{"id":14,"date":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/856702\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:29:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem.net\/AuthorHouse\/871868\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Blue Collar Lawyer<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>By: <strong><strong><strong>Emmet Thornton<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">After graduating from a second-tier law school Eddie Houlihan unexpectedly won job at a high-powered big city law firm. <br><br>This is the story of his first year of law practice. He is forced to deal with issues of conflict of interest, law firm snobbery, legal ethics, litigation deadlines, discovery obligations and strategy, deposition tactics, trial tactics and strategy, admissibility of evidence, office politics and more. <br><br>The story ends with a climactic jury verdict in his first trial.<br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#f5f5f5\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong>About The Author<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Emmet Thornton was born and raised in New York. He joined the United States Air Force and served four years as a translator of the Northern Dialect of Vietnamese. 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