About the Book
Ted Born and a young untested associate were called upon to defend a tough – seemingly impossible - lawsuit in one of the most challenging county courts in the United States. The facts looked bad: the client was a tire manufacturer of a tire that blew out, followed by a vehicular crash resulting in a child’s death, a brain injury for another child and other serious injuries. The dead and injured were all African American residents of a county where juries were all or mostly African Americans, with a history of rendering verdicts in generally millions of dollars in favor of local residents against big out-of-state corporations, even in minor cases. The case leads through a labyrinth of mystery and intrigue no one could have imagined as the trial date of a BIG one looms.This tense and high-octane drama explosively confronts the meaning of justice in the context of right-and-wrong, corporate and personal responsibilities, sympathy and objectivity, racial relations, and our judicial system as a means of resolving countervailing positions with their heavy emotional baggage.
The Author
Atty. Thad G. Long
Thad Long is a versatile attorney, with decades of practice handling difficult trials and other matters for defendants and plaintiffs in a changing litigious environment. Mr. Long took his undergraduate degree from Columbia University with a major in physics and his law degree from the University of Virginia where he served as Comments & Projects Editor of the Virginia Law Review and tapped for Order of the Coif.
