Gladiator-at-Law by Frederik Pohl, C.M. Kornbluth

Caution! You are about to enter a world…
…where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death.

…where the stock market operated with pari-mutuel machines.

…where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine.

…where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle.

In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interest–battles them in board meetings and in dark alley–in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises about the future…promises we are beginning to make right now.