Thad Long is a versatile attorney, with decades of practice handling difficult trials and other matters for defendants and plaintiffs in a changing litigious environment. His recent novel, The Impossible Mock Orange Trial, has garnered 5-Star ratings from a wide field of readers. In a sequel novel, The Vow: Ted Born’s Last Trial, to be released shortly, Ted Born, attempting to fulfill his commitments to a wealthy philanthropist client, finds himself the defendant in litigation in which the client’s family members seek to take over the philanthropist’s financial affairs and sue Born for resisting their efforts wrongly for personal gain – threatening Born with financial ruin and destruction of his personal and professional reputation in the concluding years of Born’s law practice. It is a thoughtful study of the challenge of protecting older persons from the consequences of their own mental and physical decline. Mr. Long took his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his law degree from the University of Virginia where he served as Comments & Projects Editor of the Virginia Law Review and was tapped for Order of the Coif, the Raven Society and Omicron Delta Kappa. He has consistently been listed in Best Lawyers in America for more than thirty years, recognizing him in an extraordinary nine different areas of expertise, and is an elected Life Member of the prestigious American Law Institute. He has also recently been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.