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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 14, 2001

Litigator Imposes Vicarious Retribution in Novel About Depraved Greed

One of the nice things about being both a pugnacious litigator and a novelist is that you can impose ruthless retroactive revenge on those denizens of the legal system who have dissed you.

By Garry Abrams
        
        One of the nice things about being both a pugnacious litigator and a novelist is that you can impose ruthless retroactive revenge on those denizens of the legal system who have dissed you.
        Thus, in the opening pages of well-known Santa Monica attorney Brian Lysaght's new novel, an elderly jud...

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