The King of Torts
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9780307576026
Description: The office of the 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, 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...From the Hardcover edition.