NO CONTEST: How the Power Lawyers Are Perverting Justice in America

Nader, Ralph; Smith, Wesley J.

ISBN 10: 0679429727 / ISBN 13: 9780679429722

Published by Random House, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

Signed by author, consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader, on title page, together with his added, characteristic phrase: "For Justice." In NO CONTEST, Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith kick over the rotted log our corporate-dominated legal system has become to reveal what has been happening to individual justice just out of public view. Through extensive research and interviews with juries, litigants, judges, lawyers, and legal scholars, Nader and Smith counter the corporate-financed propaganda blitz that has painted multibillion-dollar corporations as hapless victims of ordinary Americans bent on suing their way into prosperity. They argue that, in fact, our system has all but abandoned the ideal of providing every American access to justice. Instead, many courts have become the nearly exclusive domain of the country's largest and most powerful corporations--and their lawyers. Behind the giant corporations' tightening grip on American society are the large corporate law firms who have perfected the art of nullifying, misusing, or breaking the law, while pretending to uphold it. The scope of the assault on workers' rights to organize, taxpayers and investors' need for sound financial institutions, patients' needs for competent health care, and consumers' needs for product safety is breathtaking. But it can be stopped. Nader and Smith propose an extensive program of legal reform that will preserve access to justice for all Americans, unclog the congested courts, and guarantee that the right side--citizen or corporation, poor or rich--will prevail. Fine, in near-fine (price-clipped, else fine), mylar-protected dust jacket. N33.

Seller Inventory # 6026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NO CONTEST: How the Power Lawyers Are Perverting Justice in America
• Publisher: Random House, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679429727
• ISBN 13: 9780679429722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nonfiction

About this title

Synopsis

An expose+a7 of the American legal system reveals the stunning magnitude of system abuse by corporate lawyers, drawing on statistics and case studies to call for reform that would streamline justice, cut legal costs, and guarantee access to the system. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

About the Author

Ralph Nader, the nationally renowned consumer activist, works in Washington, D.C. Author and attorney Wesley J. Smith lives in Oakland, California. Together Nader and Smith are the authors of Winning the Insurance Game and Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety.


From the Trade Paperback edition.