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The Inheritance
Joanna Goodman
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From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The
Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter
story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to
together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an
affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year
after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply
in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three children.
Then an unexpected call from a well-known estate lawyer in New York
offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a complex legal
journey that could mean the difference between a life of abject
poverty and unthinkable wealth thanks to her father, deceased
billionaire Wallace Barclay. Thirty years before, Arden's mother
Virginia Bunt, a flirtatious love addict with a string of failed
affairs, met Wallace, an encounter that transformed her life. When
he died unexpectedly without a will, Virginia fought to secure a
comfortable future for her and the secret unborn daughter she
shared with Wallace. Yet despite her best efforts, society and the
legal system prevented her from receiving the money that should
rightfully have been hers. Now, though, with changes in the legal
system and science, her daughter Arden may finally succeed in
claiming the inheritance that has been long denied. Told from both
Arden and Virginia's viewpoints, straddling past and present, and
moving from Toronto to New York City, The Inheritance is a poignant
portrait of familial bonds, haunting pasts, the collateral damage
of life choices, and the promise of hopeful futures as two
venerable women fight for the life they deserve.
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The Inheritance
Joanna Goodman
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R545
R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
Save R114 (21%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The
Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter
story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to
together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an
affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year
after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply
in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three children.
Then an unexpected call from a well-known estate lawyer in New York
offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a complex legal
journey that could mean the difference between a life of abject
poverty and unthinkable wealth thanks to her father, deceased
billionaire Wallace Barclay. Thirty years before, Arden's mother
Virginia Bunt, a flirtatious love addict with a string of failed
affairs, met Wallace, an encounter that transformed her life. When
he died unexpectedly without a will, Virginia fought to secure a
comfortable future for her and the secret unborn daughter she
shared with Wallace. Yet despite her best efforts, society and the
legal system prevented her from receiving the money that should
rightfully have been hers. Now, though, with changes in the legal
system and science, her daughter Arden may finally succeed in
claiming the inheritance that has been long denied. Told from both
Arden and Virginia's viewpoints, straddling past and present, and
moving from Toronto to New York City, The Inheritance is a poignant
portrait of familial bonds, haunting pasts, the collateral damage
of life choices, and the promise of hopeful futures as two
venerable women fight for the life they deserve.
Legal services providers today need to innovate in their business
models, delivery methods, and moreover in their value propositions
in order to compete against competition coming in all shapes and
sizes (and from unexpected quarters). New Directions in Legal
Services examines the fast pace of change in the legal services
sector, driven in part by new technologies, and considers what the
future holds. We also look at some examples of new business models
and service delivery methods that are disrupting the market, and
the new approaches to pricing and profitability that are necessary
to support new ways of working and delivering legal services. With
research, insight and real world case studies from law firm
leaders, NewLaw pioneers, in-house counsels, academics,
consultants, and legal futurists New Directions in Legal Services
covers: The impact of technology on the traditional law firm
business model New business models altering the legal services
landscape, driven by AI and emerging technologies Moving beyond AI
and CC, what is the next big thing for legal services? How Design
Thinking can be applied to legal service design The evolving legal
talent pool Rethinking pricing and profitability to support new
ways of delivering legal services Umbrella models for law firms
Unbundling legal services and new options for in-house teams Law
firm-client collaboration through the managed legal network
Business model innovation - Implementing and sustaining change The
message to the legal sector could not be clearer: innovate or die.
New Directions in Legal Services clearly outlines how individuals,
law firms, and legal departments are accepting the challenge and
are innovating alongside the New Law service providers that have
taken root in the industry to provide a growing array of options
for lawyers and clients
The legal sector is facing a period of major metamorphosis -
disruptors are making waves in the structuring, process, and
service-delivery models, and client's needs are becoming more
demanding and value-focused. As the landscape of law transforms
many firms will be left facing a situation of, in John Alber's
words, change or die. How will law firms keep up with upcoming
rapid and volatile changes to the legal sector, and what form will
they take after the transformation? What will the law firm of the
future be like, and what can firms do today to ensure they are
properly future proofed? Lawscape 2025: Defining the law firm of
tomorrow is an exploration of the biggest innovations, strategies,
and disruptors that are set to change the face of legal practice.
Featuring leading industry experts weighing in on topics such as
future firm structures and leadership strategies, revolutionised
compensation measures, and the growing prevalence of big data,
analytics, and artificial intelligence, this title will serve as a
trusty manual on surviving the changing landscape of the legal
world.
"For those lawyers who fall into that group of wanting to better
understand AI, there may be no better starting point than Robots in
Law" -Robert Ambrogi, Above The Law Although 2016 was the
breakthrough year for artificial intelligence (AI) in legal
services in terms of market awareness and significant take-up,
legal AI represents evolution rather than revolution. Since the
first `robot lawyers' started receiving mainstream press coverage,
many law firms, other legal service providers, and law colleges are
being asked what they are doing about AI. Robots in Law: How
Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Legal Services is designed
to provide a starting point in the form of an independent primer
for anyone looking to get up to speed on AI in legal services. The
book is organized into four distinct sections: Part I: Legal AI -
Beyond the hype Part II: Putting AI to work Part III: AI giving
back - Return on investment Part IV: Looking ahead The first three
present an in-depth overview, and analysis, of the current legal AI
landscape; the final section includes contributions from AI experts
with connections to the legal space, on the prospects for legal AI
in the short-term future. "AI is here now. And going to work in law
firms. In the second half of 2016, hardly a week went by without
some firm, academic or start-up announcing an innovation. Anyone
inclined to dismiss this entirely as hype should read Robots in
Law. In 150-odd pages we get a clear round-up of what is happening
plus (perhaps more interestingly) some predictions from the best
human brains in the business about what it all means." - Michael
Cross, editor, The Law Society Gazette Along with the emergence of
New Law and the burgeoning lawtech start-up economy, AI is part of
a new dynamic in legal technology and it is here to stay. The
question now is whether AI will find its place as a facilitator of
legal services delivery, or whether it will initiate a shift in the
value chain that will transform the legal business model. "This
book, is recommended for all those wanting to catch up with AI, or
those needing to catch up (whether they want to or not). That is
pretty much all of us." - Laurence Eastham, Editor of Computers
& Law, The Society for Computers and Law Magazine
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