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Book Review of The King of Torts

The King of Torts
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The office of the Public Defender is not known as training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the of young charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the senseless murders that hit D.C. ever week.

He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one the largest pharmaceutical companies int world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.