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.
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.
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…
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…
Nothing celebrates the sweeter side of law quite like a Gavel Pop. These quirky candies were conceived by Dave Giles, a Utah gavel carver who owns the Gavel Store, an…
An editorial writer at the Wall Street Journal is taking legal thriller writer John Grisham to task for supporting merit selection of judges over judicial elections.
An unusual libel case filed by a New York lawyer over a fictional portrayal in a television show of an attorney he says is recognizable as himself has surmounted its…