Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back, In America’s Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial, See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation, Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life, and Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement, all published by The New Press. He has written for The Nation, the New York Times, and Harper’s. He lives in Chicago.