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Meet Martha. She's not a lawyer, nor does she need to be. From her double-sized cubicle in a small-town Washington law office, Martha sees everything, hears everything, and quietly keeps the whole operation from going off the rails-while her boss, Mark Adams, takes all the credit and rakes in the big bucks. This is the story of four cases that land on Martha's desk in a single week: A drunk driver who killed his best friend. An insurance agent who robbed sweet old ladies and called it a paperwork problem. A woman with a bus-related injury in a very personal location. And a disabled man who went into the Kitsap County Jail and came out unable to walk, with no one willing to explain why. None of these cases is the clean, simple, rear-end collision Mark prefers, but they will all test the limits of the law, the patience of everyone involved, and Martha's ability to hold it all together while fielding a phone that never stops ringing. The Paralegal Speaks takes you behind the polished façade of the legal system and into the daily grind of a one-lawyer shop where justice is complicated, outcomes are uncertain, and the truth has a way of hiding in plain sight-usually under a pile of papers on the credenza, inches from the lawyer's elbow.

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Andy Becker is an award-winning writer, speaker, gardener, and former attorney who spent more than three decades practicing law in Port Orchard, Washington, just across the water from Seattle. Amid the quiet churn of cases and consequences, he began writing cautionary stories drawn from his legal experience.THE PARALEGAL SPEAKS is Becker's second novel, following THE KISSING RABBI, which was awarded a First Place Mark Twain Award for humor and satire. Becker's work lives at the intersection of wit and exposure-stories that entertain, unsettle, and quietly challenge the narratives we accept about how the world works. Beyond satire, his writing turns to the elemental, human spirituality, and the heart. In four additional books, Becker explores the deeper currents of gardening, environmentalism, and family-where growth is slower, quieter, but no less profound. His SPIRITUAL GARDEN SERIES includes THE SPIRITUAL GARDENER: Insights from the Jewish Tradition to Help Your Garden Grow, THE SPIRITUAL FOREST: Timeless Jewish Wisdom for a Healthier Planet and a Richer Spiritual Life, and ""GRANDY, LET'S PLAY!"" Reflections on the Joy, Blessings, and Wonder of Grandparenting. Lastly, as a love letter to his Mom, and moms everywhere, Andy wrote CRACKING an EGG, a collection of childhood short stories about growing up in the 1960s.

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