A Sense of Urgency: One Lawyer's Journey to Fix Companies and Institutions That Injure and Kill

When Windle Turley founded the Turley Law Firm in 1973, he was driven by a single calling: to stand up for victims, or those left to carry on their memory, rendered powerless in the immense shadows of institutions that injure and kill. Driven lifelong by what he names his sense of urgency, Turley's ceaseless determination would one day take him beyond Dallas and all the way to the Supreme Court.

In this memoir of real-life Davids and Goliaths, Windle Turley tells stories of taking on titans from the airlines and firearms industry to the Catholic Church itself. One after another, he lays out a road to legal victories that would not only draw widespread attention to the dangerous failings of public institutions but help to establish protections still servings citizens today.

Interwoven with memories of a hard-scrap Oklahoma childhood and later-life adventures, A Sense of Urgency is by turns lyrical and unflinching, revealing tale by tale how guts must be built well before we fight our greatest battles, and what it means to take risks when all you have is a belief in what is right-and faith that justice must, in the end, prevail for the voiceless.