Michael Minns's The Underground Lawyer was written as a symbol of growing intolerance for those in government and in law who have abused their power and authority, and abused the rights of every day people. It also serves as encouragement to attorneys who represent these victims and who have found themselves the prey of this abuse. Written in a colorful and vivid voyeur perspective, The Underground Lawyer chronicles actual case histories, courtroom activities, and some of Minn's history-changing appellate decisions where rulings have been overturned. Over the past 25 years, Minns has built a reputation as a fearless legal advocate and crusader for the little guy, and has represented hundreds of clients, from all over the United States, who have been wrongly accused by the IRS, law enforcement officers, government officials and even attorneys who took advantage, misrepresented or abused the rights of their clients. Since its initial release, law students across the country have used Minn's colorful book as an insider's guide that no one is beyond our system of justice - that despite power and authority - if someone has abused another's civil rights, taken advantage of their ignorance, or gone beyond the parameters of their authority, they may end up as the subject of a litigation or even criminal charges. Minns also clearly establishes the ground rules for overturning court decisions on appeal. Many of Minn's appellate decisions have become case law used again and again in similar legal actions. The case studies outlined in this book should make you angry, and determined to change a system that has made us a much poorer country, and wrecked such havoc on the lives and liberties of so many good Americans. --Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman and recent Presidential Candidate The Underground Lawyer... is the best legal training currently available short of law school...The author's sportsmanlike standards carry over to the book....One of the most respected legal minds, and perhaps one of the few honest lawyers in the nation...Easily read and understood. --Paul DesFosses, CPA, former IRS agent, former President of the IRS Whistleblowers of America, former congressional witness on taxpayer's Bill of Rights, and author of IRS: Agency out of Control & Self Employed: IRS Target When you box, you wear a metal cup to protect yourself from low blows. This book will be your metal cup to protect you against legal low blows. --ME Brown, Associate Chief, Arson Department, Houston, Texas and former middleweight boxing champion of Texas The Underground Lawyer... is the best legal training currently available short of law school...The author's sportsmanlike standards carry over to the book....One of the most respected legal minds, and perhaps one of the few honest lawyers in the nation...Easily read and understood. --Paul DesFosses, CPA, former IRS agent, former President of the IRS Whistleblowers of America, former congressional witness on taxpayer's Bill of Rights, and author of IRS: Agency out of Control & Self Employed: IRS Target When you box, you wear a metal cup to protect yourself from low blows. This book will be your metal cup to protect you against legal low blows. --ME Brown, Associate Chief, Arson Department, Houston, Texas and former middleweight boxing champion of Texas The Underground Lawyer... is the best legal training currently available short of law school...The author's sportsmanlike standards carry over to the book....One of the most respected legal minds, and perhaps one of the few honest lawyers in the nation...Easily read and understood. --Paul DesFosses, CPA, former IRS agent, former President of the IRS Whistleblowers of America, former congressional witness on taxpayer's Bill of Rights, and author of IRS: Agency out of Control & Self Employed: IRS Target When you box, you wear a metal cup to protect yourself from low blows. This book will be your metal cup to protect you against legal low blows. --ME Brown, Associate Chief, Arson Department, Houston, Texas and former middleweight boxing champion of Texas Michael Minns is a successful Houston, Texas lawyer, who has built a reputation for representing the underdog. Many of the cases Minns accepts have no pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow, but his soft-spot for the downtrodden, and 'doing the right thing' have earned him a special place in the legal history books. Michael Minns was a former single parent and high school English teacher when he decided to attain his law degree. In 1977, within one week of passing the bar, after graduating from the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas, he represented his first client in court. Today, there are very few attorneys who hold licenses in as many courts and states as Minns, licensed in more than 30 jurisdictions, he has become recognized as one of the most traveled and prominent trial and criminal tax appellate lawyers in the country. For the past 24 years, Minns has represented clients fro