Law in Popular Culture
Lawyers and Wannabes Sharpen Skills with Objection! Video Game
Posted Mar 12, 2009 12:45 PM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A guest blogger for PC World raves about the Objection! video game testing players’ ability to identify objectionable courtroom questions.
The reviewer played the role of a lawyer defending an accused murderer. She noted that players have to raise their objection before the witness answers a prosecutor’s question, with less than a second, usually, to interject.
“Many lawyers have expressed an increased response time and success of sharpening their skills with the game,” the blogger writes for PC World's Community Voices blog. “In fact, a Florida judge even ordered some lawyers to buy the game because they were so inadequate at questioning."

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Janie
Mar 12, 2009 4:16 PM CST
This game has been around since the 90’s. I haven’t seen the latest iteration but if it is anything like the original, it’s so sexist that I wasn’t able to get approval to purchase it for my firm.
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Expected more
Mar 13, 2009 10:38 AM CST
I looked into this after seeing the article… I would believe Janie’s statement that it’s been around since the 90’s. The graphics look like those in the computer games I played in about 1992. (Anyone here remember the Carmen Sandiego games?) The cost is absolutely ridiculous, at about $130.
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