25 Greatest Legal Movies
If you're looking for a good movie to rent this summer, check out this list of the "25 Greatest Legal Movies" from the August 2008 issue of the ABA Journal. It includes classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird", "My Cousin Vinny", and "Judgment at Nuremberg." The accompanying article makes the valuable point that trial attorneys often face jurors whose perceptions of the legal system have been influenced, in one way or another, by popular culture. Whether based on fact or fiction, these perceptions matter. And the very best legal films, even if they do turn on untenable plot points, offer valuable lessons for litigators. Who couldn't learn a thing or two about style from watching Gregory Peck in "Mockingbird" or Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny"? Not that anyone should ape Peck's gravitas or Pesci's Brooklyn grit, but the marriage of good storytelling and engaging rhetoric that one finds in such classics is a quality worth striving for.
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