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Title: The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history broughtsuit against the coal company--and won by Gerald M. Stern ISBN: 0-394-72343-0 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1977 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.20 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There Are Good Attorneys . . .
Comment: My Civil Proceedure Prof. assigned this to us over Christmas Break so we could become familiar with "piercing the corporate veil", which merely refers to the rare legal opportunity to cut through a corporation's legal armour and attack some of the meat and money, i.e. personal assets of the officers. This only happens when there is extreme wrong doing by those suits running the business, and if you want to know what extreme worngdoing is, this is the book that will lay it out for you, pretty as a penny.
I have to admit, I was dreading reading this book, as the holidays were a sweet time to escape the stressful activities of law school. So when "Harold", our WonderBread/uptight, D.C., in the process of divorce, Napoleonic law professor assigned this reading, I was not too thrilled.
But once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down. This is the story that makes good people want to become good lawyers.
The story is about a coal mining disaster, a preventable, mind-reeling, man-made disaster and how a dedicated attorney wades through the litigation process, extracting painful stories from the survivors, and skillfully uses hard work, pit bull clenched determination, the legal system and a little luck to persevere over a greedy, thoughtless, and culpable corporation. I hope those guys fighting Enron read this.
A great read, even if you have no legal aspirations and like a good, meaty story with a real-life happy ending.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lawyering down in the pits
Comment: Jerry Stern's account of the litigation over the Buffalo Creek dam disaster ought to be read by every wannabe trial lawyer so that he or she will understand the tremendous creativity real lawyering, particularly lawyering down in the pits, requires.
The real practice of law requires vision and courage, which this book amply illustrates. Stern and his team from Arnold and Porter took on the near impossible case, armed only with the real tools of our trade, the words and ideas that form the arguments that shape the law.
And yet this is not just the story of courageous plaintiffs' lawyers, it is about the truly great defense lawyers on the other side, in particular Zane Grey Staker, whose tenacity and command of the language and of his case, gave the A & P lawyers a great and fair fight, and of the United States District Judge, whose role was not only to provide each side with "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge" but who understood that proper case management plays a critical role in achieving substantial justice.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you're in law school read this!
Comment: A fabulous book for two reasons. It chronicles a disaster that is virtually unknown beyond the state of West Virginia. Secondly, it's a great tool for any law student in a Civil Procedure class. Forget about "A Civil Action" or "Erin Brockovich", this book best depicts the struggles of those who suffered, both the victims and the lawyers who fought for the people in the Buffalo Creek region.
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Title: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr ISBN: 0679772677 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Simple Justice by Richard Kluger ISBN: 0394722558 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1977 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Shapo and Shapo's Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success, 2d by Helene S. Shapo, Marshall Shapo, Helene Shapo, Bert S. Esselink ISBN: 1587781875 Publisher: West Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis ISBN: 0679723129 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy R. Paul ISBN: 0890897603 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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