When she was not yet a teenager, Kate Hope started βreading lawβ in the office of βJudgeβ Hope, her half-blind grandfather, a grumpy eighty-nine-year-old lawyer with problems. One big problem is that he believes in justice for all, not just those who can afford it. He also needs a partner. Together
The Trials of Kate Hope
β Scribed by Wick Downing
- Book ID
- 100089885
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Houghton Mifflin Co
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547528337
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β¦ Synopsis
A teen lawyer stars in a novel that "portrays a girl possessing power in the actual world, trusting her own mind and conscience and sense of justice" (Los Angeles Times).
When she was not yet a teenager, Kate Hope started "reading law" in the office of "Judge" Hope, her half-blind grandfather, a grumpy eighty-nine-year-old lawyer with problems. One big problem is that he believes in justice for all, not just those who can afford it. He also needs a partner. Together they find a loophole in Colorado law, and Kate becomes a lawyerβtechnically. She has a law license hanging on the wall in her office, but she has no idea how to practice law. In a courtroom. With a judge and jury and defendants.
It doesn't help that things don't start out so well for Kate's legal career. The firm of Hope and Hope has an unusual first case, and if they lose it, a dog named Hermanβthe only friend an old woman hasβwill be destroyed. But Kate's...
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