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"Join Ronan O'Neill, a Coast Guard Viet Nam War hero and now a highly-regarded civil litigator, and the people around him who form the nucleus of his life as he tells from his perspective about several of his paramount relationships and how his life courses change throughout his mid-life years, including forays into the world of high fashion, macro-medical science, and worldwide financial markets. Ronan's career in the Coast Guard Reserve ends. Yet, his legal work, anchored in California while spanning many U.S. jurisdictions, becomes ever more dramatic and complex in its scope, including twice influencing a U.S. governmental agency and coordinating his clients' interests while intertwined with some European Union financial markets, all while working with world-renowned scientists in the United Kingdom and France. While deeply enmeshed in this primary workload, Ronan's old client from Upstate New York calls on Ronan to assist with several matters of consequence, including one that is quickly identified as a potential ""you bet your company"" matter as a prospective Mass Tort! Though loyal to this past client and despite his overwhelming workload and evolving personal relationships, Ronan undertakes his old friend's requests to provide his defense efforts in these difficult areas. This fourth novel provides Ronan's autobiographical view of what, on reflection in his later years, became part of a continuing high plateau in his legal career. He is undergoing massive personal changes that will reshape how he will face much of the remainder of his life."

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"Patrick ""Pat"" Hagan was born and raised on the East Coast, and attended college at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia. He worked in data processing between D.C. and New York City, including three years at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, D.C. At age 28, he and his wife moved west, relocating in Marin County, California. Hagan went to law school at UCSF Hastings, then practiced as a civil litigation, primarily defense attorney in Oakland, then San Francisco, for 44 years. In addition to the California Supreme Court, Pat was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, four federal circuits, and many other federal and state courts. He has been invited to join numerous honorary legal organizations, published more than a dozen learned legal articles, and received copious awards, including a 2019 recognition as the leading contributor to the expansion of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms. He was active in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel for 31 years, ceasing his law practice at the end of 2019. San Anselmo is Hagan's fourth novel. His first three novels, Sausalito (2020), Mill Valley (2021), and Ross (2023) were also published by ALIVE Book Publishing."

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