In the Game: The Highs and Lows of a Trailblazing Trial Lawyer

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The book includes high-profile David v. Goliath courtroom dramas and backstories.

The author joined the bar in 1975, when only 3 percent of all California lawyers were women, and virtually none were trial lawyers.

The author is an entrepreneur who launched her own litigation practice in 1975, one of the first women to do so in California.

The author started her law practice on the heels of the Second Wave Feminist Movement, during the backlash against women.

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When Peggy Garrity began her career, fewer than 3 percent of lawyers were women, and fewer than 1 percent of lawyers were brilliantand she was in both categories. A single mother, and a singular force in the courtroom, Garrity litigated cases with one would-be assassin, several murderers, many movie stars, and far too many domestic violence perpetrators. In the Game tells her stories the way Garrity does everything: compellingly. Gavin de Becker, best-selling author of The Gift of Fear In the Game offers an insight into a high stakes legal world and a lawyer who fought in the trenches. Geri Spieler, author of Taking Aim At The President You wont be able to put this fast-paced memoir down. Garrity has you hooked by the first page with her exploits as one of the few female litigators in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Her humor and searing honesty reveals what it takes to stay In The Game in a legal system that underestimates women with a resolve like Garritys. A brilliant read. Maureen Murdock, author of The Heroines Journey If you think that Courtroom trials are dull and boring, you haven't experienced the epee-like skills of Peggy Garrity, acting as a powerful legal advocate for her clients! In covering hundreds of trials, I have seen the many degrees of lawyering and legal wrangling, and Ms. Garrity is one of the best. In the Game is a great read, and a great ride . . . with a look into the many facets of a well-lived life and career. Mona Shafer Edwards, Courtroom Illustrator and author of Captured: Inside the World of Celebrity Trials In the Game will shed light on the injustices of the justice system and the ways a strong, determined trial lawyer can make a difference in her client's life. When I first met Peggy Garrity, I was a broken woman fighting to protect my severely autistic child. Where other attorneys saw only obstacles and endless litigation, Peggy found opportunities and even showed me I could laugh again. To this day if she told me to 'do cartwheels in the courthouse hallway,' I would. Peggy Garrity saved our lives. Elaine Hall, author, Now I See the Moon: a Mother, A Son, and the Miracle of Autism, star of the Emmy award winning HBO documentary Autism: The Musical Peggy Garrity is a force of nature, one that has defied expectations her entire life. While she may best be known for single-handedly winning the toughest headline-grabbing cases against all odds, her real mark may well be in shredding all the stereotypes we have of lawyers as uncaring and manipulative mercenaries. Her story, In The Game, is a funny, and exceptional chronicle of how one brilliant woman, driven by an unerring drive for truth, can and does fight for and win at both law and life. Rod Stryker, author of The Four Desires and founder of Parayoga "In the Game is the riveting memoir of a trailblazing woman who blasted down the locked doors that had effectively shut women out of the practice of law since the writing of the Ten Commandments. Her strength, her spirit, and her brilliance shine through these pages and show how it took all of that to overcome the enormous obstacles put in her way. Marcia Clark, author of crime novel Blood Defense and former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Garrity is further proof that women really do run the world. Redbook.com

Author Bio

Peggy Garrity grew up in the Mississippi River hamlet of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, population 6,000a town with two Catholic churches, four Catholic schools, and fifty bars and pubs. After attending night law school for five years and having three babies, she was admitted to the California State Bar in December 1975, after which she launched a solo practice. She retired from the full-time practice of law in December 2004, but remains committed to the law through her writing, consulting, legal commentary, and handling a few select civil rights cases. Garrity also teaches yoga and meditation privately. The LA Times published her op-ed about the Halliburton rape cases, About that Day In Court, in 2008. Garrity is a doting grandmother of six.