Barbara Sattler, a criminal defense attorney and judge, and Kenney Hegland, a law professor, were married 37 years. Barbara is the author of four previous novels. Kenney—aka Yoda, sage of the law—wrote several non-fiction books about elder law and trial practice and one novel, Law School Chronicles. He died shortly after Perez and O’Grady, Lawyers was completed.
Perez and O'Grady, Lawyers
by Barbara Sattler and Kenney Hegland
Perez and O'Grady, Lawyers
by Barbara Sattler and Kenney Hegland
Published Nov 09, 2020
202 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Legal
Book Details
Take a peek behind the scenes of a quirky new law firm—you’ll never look at lawyers the same way again!
When Frank Perez and Sean O’Grady leave stable jobs to start a law firm, they struggle for four years before admitting they need help. So they take a chance on Lucy Wagner, who has all the right stuff—as well as a history of drug addiction. Two years clean, Lucy’s passed the bar, but Perez and O’Grady worry that she won’t be able to stay clean or be admitted to practice. Have they made a horrible mistake?
Perez and O’Grady, Lawyers chronicles the lawyers as they meet with scared clients at the jail in the middle of the night; tell parents that even if they pay the bill, they can’t call the shots; and negotiate plea deals with prosecutors and then try to sell them to their clients. Follow a trial for date-rape from the accused’s arrest through his trial and what follows after the verdict. The firm also represents a dying client who wants to cut her son from her will because he’s gay, and a drug dealer who Lucy believes killed an old friend.
Running through the drama is a lingering question: Will the firm prosper, or is hiring Lucy the beginning of the end?