All the Justice Money Can Buy is the true-life story of a courtroom showdown and the complex, high-dollar game of fighting corporate greed.
Investigative journalist and former National Public Radio (NPR) reporter, Snigdha Prakash, received rare access to the inner workings of a multi-million dollar trial that pitted Mark Lanier, a man many consider the most gifted trial lawyer of his generation, against a corporate giant willing to break every rule in the book—the drug maker Merck.
Lanier was representing plaintiffs who alleged they were injured by Merck’s painkiller Vioxx, which is estimated to have caused up to 140,000 cases of heart disease and up to 56,000 deaths over five years.
Each part of Lanier’s case had to go just right for him to win. He had done it twice before. Could he do it again?
Embedded with Lanier and his team for the seven-week trial, Prakash shadowed them from early mornings to late at night. Her fast-paced, often funny, account takes you into the trenches of the ferocious—and dirty—battle between corporations and the individual that plays out daily in the courts.
Part corporate exposé, part legal thriller, All the Justice Money Can Buy is a gripping—and topical—read for our troubled times.
http://www.amazon.com/All-Justice-Money-Can-Buy/dp/1607146304
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