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The Burning Man

Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland law firm, disobeys the orders of his father, a senior partner in the same firm, and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big-city job and disinherited from his father's will, he is sent in disgrace to work as a public defender in a small Oregon town, where he represents a retarded man who is facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of a college co-ed.

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  • "Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland law firm, disobeys the orders of his father, a senior partner in the same firm, and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big-city job and disinherited from his father's will, he is sent in disgrace to work as a public defender in a small Oregon town, where he represents a retarded man who is facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of a college co-ed."
  • "Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland law firm, disobeys the orders of his father, a senior partner in the same firm, and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big-city job and disinherited from his father's will, he is sent in disgrace to work as a public defender in a small Oregon town, where he represents a retarded man who is facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of a college co-ed."@en
  • "After his father has a heart attack, a young attorney decides to take over his father's multi-million dollar case against his father's wishes. His ego causes him to lose the case, his job in his father's law firm, and his father's favor. While working as a public defender in a small Oregon town, he realizes his greed and ego may end up killing his client."
  • "Trying to salvage his reputation and his father's respect, an egotistical lawyer must put himself second as he handles a murder in the public defender's office in a small Oregon town."@en
  • "A struggling young attorney makes finds himself forced to take the job of public defender, where the case of a retarded man accused of a brutal murder forces him to realize what it takes to be a good lawyer."@en
  • "Trying to fill his father's shoes, young attorney Peter Hale tries a million dollar case against his father's wishes and ends up losing the case and his job. Hoping to win back his father's respect, he becomes a public defender."
  • "After botching a major case at his father's law firm, Peter Hale hopes to redeem himself as a small town's public defender. When he agrees to defend a retarded man in a murder case, Hale is forced to confront his own limitations."@en
  • "Peter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland's most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and his interitance, Peter's landed in the public defender's office of a small Oregon town and in the middle of a highprofile case that could make or break his career. His mentally handicapped client, accused of the savage murder of a college coed, faces the death penalty. And Peter faces a choice between the puruit of headlines and the pursuit of truth, between the compulsion to save himself and the courage to save his client in a devastating trial by fire."
  • "A cocky young attorney bungles a case, gets banished to small-town public defender's office. A murder case tests his mettle again."@en

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  • "Legal stories"
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  • "The Burning Man"@en
  • "The Burning Man Read by Campbell Scott"@en
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  • "The burning man"@en

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