Ross - Hagan, Patrick J.

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Résumé :
Join Ronan O'Neill, a Coast Guard Viet Nam War hero and now a civil litigator, and the people around him who form the nucleus of his life, as he tells from his perspective about several of his paramount relationship changes and how his life course begins to shift in his middle years, including unexpected forays into the world of high fashion. Ronan's career in the Coast Guard Reserve nears its end. Yet, his legal work, anchored in California while spanning many U.S. jurisdictions, becomes more dramatic and complex in its scope and increasingly entangled with an intertwining of interests in some European Union financial markets and with world-renowned scientists in the United Kingdom and France. While deeply enmeshed in his primary workload, an old client from Upstate New York calls on Ronan to assist with a dreadful accident involving its signature product line in a small, difficult to access county in the California hills where much of the Gold Rush played out almost 150 years before. Ever loyal to this past client and despite his overwhelming workload and his evolving personal relationships, Ronan undertakes his old friend's request for his defense efforts in this area known as The Gold Country. This third novel provides Ronan's autobiographical view of what, on the reflection of his later years, may be part of the highest plateau of his career in law while he is undergoing massive personal changes that will reshape how he will face much of the remainder of his life....

Biographie:
Patrick Pat Hagan was born and raised on the East Coast, and attended college at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia. He worked in data processing between D.C. and New York City, including three years at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, D.C. At age 28, he and his wife moved west, relocating in Marin County, California. Hagan went to law school at UCSF Hastings, then practiced as a civil litigation, primarily defense attorney in Oakland, then San Francisco, for 44 years. In addition to the California Supreme Court, Pat was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, four federal circuits, and many other federal and state courts. He has been invited to join numerous honorary legal organizations, published more than a dozen learned legal articles, and received copious awards, including a 2019 recognition as the leading contributor to the expansion of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms. He was active in the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel for 31 years, ceasing his law practice at the end of 2019. San Anselmo is Hagan's fourth novel. His first three novels, Sausalito (2020), Mill Valley (2021), and Ross (2023) were also published by ALIVE Book Publishing....