Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who’d Stop at Nothing to Win Audiobook (Free)

The gripping story of 1 American lawyer’s obsessive crusade-waged at any cost-against Big Oil with respect to the indegent farmers and indigenous tribes from the Amazon rainforest.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to be the third-largest corporation in America). The fit searched for reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives about Legislation from the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Fight Over Oil in the torrential rain Forest and the Lawyer Who’d Visit Nothing to Gain were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During two decades of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s attorneys followed fierce no-holds-barred guidelines. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, demonstrated himself a get better at orchestrator from the media, Hollywood, and general public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any method of persuasion. And in the end, he won an unlikely triumph, a $19 billion common sense against Chevon–the biggest environmental damages award ever sold. But the business refused to surrender or bargain. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger individually, and its counter-attack revealed damning proof his politicking and manipulation of proof. Instantly the verdict, and years of Donziger’s single-minded quest for the case, began to unravel.

Written with the consistency and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Legislation from the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a huge area of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes.