Courting Justice (Recusal 2)
"Anything by R.L. Sommer, or his alter-ego, Ron Goldfarb, is a MUST read!" –Kitty Kelley, author of Oprah: A Biography
Jake Lehman and his wife, Sydney, have left Washington D.C. for a fresh start in San Francisco. Their legal careers are on the rise, but so are tensions between them as they continually find themselves on opposing sides of cases concerning judicial ethics and gender equality. Their conflicting views―coupled with growing career obligations, social pressures, and constant travel―come to a head when both Jake and Sydney are recommended for a Supreme Court seat.
With rising pressure threatening to divide the Lehmans, an innocent encounter is misconstrued by prying eyes and puts their relationship and Jake's career in jeopardy. Can Jake and Sydney's relationship withstand the intricacies of these cases and the complications of their careers?
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Book details
- Author
- R.L. Sommer
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Legal
Fiction › Political - Topics
- legal thriller · political fiction · Supreme Court · judicial ethics · gender equality · marriage and career · San Francisco · courtroom drama
- ISBN-13
- 9781684424993 (Paperback)9781684425006 (Hardcover)
About the author
R.L. SOMMER was the pen name of Ronald Goldfarb (1933–2025), a Washington, D.C. attorney, literary agent, and author of 13 nonfiction books as well as hundreds of articles, reviews, and op-eds. He adopted the pseudonym to distinguish his fiction from his nonfiction work.
Goldfarb held degrees from Syracuse University (A.B., LL.B.) and Yale Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.). He served three years as a trial counsel in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps and four years in the Justice Department under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, prosecuting organized crime cases and serving as Kennedy’s speechwriter during the 1964 New York Senate campaign. His firm, Goldfarb & Associates, maintained offices in Washington, D.C., and Miami. He passed away in May 2025.