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Robert Dugoni
Adele P. Kimmel
Robert Dugoni is an acclaimed author and attorney. In his latest novel Wrongful Death, he describes how, just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States Government and Military in the mysterious death of her husband James, a National Guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades old military doctrine might make Ford _s case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier himself, is compelled to find justice for the widow and her four children in what is certain to become the biggest challenge of his career.
Robert graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a degree in journalism and clerked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times before obtaining his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.?He has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for seventeen years. In 1999 he left the full-time practice of law to return to writing. In addition to The Cyanide Canary he is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. He lives with his wife and two children in the Pacific Northwest.
Robert graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a degree in journalism and clerked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times before obtaining his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.?He has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for seventeen years. In 1999 he left the full-time practice of law to return to writing. In addition to The Cyanide Canary he is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. He lives with his wife and two children in the Pacific Northwest.
Adele P. Kimmel is the Managing Attorney at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm that specializes in precedent-setting and socially significant individual and class action litigation. In this insightful interview, she discusses how Public Justice has a joined a lawsuit, Everett v. Cherry, charging the administrators and health care providers at two southern Virginia regional jails with medical negligence causing Sandra Kenley’s wrongful death and a violation of Ms. Kenley’s constitutional right to adequate medical care.
Adele is also currently lead appellate counsel in Castaneda v. United States, winning the first appeals court decision in the nation holding that U.S. Public Health Service officials may be sued for violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional right to adequate medical care. Additionally, Adele is the Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Civil Rights Section and has served on that Section’s Executive Board for over eight years. Adele received her B.A. degree with high honors from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and a participant in the Philosophy Honors Program. She received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1986, and was selected to represent the Philosophy Department in the Society of Fellows, and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985.
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Adele is also currently lead appellate counsel in Castaneda v. United States, winning the first appeals court decision in the nation holding that U.S. Public Health Service officials may be sued for violating immigrant detainees’ constitutional right to adequate medical care. Additionally, Adele is the Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Civil Rights Section and has served on that Section’s Executive Board for over eight years. Adele received her B.A. degree with high honors from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and a participant in the Philosophy Honors Program. She received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1986, and was selected to represent the Philosophy Department in the Society of Fellows, and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985.
You can listen to these fabulous guests on ABC Radio Networks or by listening now right here.
Hosted by Steve Murphy.
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Contact:
Robert Dugonihttp://www.robertdugoni.com/
Adele P. Kimmel
202-797-8600
Public Justice
http://www.publicjustice.net/
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STEVE MURPHY
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