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Stalking Justice

If you like courtroom drama, these cases read like finely-crafted short stories, each laid out to create tension and capture the reader. In this autobiographical anthology of court cases, author Paul Katz selected from a legal career that spanned forty-plus years to comprise his second novel.

Katz was an assistant district attorney, a public defender, an insurance defense attorney, and a civil plaintive attorney in Louisiana state and federal courts and in state courts in Colorado. Entwined in these actual jury trials, Katz freely describes his personal impressions, comparisons, and criticisms about the advantages and disadvantages of how each legal system worked or failed to deliver “justice” since justice wasn’t always the goal. He removes the gloves and exposes the underbelly of systems that were never perfect and move, in his opinion, in the wrong direction from the Supreme Court on down.

These stories provide entertainment to the casual reader and instruction to students of law who aspire to be advocates in the court room. The cases provide examples of how to look at the facts deeply, realistically, and most importantly, from the points of view of the actors.

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Paul “P.L.” Katz

Author P.L. Katz grew up in New Orleans attending public schools before graduating fromLSU in 1968. While at LSU, he majored in mathematics and was captain of the LSU Wrestling Team where he was the SAAU Wrestling Champion at 167 pounds. Katz attended graduate school at USL (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) majoring in Applied Mathematics before entering Law School.

As a practicing attorney, Katz worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Orleans, St. Tammany, and St. Bernard Parishes as well as in the public defender’s office in New Orleans. In private practice, Katz worked in an insurance defense firm before changing sides and representing injured people against the insurance industry and large corporations predominantly involved in auto accidents and maritime accidents. 

Katz lived in Covington, Louisiana on the northshore of Lake Ponchartrain for 20 years before moving to Boulder, Colorado where he now resides. He has three children and enjoys all that Colorado has to offer, including hiking, skiing, river rafting, and snow shoeing.

Katz is also an avid traveler and has been to over 100 countries, most recently Sri Lanka. He began writing his debut novel  “Disorder” while traveling alone on the Trans Siberian Railroad somewhere between Vladivostok and Novosibirsk in 2014.

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A great read! It brings back memories of when Paul and I worked in the New Orleans criminal court building we called ‘Tulane and Broad.’ I highly recommend it to curious non-lawyers, law students, and to practicing lawyers because it details, in a fun and enlightening way, what goes on behind the scenes in important legal cases.

– Honorable James E. McKay III
Chief Judge of Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
Former President of American Judges Association
Former Judge of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

A Novel by P.L. Katz

Disorder

When Pierre – a troubled war veteran – discovers his girlfriend Ellen is an expensive call girl, he has to make some hard decisions. Pierre has lost brothers fighting against political enemies in Afghanistan. When he discovers that the very people Ellen services are profitting off the backs of other soldiers and students like him, it throws his world over the edge and drags him back to a vow he made to himself on the battlefield. Even as he plans the perfect murder, he is torn between the soldier protecting his country, the comrade in arms protecting his buddies, and the lover protecting his mate.

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Disorder is a legal thriller in which a decorated Afghan war veteran returns home to New Orleans to discover political corruption, business scandal, prostitution, and true love. Along the way, the reader learns the intracies of how a murder trial is conducted from the writer, who is an accomplished trial lawyer. Fascinating and insightful!

– Charles Hecht-Leavitt

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