Shark Tales: True and Amazing Stories from

It's no secret that Americans are fascinated by lawyers and the legal system. From the media obsession with hot-button trials to the non-stop sales of John Grisham's novels, to the popularity of such television shows as Ally McBeal and The Practice, our society continually demonstrates a boundless interest in the nitty-gritty dealings, intrigues, idiocies, and (sometimes) idealism that exists on both sides of the bar.

Gathered from a wide variety of attorneys and legal authorities, these jaw-dropping, real-life stories from the battlefields of law offer up a hilarious gallery of quirky judges, flabbergasted lawyers, and defendants with wonderfully idiosyncratic opinions on crime and punishment. Funny, revealing, and free of case precedents, Shark Tales is the perfect gift for law school-bound college graduates, men and women on the brink of taking arduous bar exams, practicing lawyers, and ordinary folk who can't resist a lawyer joke or two to brighten the day.

Ron Liebman is a senior partner in the Washington law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP. As an assistant U.S. attorney, Liebman was one of the prosecutors who spearheaded the 1973 investigation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Introduction

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(4)

PART I Sex, Sex, and More Sex

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(36)

Hell Hath No Fury

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(2)

A Night of Bliss

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(3)

Disorder in the Court I

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(2)

Body Parts

28

(3)

The Sobriety Test

31

(2)

The Price of Beauty

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(1)

Not a Pretty Picture

34

(2)

The Porn Queen

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(4)

Why Do They Do What They Do?

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(3)

Keeping Abreast of the Law

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(2)

Shell-Shocked

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(1)

Dated

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(1)

Calling Dr. Freud

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(2)

One More Question

49

(4)

PART II Witness the Witness

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(38)

Disorder in the Court II

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(2)

Old Man Peveto's Mule

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(3)

The Witness

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(3)

The Speed of Light

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(2)

Good as New

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(1)

The Truth, the Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth

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(1)

Just Another Day in Court

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(4)

What's in a Word?

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(3)

Disorder in the Court III

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(1)

Stuck-Up

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(1)

The Oath

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(1)

Consumed with Evidence

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(1)

Fender Benders

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(3)

Combat

81

(3)

Stiffed

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(1)

Can You Hear Me?

85

(2)

An Evil Genius

87

(4)

PART III All Rise for the Judge

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(44)

The Appearance of Evil

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(2)

Principles of Lawyering

95

(3)

The Wisdom of the Court

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(1)

Justice Skirted

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(2)

The Dream Merchant

101

(3)

The Bitch Set Me Up

104

(2)

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

106

(2)

Hidden Justice

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(4)

Disorder in the Court IV

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(2)

A Good Judge

114

(4)

The Supremes

118

(3)

My Two Trips to the Supreme Court

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(5)

Court Time

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(1)

A Judge's Mailbox

127

(4)

Hottest Lawyer in Town

131

(1)

Privacy, Please!

132

(3)

PART IV Left Field

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(102)

Crazy Sadie

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(3)

Money in All the Right Places

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(3)

Who Wears the Pants?

143

(2)

A Day in the Life

145

(3)

A Satisfied Customer

148

(3)

More Than She Could Stomach

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(2)

Miami Vice

153

(3)

Juvenile Justice

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(2)

Don't Try This at Home

158

(2)

Coffee, Tea, or Me

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(2)

More Days in the Life...

162

(4)

The Immigration Officer

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(4)

Disorder in the Court V

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(2)

The Divorce

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(3)

Dog Days

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(6)

Nighttime Is the Right Time

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(5)

Goodbye Law, Hello Life

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(4)

He Gave Him the Finger

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(1)

Give Me a Break

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(2)

First Footing

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(2)

You're a Lawyer, Right?

195

(6)

And in Clause III(D), The Booties

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(3)

Puerto Rican Interlude

204

(2)

But She's Listed in the Telephone Directory

206

(2)

Holy Krishna

208

(4)

You German, Mate?: An American Lawyer's First Experience with European Soccer

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(10)

A Trial Lawyer

222

(3)

Better Luck Next Time

225

(2)

Sheep Thrills

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(1)

Go Figure

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(1)

Do You Dig It?

229

(1)

My First Case

230

(2)

A Good Man

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(5)

PART V A Word

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(42)

How Often?...Or How?

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(2)

Away with Words

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(1)

A Blessed Event

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(1)

Justice Triumphed!

243

(1)

Lawyer Howe

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(4)

Think Before You Speak

248

(1)

It's All Greek to Me

249

(1)

The Meat of the Matter

250

(1)

Disorder in the Court VI

251

(2)

Give It to Me Straight

253

(5)

Seeing It All

258

(2)

Faking It

260

(1)

I Can See Clearly Now

261

(1)

A Dog of a Case, or, Only in America

262

(3)

Getting It Backwards

265

(1)

Right Church, Wrong Pew

266

(1)

Duh

267

(2)

Smell's Bells

269

(2)

There's No Questioning This Diagnosis!

271

(1)

One Question Too Many

272

(2)

Correspondence

274

(5)

Acknowledgments

279

(2)

Permissions Acknowledgments

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Shark Tales: True and Amazing Stories from America's Lawyers

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