All We Hide – Real Life Lessons from a Legal Thriller
Date: Dec 10, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $159.00
Non-Member Price: $199.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
Earn up to 3.3 credits! (More Information)
Featured Speaker
- Robyn B. Gigl, Esq.
- Author of the Erin McCabe Series
Dilworth Paxson LLP, Freehold
Moderator
- Lawrence S. Lustberg, Esq.
- Co-Chair, White Collar & Investigations Group
FBT Gibbons, Newark
Presenters
- Wanda M. Akin, Esq.
- Wanda M. Akin & Associates, Newark
- Yolanda Ciccone
- Metuchen
- Brian J. Neary, Esq.
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Connell Foley LLP, Roseland
“A good legal procedural asks who committed the crime. A better one asks who benefited from hiding the truth. All We Hide asks both questions and delivers satisfying answers.” – Quote from a recent review.
Join NJSBA member and award-winning author Robyn Gigl and friends for a seminar based on Robyn’s latest thriller, “All We Hide.”
First, hear directly from the author herself as Robyn is interviewed by Lawrence S. Lustberg, Co-Chair of the FBT Gibbons White Collar and Investigations Group and longtime Director of the firm’s John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law. They will delve into the plot of the book, the characters’ backgrounds and shed light on how Robyn developed the ideas for this gripping story.
Then, they will join other esteemed criminal practitioners for a discussion about the many legal issues that make this a “must read” for lawyers and a “can’t miss” seminar for CLE.
About the book: Detective Lauren Kelly hardly receives a hero’s welcome when she decides to open a 20 year old cold case looking into the murder of Sherry Darling, a trans sex worker and Lauren’s former high school classmate.
Lauren has been exiled to the county’s Cold Case Unit. Officially it’s a promotion. Unofficially it feels like a convenient place to park the county’s only openly transgender detective while avoiding accusations of discrimination. Lauren chooses to reopen the investigation despite repeated warnings that the case should stay closed.
What follows is both a whodunit and an investigation into how institutions protect themselves.
Lauren isn’t a rogue detective charging off. She is mindful of probable cause, jurisdictional tripwires, and gathering evidence that will stand up in what is, at this point, a very theoretical future trial. She has to navigate office politics, a shared computer system, skeptical supervisors, competing agencies, reluctant witnesses, and the uncomfortable possibility that corruption extends farther than anyone wants to admit.
The legal issues in the book are real: Brady violations, attorney-client privilege and communication, and a chain of evidence examination that is central to the story, to name a few.
The legal mysteries are woven in with Lauren’s personal struggles: her relationship with an ex-wife she still loves, a teenage daughter trying to navigate her parent’s transition, her own father disappearing into Alzheimer’s, and a tentative new romance. She is a detective, a parent, a daughter, and a complicated human being trying to solve a cold case while figuring out her own work-in-progress life.
Robyn will stay for a “meet and greet” and book signing after the program.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity!
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