Kirjahaku

Mill Valley, the sequel to Sausalito, provides a heretofore untapped "window" into the multi-billion-dollar asbestos litigation as it started in the late 1970s and expanded in the 1980s, through the eyes and legal maneuverings of Ronan O'Neill. Overlaying these courtroom and backroom machinations are the relationships of Ronan and the many women with whom he interacts, as well as all of those who came to trust in him.Written on a palette of not just California, but the United States, and at times parts of Europe, this second work of this author's historical fiction brings the reader along to visit the places and issues that helped to shape modern Mass Tort litigation as we have come to know it today.A great deal of what is written on these pages is as applicable today as it was decades ago, when these events occurred.

Join Ronan O'Neill, a Coast Guard Viet Nam War hero and now a 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 relationship changes and how his life course begins to shift in his middle years, including unexpected forays into the world of high fashion. Ronan's career in the Coast Guard Reserve nears its end. Yet, his legal work, anchored in California while spanning many U.S. jurisdictions, becomes more dramatic and complex in its scope and increasingly entangled with an intertwining of interests in some European Union financial markets and with world-renowned scientists in the United Kingdom and France.While deeply enmeshed in his primary workload, an old client from Upstate New York calls on Ronan to assist with a dreadful accident involving its signature product line in a small, difficult to access county in the California hills where much of the Gold Rush played out almost 150 years before. Ever loyal to this past client and despite his overwhelming workload and his evolving personal relationships, Ronan undertakes his old friend's request for his defense efforts in this area known as The Gold Country.This third novel provides Ronan's autobiographical view of what, on the reflection of his later years, may be part of the highest plateau of his career in law while he is undergoing massive personal changes that will reshape how he will face much of the remainder of his life.

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.