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Dec 21, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: Um… Miracle on 34th Street?

This dude is just as surprised as you are that he made the ABA Top 25 Lawyer Movies. This week, with ambient Christmas music having burrowed its way deep into my subconscious, I decided to watch a Christmas classic, #25 on the ABA’s list of the 25 best legal movies… Miracle on 34th Street 1947

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Dec 10, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: Philadelphia

For some reason, this week I decided to watch #8 on the ABA’s Top 25, a movie that may be the most gut-wrenching on the list… Philadelphia 1993 dir. Jonathan Demme Lawyer movies, like the courts themselves, are often forums for showcasing the pressing moral issues of the day. Want to make a thriller about

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Dec 01, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: In the Name of the Father

Ow. This week, to cheer up from my post-election blues, I decided to watch #21 on the ABA Top 25 list of great lawyer movies, a film about an innocent man and his father on trial for a pair of IRA bombings. What can I say? There aren’t that many lawyer comedies. In the Name

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Nov 15, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: Judgment at Nuremberg

For this week’s edition of The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time, I decided to watch #12 on the ABA’s Top 25… Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 dir. Stanley Kramer In normal times, it’s considered an affront to rhetorical decency to compare people you disagree with to the Nazis. Hitler and his regime were so evil

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Nov 02, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: Presumed Innocent

Yes, Harrison Ford. We get it. You’re brooding and alone. For this week’s edition of The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time, I decided to check out #11 on the ABA’s Top 25… Presumed Innocent 1990 dir. Alan J. Pakuta “Presumed Innocent,” starring Harrison Ford, is about a lawyer accused of a killing a coworker

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Oct 14, 2016
The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time: The Verdict

Paul Newman as lawyer and struggling alcoholic Frank Galvin. This week, in my ongoing search for the Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time, I decided to re-watch #10 on the ABA’s Top 25… The Verdict 1982 dir. Sidney Lumet Some movie lawyers are noble. Some are cruel, or cold, or just in it for the

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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 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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