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Length: 10 hours and 44 minutes
Author: David Enrich
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Category: Specific Topics
Publisher: HarperAudio
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From the New York Occasions’s Enterprise Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling creator of Darkish Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing but shadowy energy wielded by the world’s largest regulation corporations, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the agency that represented the Trump marketing campaign and far of the Fortune 500, as a strong encapsulation of the adjustments which have swept the authorized business in latest many years.In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Darkish Towers, David Enrich introduced the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Financial institution grew to become the worldwide face of economic recklessness and criminality. Now Enrich turns his eye in direction of the world of “Huge Regulation” and the practically unchecked affect these corporations wield to defend the rich and highly effective—and bury their secrets and techniques. To inform this story, Enrich focuses on Jones Day, one of many world’s largest regulation corporations. Jones Day’s narrative arc—based in Cleveland in 1893, it grew to become the primary regulation agency to develop nationally and is now a world juggernaut with deep ties to company pursuits and conservative politics—is a strong encapsulation of the adjustments which have swept the authorized business in latest many years.Since 2016, Jones Day has been within the highlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)—and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, together with White Home Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged Obamacare. Its as soon as and future legal professionals defended Trump’s Muslim ban and border insurance policies and dealt with his judicial nominations. Jones Day even laid a number of the authorized groundwork for Trump to problem the legitimacy of the 2020 election.However the Trump work is however one chapter within the agency’s checkered historical past. Jones Day, like lots of its friends, have grow to be extremely efficient enablers of the enterprise world’s worst misbehavior. The agency has for many years represented Huge Tobacco in its combat to keep away from legal responsibility for its merchandise. Jones Day labored tirelessly for the Catholic Church because it tried to attenuate its sexual-abuse scandals. And for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, because it sought to guard its proper to make and market its dangerously addictive drug. And for Fox Information because it waged conflict towards staff who had been the victims of sexual harassment and retaliation. And for Russian oligarchs as their corporations sought to develop internationally.On this gripping and revealing new work of narrative nonfiction, Enrich makes the compelling central argument that regulation corporations like Jones Day play a vital but largely hidden position in enabling and defending highly effective dangerous actors in our society, housing their darkest secrets and techniques, and incomes billions in income for themselves. PLEASE NOTE: Whenever you buy this title, the accompanying PDF shall be accessible in your Audible Library together with the audio.
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