True Tales of Trying Times: Legal Fables for Today - Hardcover

Bob Rains

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097936860X ISBN 13: 9780979368608

Publisher: Willow Crossing Press, LLC, 2007

Synopsis

A great gift for your favorite attorney or law student.

True Tales of Trying Times is a humorous collection of modern day fables based on actual law cases. It exposes some of the follies of the American court system and those who use and abuse it.

The stories reflect the wide range of predicaments created by humans and other non-rational creatures The book is authored by a law professor but is written with wry humor, free of legal jargon. These tales are for everyone: not just lawyers, but people too! The author concludes each fable with a moral drawn from the case, focusing on the humorous side of the litigation. The moral is set forth in verse. Each fable is illustrated by a pen and ink drawing. These fables and their accompanying morals offer an entertaining view of the modern American legal system. True Tales is an attractively designed hardback book and makes a perfect gift for anyone ready to appreciate an ironic look at the illusive quest for justice.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Rains had been practicing law for about a decade when he decided to make the world a better place by: 1) leaving private practice, and 2) creating more lawyers. So now he whiles away his days at a university located somewhere in the eastern half of the United States, teaching The Law to eager young liberal arts majors who might otherwise be flipping burgers for a living. After many years, he is still trying to understand his fellow members of the legal profession and why they do the things they do.

Bob Rains is the author of numerous humorous poems mostly with a legal bent which have been published in legal and academic journals and literary reviews.

Review:

Anyone wishing to read how barking mad USA lawyers are, including the tale of how it is illegal to sack employees for being fast asleep, should look at a new book called True Tales of Trying Times by Bob Rains. --Accountancy Magazine, (UK) August 2007

Bob Rains gives us lessons worth learning, with fables as broad as the fruited plain and as addictive as salted peanuts. I defy the reader to read just one. Enjoy them all. --Justice J. Michael Eakin, PA Supreme Court, Foreword to True Tales of Trying Times

Professor Rains book of legal fables is a feast first, to be voraciously devoured as a ravenous gourmand and second, to be delicately sampled, as a selective gourmet, and dipped into in the years to come. --Dr. Mary Welstead, The Complete Lawyer, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2007.

Anyone wishing to read how barking mad USA lawyers are, including the tale of how it is illegal to sack employees for being fast asleep, should look at a new book called True Tales of Trying Times by Bob Rains. --Accountancy Magazine, (UK) August 2007

Professor Rains book of legal fables is a feast first, to be voraciously devoured as a ravenous gourmand and second, to be delicately sampled, as a selective gourmet, and dipped into in the years to come. --Dr. Mary Welstead, The Complete Lawyer, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Willow Crossing Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 097936860X
• ISBN 13: 9780979368608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: E.A. Jacobsen