Public Interest
Mar. 20, 2002
Lawyer Movies Portray Same Old Story Lines
Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Many lawyers, myself included, love movies about lawyers. Unfortunately, however, most law movies seem to play out the same old tired clichs. It's either the same old Perry Masonesque, last-minute-witness-stand-"I-did-it" movie or the this-is-really-an-action/thriller-film-involving-a-lawyer-in-over-his-head-but-disguised-as-a-law-movie movie.
By Donald E. Griffith
Many lawyers, myself included, love movies about lawyers. Unfortunately, however, most law movies seem to play out the same old tired clichés. It's either the same old Perry Masonesque, last-minute-witness-sta...
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