anecdotes, colorful characters and legal cliff-hangers.

• The glory of legalese
• The fine print
• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury
• Any tort in a storm
• Sex and the citizen
• Arresting language
• Wills, wives, and wrecks
• The root of all evil
• Name that law
• Future imperfect.

This clever, user-friendly discourse exposes the simple laws lurking behind decorative, unnecessary, and confusing legal language. For better or for worse, the instruction manual for today's world is written by lawyers. Everyone needs to understand this manual - but lawyers persist in writing it in language no one can possibly decipher. Why accuse someone of making "material misstatements of fact, " when you could just call them a liar? What's the point of a "last" will and testament if, presumably, every will is your last? Did you know that "law" derives from a Norse term meaning "that which is laid down"? So tell your boss to stop laying down the law - it already is. The debate over Plain vs. Precision English rages on in courtrooms, boardrooms, and, yes, even bedrooms. Here, Adam Freedman explores the origins of legalese, interprets archaic phrasing (witnesseth!), explains obscure and oddly named laws, and disputes the notion that lawyers are any smarter than the rest of us when judged solely on their briefs. (A brief, by the way, is never so.).
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