Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1615273 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-16
• Released on: 2008-12-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Should replace the Buffalo Creek Disaster
This book should replace The Buffalo Creek Disaster as the primary supplement to all first year civil procedure cases. Charles Carreon demonstrates how a sole practitioner, with his wits about him, can invoke and deploy the awesome power of the federal courts for the benefit of his client.

And it's a hell of a lot of fun to read. To summarize, Carreon took, as a contingent fee, an interest in the domain name "Sex.com" in exchange for his services in retaking the domain for the benefit of his client, the Internet entrepreneur Gary Kremen. Kremen registered this domain in the early days of the Internet (before domain names were understood as property) only to have it stolen out from under him by an extremely sophisticated con artist and forger named Steve Cohen. During the Internet boom of the late 90's, Kremen watched in horror as the stolen domain was converted by Cohen into a goldmine for Internet pornography, with massive proceeds. Cohen hid the fruits of his theft with a byzantine fortress of shell corporations, offshore accounts and forged documents.

Kremen was the victim of a crime, but no sane lawyer would touch his case. Cohen's asset protection castle looked impregnable, the value of any treasure inside uncertain. After years of shopping his case around, Kremen finally found Charles Carreon, who was at the time a sole practitioner and criminal defense attorney. With limited resources, in an unsettled area of law, against impossible odds, Carreon took the case on and heroically litigated it to unconditional victory. This book is the roadmap to that victory.

Even if Civ Pro bores you to tears, this is a sensational book that keeps the pages turning. But if you want to learn how a wily solo can use the Rules like a sorcerer - if you want to learn how to use discovery to expose even the most sophisticated and shameless liars, this book is for you. Reading the Rules, cold, will teach you nothing about how the game is really played. This book shows how litigation works in practice, where the lawyer in question actually cares about the outcome and not just the billables.

Carreon has a lot of heart, and he is candid about his failures. This sort of candor is extremely rare in legal war stories; most lawyers are terrified of appearing weak. But war stories are cheap, rarely true, and utterly unhelpful to the young lawyer. Carreon's strength is his willingness to share. He made serious strategic mistakes, played right up to the lines of ethics, was sued by Cohen for defamation and by his own client for malpractice. Worst of all, he did not collect in full. But he discloses all of this up front, so we can learn. Importantly, Carreon focuses on the delicate human relationships spawned by the bizarre personalities of wealthy clients. He walks us through the minefield of shifting allegiances and strange bedfellows that developed throughout the case. The author is streetwise, and street wisdom comes only from the school of hard knocks.

This is most interesting book I have ever read about the practice of law. It should be read by all law students and young lawyers, especially those who will be swimming with sharks.

Travels With Charlie Carreon
Before you travel to the dark side of compulsion, establish reliable friendships with persons willing to send lawyers, guns, and money to aide your cause. Then in any pinch you might imagine, tell your friends to send Charles Carreon in the role of the white-hat lawyer. If your dark compulsion is merely literary in nature, Carreon fills big shoes as he stands and delivers. This is one tome you can turn over and spank time and again.

The title 'Sex(dot)Com' suggests a titillating romp through prurient, morbid, degrading and unhealthy sex -- (as distinguished from a mere candid interest in sex) -- but wait, there's more. And here's the trick: it involves metaphors and dreams ...

This book will aptly service law students who need know there is pay at risk in any great dream of adventure. The young lawyer may wear a white hat and can see where the bodies lay in the dark, but just beyond knowledge and vision, there is someone always willing to pervert one's sense of justice when it comes to payday. The 'Sex(dot)Com' story is one of hard work and deception -- Yes! Go do the hard work, but be prepared to get stiffed, and sometimes more than once a day.

Literary Lotharios will find 'Sex(dot)Com' more than a just dream of pay and adventure as the book nakedly exposes metaphors that seduce the reader at every turn of the page. These are metaphors big and small that will jiggle your senses and slap you in the face with amusements and insights, metaphors that engage parts of your brain in ways that would make your cat scan flush with excitement. These are metaphors made of words and phrases to stoke your dreams, for they turn you beyond the mere reading of text, to visual imagery you can undress in your brain in the twilight hours of contemplation and understanding, and you'll respect yourself the morning-after for the romp well engaged.

Charles Carreon's book 'Sex(dot)Com' is a wet dream for those who love law, language, and the sensation of a wet tongue in the ear.

An Intriguing tale with a wild ride down the legal rabbit hole
This is an intriguing story that takes you down the rabbit hole of legal machinations. Besides being a tale characterized as a "wilderness of mirrors" involving an array of colorful characters; it is a well written account of how an extraordinary battle shaped the history and development of the internet for commercial use. While there are plenty of circumstances entailing evil deception and the exciting lure of money here, there are also moments of self discovery. Charles Carreon has written an important book for future law students and anyone interested in a modern day adventure. I highly recommend this book.