Medical Legal Thriller

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator's son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind's Eye.

Några samvetslösa forskare har slagit sig ner i Sverige och bildat "Institutet" där de i hemlighet framställer något som kan innebära döden för tusentals människor. En svensk kvinnlig advokat upptäcker vad de håller på med och blir snart utsatt för deras påtryckningar och terror... Staffan Westerlund (1942-2012) var en svensk författare, jurist och professor i miljörätt. Han debuterade med "Institutet" 1983 och skrev sedermera sammanlagt 10 deckare.

Butler is a womanizer, with no scruples about how he wins cases or conducts his private life. This case is assigned to the court of a female judge, with whom Butler had a short, secret love affair while both were in law school. She should recuse herself from the case, but does not, believing that no one knows of the affair. Later, a witness lies under oath and is exposed, resulting in the jury awarding a huge sum to the plaintiff. He celebrates by bedding his beautiful young associate....

Stan's bankruptcy client, Maureen Thompson, is accused of her husband's murder. Her alleged motive is the proceeds of a large insurance policy on her husband's life that would cure her financial woes. Stan assigns the case to his partner, Paula Waters, who at first is excited about getting a new high-profile murder case but her excitement is soon dampened when she learns this isn't the first of Maureen Thompson's husbands to be hacked to death with an ice pick!

Attorney Benjamin Davis is a young New York transplant seeking to make a name for himself in the Nashville legal community. After miscalculating the huge risks involved in accepting ten medical malpractice cases at one time, Davis discovers that a hospital and several of its personnel, including doctors, had conspired to provide unnecessary tests and surgeries on innocent patients... for years. With small town physicians pushing all the ethical and legal boundaries, Davis decides he has no alternative but to protect an entire community...

Two small girls are admitted to the ICU with severe burns, and child abuse is suspected. Though the father denies the charges, he is taken into custody with implications of race included.

His crimes - unforgivable. His death - inevitable. His suffering - just beginning. Obadiah Stark, aka The Tally Man, is executed at ADX Absolom, his death sentence watched by the world's media, victims' relatives and one investigative reporter, Joe O'Connell. Penning an account of Stark's personal history and subsequent crimes in the hope of determining what elements make the sociopathic mind tick, Joe discovers clues and inconsistencies which cause him to investigate Stark's execution.

In this combination medical/legal/psychological thriller, attorney Josephine Rinaldi is struggling to balance her fledgling legal career with caring for her father who has Alzheimer’s Disease. She thinks she’s found the perfect solution in the Kessler Institute. He’ll be in expert hands, and she can get back to work. But her relief is short-lived when questions about his care go unanswered and looking deeper puts both their lives at risk.

When Joan Firenze first offered her home as a haven to young women burdened by unexpected pregnancy, little did she know what trouble lay in store. It was bad enough that the town had tried to shut her down and the State had threatened to fine her for running an illegal boarding house. Now her bosses at Oppenheimer Industries were getting into the act, and she was even beginning to wonder about Patty, her best friend and most trusted colleague. Why would Oppenheimer care what Joan did with her personal time, wondered Matthew Macguire, the young attorney assigned to handle her case.

When Gabe McAllister, decorated former Marine and respected Texas State Trooper, walked out of his condo in West Houston on a Tuesday morning to head to a meeting of the newly formed task force of the DEA, Texas State Police and Border Patrol, he found five Houston cops waiting to collar him for the rape of 6-year-old Annie Bridges. His implicit trust in the fairness of the justice system shattered, McAllister lands in the Huntsville prison, sentenced to three counts of 20-to-life sentences.

This is the story of a lawyer on his way to lunch who gets hit by a drunk angry driver and driven into the restaurant and pinned under the car suffering major burns. It describes the treatment applied, his emotions and feelings, his eventual recovery; and in a courtroom how he gets to face the person who hurt him. This story is based on actual treatment protocols for burn victims, and courtroom testimony.