1456 ABA Journal Law in Popular Culture articles.
The blogger who writes the legal gossip blog Above the Law suggests that privacy is the refuge of scoundrels—and a convenient way to hide bad eating…
May 27, 2008 12:16 PM CDT
Academics from around the world are converging on Fordham University for a symposium on The Sopranos that begins tomorrow.
Among those who will be speaking about the popular television show…
May 21, 2008 11:35 PM CDT
Students at Northwestern University School of Law protested when they heard that television reality show host and NU law grad Jerry Springer was to be their commencement speaker.
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A new National Museum of Crime & Punishment is set to open this week in Washington, D.C., and according to the Washington Post,…
May 20, 2008 8:09 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court is often the target of criticism. In one of the more recent high-profile critiques the missives were delivered by a fictional lawyer, Alan Shore of Boston…
May 6, 2008 12:50 PM CDT
A litigation partner at Ropes & Gray is admitting she was a member of the winning card-counting blackjack team that is portrayed in the movie 21.
Jane…
May 1, 2008 1:39 PM CDT Russell Pearce has two photos on his office wall. One is Louis Brandeis. The other, Jimi Hendrix. May 1, 2008 1:04 PM CDT ABA Publishing finds that legal best-sellers no longer need ‘how to’ in their titles May 1, 2008 1:03 PM CDT A mother-daughter sketch artist team works the New York courts on a freelance basis for several news organizations, covering the trials of high-profile defendants. Andrea Shepard and her mother, Shirley…
Apr 29, 2008 12:39 PM CDT A hard childhood and a fascination with crime as an adult helped make Patricia Cornwell one of the world’s best-known authors of forensic murder mysteries—a genre that she herself established. Apr 28, 2008 5:15 PM CDT Actor Laurence Fishburne says he knew little about Justice Thurgood Marshall’s early career as a civil rights lawyer before he read the script for the play Thurgood. “My only real…
Apr 28, 2008 2:10 PM CDT Forget about watching cops place the cuffs on badly behaved adults after breaking up fights and catching them with illegal narcotics. The truly compelling law enforcement reality program may be…
Apr 24, 2008 9:37 PM CDT If the public isn’t getting enough access and appreciation for how the U.S. Supreme Court operates from the justices themselves, they may…
Apr 24, 2008 12:30 PM CDT Thousands of CEOs have received spyware e-mails bearing the name of O’Melveny & Myers. The e-mails contain attachments purporting to be grand jury subpoenas and are sent from a uscourts.com…
Apr 15, 2008 11:23 AM CDT More than 30 years after movie director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl and then fled the U.S. when an initial plea bargain…
Apr 14, 2008 5:17 PM CDTThe J.D.-Hendrix Experience
Printing a New Chapter
‘Eccentric’ Mother-Daughter Courtroom Artists Meld Talents
Meet Patricia Cornwell, Forensic Author Who Earned $100 Million
Laurence Fishburne Portrays Thurgood Marshall
‘Bad Dads’: New Fox Reality TV Program Collects Child Support
James Spader Argues Before ABC’s ‘Supreme Court’
Beware of E-Mail Bearing O’Melveny Name
Roman Polanski Documentary Puts New Spin on Child Sex Crime
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