This year’s 11 ABA Journal Legal Rebels innovators are building roads to justice, efficiency, technology and knowledge.

A class action suit against the Pop Warner youth football league on safety concerns stands to be the first lawsuit to go to trial.

Hollywood, for instance, has always had a crush on crusading lawyers. But tropes that once dominated legal dramas have given way to an entirely new twist on the genre. Cinema has developed a newfound cynicism about the once-righteous trial attorney. Nowadays, perhaps consistent with our diminished faith in public institutions, the legal system and its practitioners, as depicted in movies, have been found wanting and guilty

Our panel had its work cut out to name the 25 greatest legal movies. But why stop there? Here are 25 more screenworthy choices.

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, will be awarded the American Bar Association’s highest honor, the ABA Medal, given to lawyers who have “rendered conspicuous service to the cause of American jurisprudence.”

What keeps you going in the toughest times?

“I’ve had the great privilege of representing people whose lives and value and humanity are so clear to me that I’m very motivated. Winning their freedom is enormously energizing.”

A panel of law practitioners recommends their favorite legal-themed films, including those released in the decade since our last top-25 list. The judges voted for many of the classics from our 2008 list, along with some newer films we hope will get you thinking about the reach of the law in new ways.

While spoken words are protected by the First Amendment, offensive expressions can fall into the category of true threats, a type of unprotected speech.

Probate judges in at least seven Alabama counties refuse to issue marriage licenses to any couples, same-sex or heterosexual, so lawmakers may abolish licenses altogether. Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Montana have similar proposals.