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"Sydney Emerson and Jacob Lehman met at the U.S. Supreme Court where they worked for one year as clerks to two Justices. Together they dealt with issues of law and politics and media at the highest levels in Washington, DC, and while all that was happening, they fell in love. They were an unlikely couple, she a Californian, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar; he a Jersey boy from New York University Law School. They met and courted at the Supreme Court. In Courting Justice, the sequel to Recusal, following the lives of Sydney and Jacob as they set out as a married couple commuting in California, Sydney as a law professor at Stanford, Jake a trial lawyer in a boutique firm in San Francisco, where they would live"--
About the author
Ronald Goldfarb, Washington DC attorney, author and literary agent uses the pseudonym R.L. Sommer to distinguish his fiction (Courtship was his first novel, published in 2015) from his extensive (13 books, 600 articles, reviews, and op-eds) non-fiction work. Sommer (Goldfarb) studied at Syracuse University (A.B., LL. B.) and Yale Law School (LLM, JSD), worked for three years as a trial counsel in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps, and for Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for four years in the Justice Department prosecuting organized crime cases and in New York as Kennedy’s speech writer in the 1964 election. His website (www.ronaldgoldfarb.com) lists his many writings and unique role in public affairs to the present.
Summary
"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?
