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Book Review: “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, October 2024 A book review of award-winning author James McBride's fictional novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.”
Retirement: Some of Its Joys and Some of Its Concerns By Hon. Robert J. Anderson, (ret.), Albert Durkin, David M. House, Timothy J. Howard, & Gary T. Rafool Employee Benefits, July 2024 The ISBA's Senior Lawyers Section Council recently appointed a subcommittee to address some of the interests and concerns of retired attorneys.
Book Review: Hold the Line By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2024 A summary and review of Hold the Line by Michael Fanone and John Shiffman.
Retirement: Some of Its Joys and Some of Its Concerns By Hon. Robert J. Anderson, (ret.), Albert Durkin, David M. House, Timothy J. Howard, & Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2024 The ISBA's Senior Lawyers Section Council recently appointed a subcommittee to address some of the interests and concerns of retired attorneys.
Book Review: ‘The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2023 A summary and review of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.
Book Review: ‘Servants of the Damned (Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption of Justice)’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, February 2023 A review and analysis of ‘Servants of the Damned’ by David Enrich.
2 comments (Most recent February 27, 2023)
Book Review: ‘The Last Mona Lisa’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, October 2022 A reivew of "The Last Mona Lisa" by Johnathan Santlofer.
Retirement: Some of Its Joys and Some of Its Concerns By Hon. Robert J. Anderson, (ret.), Albert Durkin, David M. House, Timothy J. Howard, & Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, February 2022 A discussion on some of the interests and concerns of retired attorneys.
2 comments (Most recent February 18, 2022)
Book Review: ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, December 2021 A review of the book “The Catcher Was A Spy” by Nicholas Dawidoff.
Book Review: ‘The Best of Robert Service’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, October 2021 A summary and review of the poetry anthology 'The Best of Robert Service.'
Book Review: ‘The Night Portrait’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, May 2021 A summary and review of Laura Morelli's "The Night Portrait."
Movie Review: ‘A Man Called Ove’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, January 2021 A summary and review of "A Man Called ove," a 2016 Swedish film.
Book Review: ‘The Only Woman in The Room’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, November 2020 A review of the book 'The Only Woman in the ROom' by Marie Benedict.
Book Review: ‘Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, September 2020 A summary of the 2019 book 'Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World' by Phillip Mudd.
Book Review: ‘American Dirt’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2020 A review of the 2019 book 'American Dirt' by Jeanine Cummins
2 comments (Most recent July 8, 2020)
Book Review: ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, March 2020 A review of the book 'Where the Crawdads Sing.'
Movie Review: ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, March 2020 A review of the movie 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.'
Book Review: ‘Bad Blood’ By Gary T. Rafool Intellectual Property, February 2020 A review of the book 'Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup' by John Carreyrou.
Book Review: ‘Bad Blood’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, December 2019 A review of the book 'Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup' by John Carreyrou.
Book review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, May 2019 A review of the book ‘Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI’ by David Grann.
Book review: The Bully Pulpit By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, March 2019 A book review of The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
1 comment (Most recent March 13, 2019)
Book review: The Last Day of Night By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, January 2019 A summary and review of The Last Day of Night by Graham Moore.
Book review: Being Mortal By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, November 2018 A summary of the 2014 book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
A book review of Hero of the Empire By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2018 A review of Hero of the Empire, which focuses on the life of Winston Churchill.
Book review: Testimony By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, February 2018 Unlike most of the Scott Turow's novels, Testimony does not take place so much in the court room, but it develops around an investigation during 2015 into the disappearance of some 400 gypsy refugees in Bosnia in 2004.
Book review: Inside The Kingdom (my life in Saudi Arabia) By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, October 2017 This book, published in 2004, gives an up-close look into everyday life in Saudi Arabia, particularly for women.
Book review: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2017 Author Jason Matthews was a CIA field operative for 33 years before retiring, and he appears to be using much of his CIA experiences as material for this book.
Book review: Lights Out By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, February 2017 A review of Ted Koppel's 2015 book.
Book review: Those Angry Days By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, October 2016 This reluctance of our country to enter World War II is described in the book titled Those Angry Days by Lynne Olson. It was published in 2013, and it is available in hard cover (461 pages), paperback and electronically.
Book review—Schwerpunkt: From D-Day to the Fall of the Third Reich By Gary T. Rafool Senior Lawyers, June 2016 A review of the book written by ISBA member and World War II historian Susan Gunty.

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