May It Please the Court!: From Auto Accidents to Agent Orange - Building a Storefront Practice Into America's Largest Suburban Law Firm

by Leonard L. Rivkin

May It Please the Court! tells the remarkable story of attorney Leonard Rivkin, who in 1950 opened a one-man law practice in the back of an insurance brokerage office in Freeport, Long Island. Thirty-five years later, Mr. Rivkin had built his practice into the largest suburban law firm in the United States. Rivkin attributes the growth of his law practice and his success as a litigator to his aggressive, creative approach to business development and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890899150
• ISBN13: 9780890899151
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Awesome

This is a fascinating review of a very interesting life. The "greatest generation" didn't always lead to such incredible success, but in this case Rivkin took his GI money to law school, a one person practice and built it into a big law firm despite incredible odds, some real setbacks and a lot of determination. The inside story on the Agent Orange case was a real eye opener even for another lawyer but would be just as interesting (maybe even more so) for lay people. Highly recommend.

May It Please The Court!

.I found Leonard Rivkin's book, "May It Please The Court!" to be very entertaining, interesting, and very easy to read. My trepidation of picking up and reading a book written by a lawyer were totally unfounded.I expected to be bored by legal mumbo jumbo and boring statistics. It was quite a pleasant surprise to find the book reading more like a novel. My principle purpose was to read the chapters on Agent Orange. Mr.Rivkin's accounting of the "behind the scenes" activities and proceedings truly opened my eyes to many obscure, but highly pertinent details and facts. I have come away with a new attitude toward the subject.My assessment of this book, and Mr. Rivkin's ability to shed light on Agent Orange where it has not been shown before, gets my "two thumbs up".Capt Patrick McCrary