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Book Review of The King of Torts

The King of Torts
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"The Office of Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C.every week.
As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would mke him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts ..." (From the back cover)