Rick Black and Jake McShane are former law school classmates with very different approaches to life and the law. Rick is a brilliant, ultracompetitive trial lawyer who believes winning is everything. He openly mocks the legal system, claiming that a lawyer who is a great storyteller can fool a jury every time. He is determined to exploit that weakness in our system, regardless of the havoc that … that wreaks on innocent lives. When an upstanding pillar of the community is victimized by Rick’s unscrupulous tactics, Jake is determined to bring his former classmate to justice—if he can do so without sacrificing his own integrity. Their approaches, skills and convictions are put to the test when they clash as opposing counsel in a high-stakes class action lawsuit. Dirty tricks, intimidation, intrigue—even homicide—become part of the backdrop as the litigation unfolds. Consequential Damages is a compelling legal drama full of twists, turns and suspense. And, it will make you think!
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Strong characters with completely opposite personalities. Right wins out.
Good read
A little slow getting into it, but a great ending.
As a lawyer I loved this book
Awesome story! Won’t want to put it down!
What great characters – good guy and bad guy….I work in the law field so can relate – wasn’t sure how this book would end – want to read more from this author; it was definitely a page turner
Celeste
This book leaves you wanting more of these characters.
Definitely an above average read- I recommend it…
very good book.
This story made me think…where would I stand on some of the issues… Great thriller
I like legal “thrillers”. This is a good one.
Best book I have read in a while. Loved it
wait till the finish, am reading it now
This book was great from the start….I’ll be looking for more of this author’s books!
Excellent excellent book -loved it
Somewhat blatantly moralistic but that comes through a fairly interesting plot.
The plot was great and the court dramas and process of the class-action lawsuit, with all its twists and turns, was fun. But I found the writing itself to be choppy and pedantic and, at the end of the story, very “preachy”. It’s like the author conceived this great story with an underlying theme of ethics, but felt like he had to really hammer it home at the end.
I started this series with a single book on the “free” list and have bought and read every one available on Book Bub. If you like courtroom drama, great plot twists, and investigative work then this is a series for you.
The story was a bit too much of a cliche – two classmates, one almost too nice and moral to be true and the other an amoral psychopath – and, therefore, predictable from the very first discussion of ethics by Rick and Jake. Even their surnames – Blanc and McShane – define which is good and which is not. Further, the description of the practice of law is overly simplistic and many of the incidents in the two trials would never have occurred in a real trial. Nonetheless, I read every page and enjoyed book’s gemutlich quality of Rick and the good people around him, some of whom Rick “saved”, demolishing Rick and his evil or mindless cohorts.
Ed Note: Reviewer’s 40+ years as Federal Prosecutor and then trial attorney may have colored opinions
Easy read