Have you read the book Civil Action.? My very favorite legal book fiction or nonfiction. Of course Prosser on Torts will always be one of the best ever.
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Have you read the book Civil Action.? My very favorite legal book fiction or nonfiction. Of course Prosser on Torts will always be one of the best ever.
We actually read it in civ pro at IU. loved it. My old civ pro prof is the provost now. Strange.
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I think Nicole Kidman is a helluva an actress. She pulled off Grace really well.
Watched Just Getting Started last night with Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman. Your basic Hallmark Christmas story with a little guns, sex, and bad guys.
Really liked that book also. Kidman was amazing in Undoing and I don’t know if it was lighting or what, but she looked absolutely gorgeous in every single shot. The kid did a good job too. I wish Donald Sutherland had a little more to do.
I’m not quite to Hallmark yet, but I may get there. The plot to every single one of those is the same.
she doesn't age. donald sutherland needs an eye brow trim desperately. hard to look at
name dropping coh i've had lunch with tommy lee a few times. my old boss represented him on some stuff and they played on the same polo team
Then there's Lifetime. We used to call it the All Men Are Assholes channel.
That would be a a pretty good book for civ pro. Learning the tactics of procedure is vital and not well understood.
Yep. it’s everything. we had a neat torts prof at iu named dworkin. he'd often end the class by saying "ah none of this matters. procedure is everything"
I grew up with a kid named Tom Jones. Must be a different guy. He doesn’t play polo.
lol. tommy lee jones owned land and fields in wellington fla. he and my boss played on the same team as the founder of outback who sponsored the team. i was right out of law school and the firm's bitch for all these obscenely wealthy people
Recently watched Kelly’s Heroes. That movie is 50 years old. It caught all the stars at their stereotypical best.
Yup it reminded me of Bob Knight during a game when I desperately wanted to go down and groom him.
I feel like this thread should move me up in the standings. As you notice, I started it a long time ago and it’s pretty popular.
My torts prof threw an eraser hard off the back wall. Of course people near the impact jumped and said WTF? He used that to begin the discussion on zone of danger and proximate cause.
lol. who knew. the founder of outback, tim gannon, was so fat he couldn't tie his own boots so he'd have the argentines (the guys who could actually play) tie them for him. the busch's had a team. they'd all go to the bars after the matches and billy would ask to see the owner of the bar and hand him a check for ten grand and say "we're gonna get pretty shitty here tonight." another world.
Was his name Randy Dworkin?
I love Jack McCoy the hardass, but Randy Dworkin was a formidable opponent...twice.
I have seen the movie version (of A Civil Action, not Prosser on Torts, because I sometimes feel I need to be clear with you). Have you seen it, and what did you think?
Lol never seen that show. My favorite courtroom scene by a long shot was this fantastic few minutes where the viewer has the vantage point of the judge watching jimmy from better call Saul blow through about ten defendants while pacing and gesturing his way through crazy arguments. It’s fantasticWas his name Randy Dworkin?
I love Jack McCoy the hardass, but Randy Dworkin was a formidable opponent...twice.
RogerWas his name Randy Dworkin?
I love Jack McCoy the hardass, but Randy Dworkin was a formidable opponent...twice.
Never saw that. A Few Good Men is #1 courtroom scene for me. I also liked Jimmy Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder, but it’s been years since I’ve seen it.
I have the DVD and watch it occasionally. The movie is a good attempt at the book, but Like most movies, it can’t film the entire book. I liked the book mostly because the emotional part of trial work for the client and the attorney really came through. The movie just didn’t capture the significant tension that accompanies every decision a lawyer must make in a case like that.
Spencer Tracy examining Fredric March in Inherit the Wind.
A movie I mentioned here before and one of my favorites is A Man For All Seasons. While not strictly a courtroom drama, it does provoke a discussion about the role of law in society. It was released while I was in law school and we spent more than a little time talking about it in the student lounge. Even the faculty would join in.
I have never like Sutherland. Even disliked him in a play I saw years ago. Not sure what it is - might be his voice and manner of speaking.
Speaking of lawyer movies, I thought he played the drunk liberal pretty well in A Time to Kill.
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