Nibble & Kuhn - Hardcover

Schmahmann, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897335929 ISBN 13: 9780897335928

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

A young lawyer in a pretentious law firm loves a girl that he can't have and is forced to try a major case that he can't win, and must do both under the critical scrutiny of senior lawyers who will soon decide whether to promote him to partnership.

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Book Description:

An unraveling law firm. An unwinnable case. An unworkable love. Derek Dover has it all. Derek’s up for partner at Nibble & Kuhn just as that most proper of Boston law firms comically tries to ‘rebrand’ itself for the Google era. Pompous and arbitrary, the ruling junta of partners saddles him with a high visibility lawsuit just weeks before trial. The diligent young attorney arranges things so that Maria Parma, a new associate in the firm for whom he’s fallen hard, also gets named to the case. Maria, in turn, can’t keep her hands off Derek, but it’s complicated because she’s engaged to someone else. As Derek prepares his case on behalf of seven young victims of an industrial polluter, his anxieties about his career and his torments over Maria’s mixed messages only increase. Have his eccentric WASP superiors handed him a ‘toxic’ case to ruin his chances of becoming a partner? How can he get his opponents to settle – an outcome the presiding judge all but demands – unless his unorthodox ‘expert witnesses’ perform with enough gravitas to match that of the other side with its Harvard Medical School scientist? Will Nibble & Kuhn survive the partners’ spectacularly bad business judgments? Does it even matter to Derek, given that his looming fiasco of a trial and his indiscretions with Maria seem set to sink any chance he ever had at partnership? Ultimately, Derek sets into motion a line of inquiry that spins events entirely out of the control of the judge, jury, and any and all attorneys.

About the Author:

David Schmahmann was born in Durban, South Africa. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Cornell Law School and has studied in India and Israel and worked in Burma. He practices law in Boston.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0897335929
• ISBN 13: 9780897335928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279