Looking over the ABA’s Top 25 Legal Movies, you notice that there are plenty of procedurals, thrillers, and melodramas, but relatively few comedies. Why is that? Maybe comedy and the law are just an unnatural pairing. A courtroom, like a…
For this week’s installment of The Greatest Lawyer Movies of all time, I watched… A Time to Kill 1996 dir. Joel Schumacher A ten-year-old girl is raped and nearly killed in rural Mississippi. She is black. The rapists are vile,…
Many lawyer movies are good. Some are great. But which are the best? That’s what I want to find out, so I’m working my way through the ABA’s Top 25 in no particular order. This week, I watched #22… A…
LSAT students need a break every once in awhile, and lawyer movies are a great option for passive entertainment. There’s nothing like a good courtroom drama to keep you excited about your future legal career and get you through the…
I’m a man on a mission, watching lawyer movies one at a time to find the GOAT. So far, I’ve been watching films from ABA’s Top 25 in no particular order. But this week, I decided to watch a movie…
So, Nintendo invented a mobile game where players wander around outside with their faces buried in their phones, often in unfamiliar surroundings, and, quite possibly on private property. Hey, what could go wrong? Being in an industry tightly tied in…
There are so many great lawyer movies. Which ones are the best? That’s what I’m trying to find out. This week, I watched #18… Reversal of Fortune 1990 dir. Barbet Schroeder Like many other lawyer movies I’ve seen recently, “Reversal…
This week, I decided to watch #5 on the ABA’s Top 25, “Inherit the Wind.” That’s a pretty high ranking, placing it in the company of classics like “My Cousin Vinny” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Is the movie really…
There are so many great lawyer movies. Which ones are the best? That’s what I’m trying to find out. This week, I watched… Compulsion 1959 dir. Richard Fleischer “Compulsion” is a fictionalization of the 1924 murder of Robert Franks by…
For this week’s edition of The Greatest Lawyer Movie of All Time, I decided to check out the 1973 film “The Paper Chase,” which can currently be streamed on Amazon. Unlike the other movies on our list, this isn’t a…