Law in Popular Culture

George Clooney at Dewey Ballantine

The new George Clooney film Michael Clayton—set in the world of big Manhattan law firms—was filmed in part in the New York offices of Dewey Ballantine. Clooney plays a lawyer who has been with the corporate megafirm Kenner, Bach & Ledeen for 15 years, but never made partner. He serves…

Oct 4, 2007 10:45 AM CDT

Lawyers Lex

Now that summer’s really over—and so is Harry Potter—it’s time to move away from that top 10 list of best-sellers and curl up with these equally engaging titles. And because every author’s also a J.D., each book is brimming with insider elements only a lawyer could love:

Oct 1, 2007 8:41 PM CDT

Money-Making Game: ‘Second Life’ First?

A Canadian law firm claims to be the first to establish an office on Second Life, a 3D virtual community that has attracted millions of participants from all over the world. Davis LLP is staffing its Second Life office with lawyers from the firm’s Video Game law & Interactive Entertainment…

Sep 25, 2007 10:10 PM CDT

Ex-Prostitute Leaves Law to Write Movie Script

Lawyer Cupcake Brown, once a prostitute and a drug user, is leaving Bingham McCutchen to write the movie script for her best-selling memoir A Piece of Cake. A four-day crack binge nearly killed Brown, who turned her life around and graduated from law school in 2001, the Recorder reports in…

Sep 25, 2007 1:42 PM CDT

Thrillers Pave Unlikely Path to Success

For most attorneys, planning to write a best-seller and have at least the option of retiring from law practice is about as realistic as high school players’ dreams of NBA or NFL stardom. But a fortunate few actually do achieve such goals, and among the elite cadre of lawyers whose…

Sep 18, 2007 3:24 PM CDT

Law Firm Gets TV Show Mentions

A Massachusetts plaintiffs law firm that started running personal injury commercials as early as the 1970s has found a new way to promote itself: product placements on TV shows. The goal is to establish the Law Offices of James Sokolove as a national consumer law firm, Jim Sokolove told the…

Sep 17, 2007 12:35 PM CDT

Potential Profit for ‘Second Life’ Lawyers

Second Life is a fantasy cyberworld where people are represented by “avatars” with unusual names. Lawyers who join the online community can write constitutions, establish court systems and debate legal issues. But the virtual world also holds some profit potential. Washington, D.C., lawyer Stevan Lieberman is learning that lesson, Legal…

Jul 31, 2007 7:01 PM CDT

Fantasy Life, Real Law

Travel into Second Life––the virtual world where lawyers are having fun, exploring legal theory and even generating new business

Mar 18, 2007 10:21 AM CDT