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Battle for Life

Sam Silver is a sixty-year-old lawyer balancing work and his family after having moved back to his hometown to care for his ailing parents. Now, his ninety-year-old father Max has asked Sam to accompany him to Washington, D.C. for a reunion of his crewmates from the Navy ship he sailed with during World War II.  Managing the stress of life, Sam embarks on a final road trip with his father, exploring along the way not only his father’s lessons about handling adversity and heartache but exposing some long-kept secrets about his experience in the war. 

2023

Media / Press

Speaker: Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

Marcus Jewish Community Center 11/05/2023

Rough Draft Atlanta, 3/31/2023

Atlanta Jewish Times, 2/15/2023

About Scott Zucker

Scott Zucker is an attorney, writer, teacher, speaker, mediator and arbitrator. Personally, he is a husband, father, board member, community leader and dog-lover. Scott lives in Atlanta, Georgia and, in his spare time writes fiction novels, inspired by other lawyers-turned-novelists like John Grisham and Scott Turow. 

Scott is a founding partner of the Atlanta law firm Weissmann Zucker Euster + Katz P.C. and has been practicing law since 1987. His law practice focuses on real estate, employment and construction matters. He is also a certified Mediator and Arbitrator and assists parties in resolving matters through Alternative Dispute Resolution. Scott is a frequent lecturer at national and state real estate and construction trade conventions and is a contributing legal writer for trade industry magazines.

Scott is actively involved in the community and has sat on the advisory boards for Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute as well as the Rollins School of Public Health. He is a past president of Temple Sinai in Atlanta and is currently the co-chair of the Civil Rights Committee for the Southeast Division of the Anti-Defamation League.

Scott is a fervent writer and educator on the topic of “Ethical Wills” and is a passionate advocate of the importance of legacy writing. Scott presented a TEDx talk on Ethical Wills in 2019 which is available on YouTube.

Scott obtained his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Scott and his wife Melanie have two grown sons, a new daughter-in-law and two labradoodles, Fenway and Astro.

Chain of Custody

Matt Taggart is a hardworking young associate attorney at a prestigious Washington, D.C. litigation firm. He is married with a one-year-old daughter. Matts day to day life is unremarkable until his father, a U.S. Senator, is killed in a small plane crash. Was his death a suicide or was he killed?

Rally on Two

Hank Bennett was happily married with a young child until he loses everything in a devastating accident. While trying to cope with the realities of his new life, Hank is also trying to manage an ongoing law practice. While struggling to make it day to day, he is assigned a pro bono criminal case where a young boy is fighting to prove his innocence.

Battle for Life

Sam Silver is a sixty-year-old lawyer balancing work and his family after having moved back to his hometown to care for his ailing parents. Now, his ninety-year-old father Max has asked Sam to accompany him to Washington, D.C. for a reunion of his crewmates from the Navy ship he sailed with during World War II.