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Prosecutor’s book offers firsthand look at ‘Making a Murderer’ subject Steven Avery (podcast)

A year before Netflix’s viral hit Making a Murderer was making headlines, Wisconsin prosecutor Michael Griesbach released his book The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and…

Harper Lee Prize winner tells how history and race shaped her Southern gothic novel (podcast)

The Secret of Magic is a book within a book. It is both the title of Deborah Johnson’s 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction-winning novel, and (in the world…

Linda Fairstein chats about her Alex Cooper series—and reveals an exciting new project (podcast)

Fairstein’s own prominent career prosecuting sex crimes for the district attorney’s office in Manhattan has greatly influenced her novels, as has her familiarity with New York City. She uses a…

Grammar nerds, meet your ‘Comma Queen’ (podcast)

Related links:

The New Yorker: “Mary Norris: Comma Queen” (video series)

Slate: “The Corrections: A delightful memoir by a New Yorker copy editor”

New York Times: “‘Between…

Author tells tangled tale of the $19B verdict against Chevron in ‘Law of the Jungle’ (podcast)

All is not as it seems for 9th Circuit clerk in ATL founder’s new novel (podcast)

How a series of attacks by a breakaway Amish sect became a landmark hate-crimes case (podcast)

Boies and Olson reveal the backstory of the case against California’s Proposition 8 (podcast)

Growing up during BTK serial-killing spree informed author’s new crime novel (podcast)

Why should 9/11 terrorism trials be held at ‘Mother Court’ in New York? Author explains (podcast)

How 50 children were saved from Nazi Germany by a Philadelphia lawyer and his wife (podcast)

This 18th-century British judge helped SCOTUS decide the fate of Guantanamo detainees (podcast)

‘Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance’ author shares weird-but-true laws from around the globe (podcast)

What makes lawyers great romance novelists? (gallery and podcast)

Note: We refer to all our interviewees by their pen names.

What martial arts training can do for lawyers (podcast)

What were the best legal novels of 2013? (podcast)

Unconventional childhood helps ‘Free Spirit’ author to advocate for domestic-abuse victims (podcast)

Once the ‘meanest lawyer in Houston,’ author shares story of love for his murdered brother (podcast)

Government surveillance revelations are having a chilling effect on lawyers, says author (podcast)

Rosa Parks’ attorney: ‘If the story would be told, I’d have to tell it’ (podcast)

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