Mike Farris

Gebundenes Buch

Wrongful Termination

Beschreibung

Bay Muckleroy is a modern-day Diogenes, looking for an honest man. His problem lies not in the object of his search, but in the venue-he is a partner in Black West & Merriam, the largest law firm in Dallas, Texas, where honest men are scarce. Bay came up through the ranks of the firm at a time when honor and integrity did not constitute character flaws. But times have changed with the influx of lawyers the firm hired laterally from other law firms. Lawyers like Tripp Malloy, who brought with him ten million dollars' worth of legal business and a sacrifice-truth-for-wealth attitude. Infiltrating the power structure of the firm by the threat of taking their clients and moving on if challenged, Malloy and his ilk have brought a new era to the firm, one that Bay finds distasteful. Enter Meg Kelly-a first-year associate who blows the whistle on Malloy's chronic overbilling of clients. What she couldn't possibly know was that something far more sinister was lurking beneath of the surface of those bloated fee statements. Something that Tripp and the firm needed to keep hidden. When she is fired for insubordination, Meg turns to Bay, her mentor, for help. Unaware of the tempest they are about to unleash, he champions her wrongful termination lawsuit against his own firm. But when they stumble onto a truth that threatens not only Tripp Malloy, but the entire law firm, they soon find themselves both in danger of being wrongfully terminated.

Autor

ABOUT THE EDITORMIKE FARRIS, the elder son of Dr. T.V. "Corky" Farris," is a retired attorney whose law practice in Dallas included commercial litigation and entertainment law focusing on the movie and publishing industries. He is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the honor society Order of the Coif. He has served as chair of the Dallas Bar Association's Entertainment Art and Sports Law Section and the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section, where he also served as editor of the section's Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.Mike is a multi-time published author of both fiction and nonfiction, including the Amazon best-selling Hawaiian true crime book, A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow. His most recent non-fiction book, the Amazon bestselling Blowhard: Windbaggery and the Wretched Ethics of Clarence Darrow, is an analysis of, and commentary on, four seminal cases in the career of Clarence Darrow.Mike is also an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, and a course of his design called Lawyers in Popular Culture. In addition to writing and teaching at UTA, he is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, with more than 85 published reviews.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Histria Books
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781945447372
• ISBN-10: 1945447370
• Artikelnr.: 52363759