Great Fiction

The Litigators

by Lindsay G. Arthur, Jr.

Merit Award, Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA)

“A gripping tale… shows the human costs of our current pursuit of abstract justice.”
– Harold Edgar, Professor of Law, Columbia University

The Litigators exposes truths and failures in today’s court system. A woman living near a toxic waste site treated with genetically engineered microbes develops a mysterious neurological illness. By chance, she meets a passionate young lawyer at a neighborhood church supper. He seeks to find justice for his new financially struggling client and finds himself taking on the largest law firm in Minnesota. This winner-take-all legal battle brings together three tenacious lawyers and their clients in a way that forever changes the lives of all.

“Lindsay G. Arthur, Jr., is a forensic surgeon of our legal system who opens up its hidden recesses. . . . fictional in form, this book is truth in spirit. A story of power and ego run amuck.”
– Stephen B. Young, American Law Institute; and Former Dean and Professor of Law, Hamline Law School; and former Assistant Dean, Harvard Law School

Lindsay G. Arthur, Jr., is a nationally known lawyer who has tried over 150 cases during his 35-year career. In 1974 he founded his current firm, Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak, and Pikala, a highly regarded litigation firm in Minneapolis. He is also an entrepreneur, and in 1985, founded a biotech company that used genetic engineering to develop microorganisms to degrade toxic waste.