Circle of greed : the spectacular rise and fall of the lawyer who brought corporate America to its knees / Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon.
Dillon, Patrick, 1945-; Cannon, Carl M.
2010
KF373.L46 D55 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Circle of greed : the spectacular rise and fall of the lawyer who brought corporate America to its knees / Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon.
Author
Dillon, Patrick, 1945-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780767929943
0767929942
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Broadway Books, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xii, 532 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
KF373.L46 D55 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
340.092
Summary
The epic story of the rise and fall of William S. Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and--most famously--Enron. To the people he championed, he was the plaintiffs' Robin Hood, a one-man posse fighting corporate villains. Then, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees fell prey to the same corrupt impulses, and paid the price by disgrace, disbarment, and time in federal prison. If ever there was a modern Greek tragedy about a man and his times, about corporate arrogance and illusions and the scorched-earth tactics to not only counteract corporate America but to beat it at its own game, it is Bill Lerach's story.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Added Author
Cannon, Carl M.
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Prologue
Dragon slayer
The young man from Pittsburgh
The young lawyer from Pittsburgh
Golden State
A house on the hill
Ogre of the valley
The big con
Into the breach
Making a case
Making enemies
The witness from hell
A gift horse named Keating
A trojan horse named Keating
The visible hand of greed
Revenge of the Republicans
Revenge of the nerds
Mistake by the lake
Phoenix rising
Vendetta
Fraud by hindsight
Let's make a deal
The hunters and the hunted
"Nobody can stop me"
The patience of Job
The not-so-perfect circle
All fall down
A narrow definition of deceit
A broad definition of deceit
Epilogue.

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