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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…