David Hosp
Author Firm: Goodwin Procter
Most Recent Book Title: Among Thieves
Publisher and Year Published: Grand Central Publishing, 2010
What It's About: Fiction - A thriller with fictional characters,
based on the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist 20 years ago,
deemed to be the largest art theft in history. The robbery has
never been solved.
Raffi Yessayan
Author Firm: Law Office of Raffi Yessayan
Most recent Book Title: 2 in the Hat
Publisher and Year Published: Ballantine Books, 2010
What It's About: Fiction - Against a backdrop of a spike in
Boston's gang homicides, a murderous psychopath steps out of the
past. His first book, 8 in the Box, is the story of
how a killer selects his victims.
Michael Fredrickson
Author agency: Board of Bar Overseers
Book Title: A Cinderella Affidavit
Publisher and Year Published: Mass Market Paperback, 2000
What It's About: Courtroom drama based on a real case,
Commonwealth v. Lewin. A drug bust goes wrong, a policeman
is shot, and a fictitious informant in a phony affidavit creates
problems for both the prosecutors and the police.
Fredrickson's other books are Witness for the Dead,
Defense for the Dead, and a work in progress, Kill All
the Lawyers.
Iris Gomez
Author Firm: Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Book Title: Try to Remember
Publisher and Year Published: Grand Central Publishing, 2010
What It's About: Fiction - A young Latina struggles with her
father's mental illness and its impact on her family - including
the possibility that they will lose their "green" cards as his
behavior becomes more aberrant - while trying to navigate a place
for herself in a new world.
Margaret McLean
Background: Boston College (teaches business law)
Book Title: Under Oath
Publisher and Year Published: Hot House Press, 2004
What It's About: Fiction - Murder trial of two Charlestown
hoodlums, whose accomplices locate and silence government witnesses
before they can testify. A second book, Under Fire, about
an arson/murder, is due out this year.
Brian Goodwin
Author Firm: Town and Country Legal Assocs.
Book Title: Pigeons and Doves (unpublished)
What It's About: Fiction - Undercover Buffalo undercover police
officer self-exiles to Massachusetts, rises to power in Boston mob
scene. Epic twist at the end.
Wendy Sibbison
Author Firm: Law Office of Wendy Sibbison
Book Title: Work in progress, working title, Helen in
Trouble
What It's About: Fiction - A 16-year old girl in 1963, living in
a Washington, D.C. suburb, gets pregnant when drunk with her
boyfriend. Her search for an illegal abortion, the world of her
middle-class family and friends, with the era's political and
social culture as the backdrop.
Christian G. Samito
Author Firm: Jouret & Samito LLP
Book Title: Becoming American Under Fire
Publisher and Year Published: Cornell University Press, 2009
What It's About: Nonfiction - How the military experiences and
political activism of Irish Americans and African Americans
influenced the redefinition of national citizenship that took place
during the Civil War era.
Robert A. Shaines
Author Firm: Shaines and McEachern PA
Book Title: Command Influence
Publisher and year published: SBG Publishing Group, 2010.
What It's About: Nonfiction - The story of a court martial in
1953 during the Korean War, against the backdrop of political
events occurring in South Korea. The circumstances surrounding the
trial highlighted the differences between military and civilian
proceedings, and eventually led to the 1955 Supreme Court case of
Toth v. Quarles, which dealt with a limit on the power of
the president to appoint military tribunals to try certain
civilians under his powers as set forth in the Uniform Code of
Military justice. Relevant to today's debates as to how to try
detainees.
Timothy Burke
Author Firm: Law Offices of Timothy Burke
Most Recent Book Title: The Paradiso Files
Publisher and year published: Steer Forth Press, hardcover
2008, pb 2009
What It's About: True-crime novel - An unknown serial killer who
operated in the Boston area for over 15 years, who was prosecuted
for one murder, other attempted rape/murders, and through the book
has been linked to as many as seven previously unsolved murders and
six rapes.