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Oct 05, 2016
The Real Housewives and the Bottomless Cesspit that is American Pop Culture

With apologies to Georgia O’Keefe. As the Bard once said, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Lucky for William Shakespeare, he died centuries before the debut of reality show/unmistakable sign of the impending Apocalypse, The Real Housewives. Yes, the Real Housewives franchise is, in general, an assault

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Oct 04, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: Denial

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. Usually, searching for The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time means sitting down on the couch, finding a movie on iTunes, and restarting my router a few times until the thing loads. This week, however, I had occasion to actually get out of the house and take a trip

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Sep 30, 2016
Kim Kardashian, Esq.?

Yes, Kim, we can’t believe it either. Just in case you’ve been living, like, under a rock: Kim Kardashian is headed to law school. Well, not quite yet: the media personality plans to wait a bit until “things slow down.” Understandable for a mother of young children with a megalomaniacal genius for a husband and

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Sep 22, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: My Cousin Vinny

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 church, is not a place where you’re supposed to laugh. Or maybe the reason filmmakers

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Sep 03, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: A Time to Kill

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, white, Confederate flag-waving hicks, the kind only found in neglected rural backwaters and Hollywood genre

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Aug 26, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: “A Civil Action”

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 Civil Action 1998 dir. Steve Zaillian You may have seen “A Civil Action” at some

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Aug 11, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: “Anatomy of a Murder”

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 LSAT slog. But which lawyer movies are the best? That’s what I’m trying to find

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Jul 26, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: The Lincoln Lawyer

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 that didn’t make the list but that is nonetheless a popular recent entry to the

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