Georgetown Professor Abbe Smith's new book, Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story, is about to hit the presses. The book chronicles Abbe's decades long quest to exonerate a woman who had been wrongly imprisoned for 28 years.
I had a chance to read an excerpt from it in the Washington Post (thanks to Steve Berenson in his comment for the updated link) and it's a riveting account of the many difficult issues that criminal defense lawyers regularly face. I was particularly interested in how Abbe deals with the problem of pressuring a client to accept a plea that the lawyer believes is in the client's best interests but that the client is reluctant to accept.
Aside from containing great content, it's also a wonderful read. Here is a flier about the book.