Bluff City Law, the new NBC legal drama starring Jimmy Smits (L. A. Law.) as attorney Elijah Strait and Caitlin McGee as his daughter Sydney, premieres on Monday, September 23. What’s the show about?...
From The Hollywood Reporter, an interview with Aaron Paul and Vince Gilligan about the new “Breaking Bad” movie.
Via Open Culture: Listen to 298 episodes of the classic radio series Dragnet.
From the New York Review of Books, an essay by Michael Chabon on the litigation surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The essay in slightly altered form also appears in the forthcoming collection Fight...
The National Jurist rounds up 10 Inspiring Movies that suggest the kinds of legal careers law students can follow to do good in the world. These films include When They See Us, RBG, and Saint Judy.
Lena Wilson examines home invasion movies in I Know Where You Lived Last Summer in this article for The New York Times. She says in part, The writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest nightmare is part...
Sharon Bala has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her first Novel The Boat People (Random House/Anchor, 2018). Before her death, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set...
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...
ICYMI: Michael Asimow and Ticien Marie Sassoubre, both of the Stanford Law School, have published Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education, at 68 Journal of Legal Education...
DId The Simpsons predict Donald Trump’s rise to the Presidency? As it turns out, yes. In an episode called “Bart to the Future,” a “vision of the future” episode first aired March 19, 2000, the show...