Bending the Arc by Nicholas Gretener
My score: 4 of 5 stars
Bending The Arc is a recent courtroom drama set in and across the Texas oil fields.
Steve Shane is a hard-working lawyer who shunned the massive legislation corporations to arrange on his personal. His robust beliefs within the courtroom make him candidate to guide a brand new group taking motion towards runaway civil jury awards. This group, LawForce, can be a government-supported, authorized SWAT group.
Wildcat Oil and Gasoline is being sued for 2 counts of negligence. Steve and his group take over as authorized representatives, however extra environmental disasters look set to take the corporate down.
The primary few chapters introduce the reader to numerous characters and I used to be starting to wrestle with the place the story was heading. Nonetheless, as soon as Shane had agreed to guide the LawForce group, and work on the case started, the story took off and I turned invested within the narrative.
I did guess early on who was behind all of it, however usually it’s the journey to the end result which issues extra. On this case I loved studying about Shane and his group and I look ahead to studying extra of their instances sooner or later.
E-book Description:
“The arc of the ethical universe is lengthy, nevertheless it bends in direction of justice .”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jonathan Hendrix, the youngest U.S. Lawyer Common in historical past, is aware of that bending the arc received’t occur by itself, assist is required. He’s decided to curb runaway civil jury awards which can be threatening to destabilize the economic system.
Graduating legislation college, Steve Shane is a prime wall avenue prospect. Shunning the massive corporations, he units up his personal observe and 6 years later has developed a stable fame as a business litigator.
Hendrix recruits Shane to create LawForce, a government-supported, authorized SWAT group to be deployed in key instances the place an inequality of counsel threatens dangerous verdicts. Their first case – Inexperienced Motion Coalition v. Wildcat Oil & Gasoline.
A medium sized oil and fuel firm, Wildcat is affected by an apparently random collection of environmental accidents. Not accidents in accordance with the Inexperienced Motion Coalition, a pacesetter within the new period of aggressive environmental litigation, however proof of a sample of negligence. The damages sought by the GAC have the potential to destroy Wildcat. Performing for the GAC is a high-powered group of authorized eagles from the blue-chip agency of Todd Ives Tillington, led by senior accomplice Andrew Tillington III. Wildcat seems hopelessly outclassed . . . then Shane is retained.
Shane and LawForce uncover they’re in for greater than only a powerful authorized battle as they negotiate the twists and turns of the case to its explosive courtroom finale.
