“Due diligence. Utter that dull gray phrase around a pack of corporate lawyers and watch them leer. That’s because the final tab for the due diligence in a significant transaction will easily exceed ten million dollars. Those kinds of numbers enchant even the most somber of practitioners.”The plo...
Rachel Gold, a St. Louis attorney, doesn't think much of her client's chances for succeeding in an age-discrimination suit against one of the city's biggest engineering firms. Only her mother's plea that she represent Ruth Alpert convinces Rachel to take on what looks like a sure loser, until Rut...
Attorney Rachel Gold knows her way around a courtroom, but back in her hometown of St. Louis and on her own after a stint in a big Chicago firm, Rachel's cutting a path through a more dangerous terrain - the cutthroat tactics of divorce law. The case she's just landed called Landau v. Landau is s...
Rachel is hired by the managing partner of her old firm to find out who or what is "Canaan." At issue is the execution the will of a recently deceased (he died in flagrante) partner in the firm who had added a bizarre codicil to his will two years earlier. This addition provided for the maintenan...
The fourth novel to feature Rachel Gold finds the St. Louis, MO lawyer up to her neck in conspiracy and intrigue. Evidence found at the crime scene where one of her clients is killed points to the victim's husband as the murderer, but Rachel is unconvinced. Her subsequent investigation uncovers a...
Lou rolled over in bed, squinting in the light. The tangy scent of hot pizza filled the motel room as Gordie entered carrying three takeout boxes of pizza. Right behind him came Ray with a case of Rolling Rock. Lou glanced over at Bronco Billy, who was on his boxspring trying to find his glasses....
Just ten minutes in, right after my seventh question. “Objection,” Barry Kudar said. “I instruct my client not to answer.” I turned to the witness. “Are you going to follow your attorney’s instructions, Doctor Mason?” He gave...
“Then,” she said, her voice quavering, “he opened his robe. I could hear all those people down below. They were standing all around the pyramid and they were chanting, ‘Tezca, Tezca, Tezca.’ Over and over and over. And then that horrible woman told me—ordered me—to take his…to put his penis in my...
“Not just one time, either,” I said. “How many?” “I counted twenty-three.” “For Sebastian Curry?” Ellen McNeil shook her head in disbelief. “That’s ridiculous.” We were in the back office at Unique Exp...