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... "a nod to thriller convention," but in my view they're critical to the film's central claim: Lawyers like Swinton's character---and like George Clooney's Michael Clayton himself---already trade in the murder of innocents: to wit, the ... be clear that the firm and the client are legally obligated to disclose the document to the plaintiffs. In a climactic confrontation, Swinton's character mumbles something about attorney-client privilege but the document at issue does not appear to ...

... we caught up with Cooley Godward Kronish's Michael Rhodes on the effect the Southern California fires had on his office. Today, we're focusing on Stephen Swinton, a patent litigator at Latham & Watkins in San Diego, who had a slightly different perspective on the situation. ... , only to find out hours later that their house had been destroyed. We checked in with Swinton earlier today, who was packing up a bundle of new dress clothes before heading to Phoenix to prepare ...

... . Meanwhile, U/North's general counsel, Karen Crowder, the movie's other neurotic lawyer, played by Tilda Swinton, is forced to take dramatic steps to ensure that her company steers clear of trouble. In an interview in the movie ... them, creating a culture in which personal or familial obligations always take second place to work . . . . Whatever the explanation, Michael Clayton offers an only slightly exaggerated portrait of a profession undergoing a kind of slow-motion existential crisis. It does ...

... the halls of your vaunted firms, we don't. That's why we can barely contain our excitement over "Michael Clayton." Set for release on Oct. 5, the movie stars - be still our beating hearts - George Clooney in the title role as ... a global corporate executive. Written and first-time directed by Bourne trilogy screenwriter Tony Gilroy, the film co-stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson and Sydney Pollak, who all play corporate lawyers. The movie, which premiered Friday night at the Toronto International ...

... in the form or fancy dinner plans next week (before the joy of the TC visit, the real event of the season). Anyway, the review of Michael Clayton: A really good movie! I am a big fan of The Clooney, who deserves to have a definite article before his surname to indicate that ... it is when Right is Done and The Good Guys Win in such movies, since I'm a cynical lawyer. -How Tilda Swinton's marvelous acting can't make me forgive the director for making the role of Weak, Trembling, Unprincipled Evil a ...

Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Alan has challenged me to address his speculations. I didn't want to see Michael Clayton, even though I heard it was good. I have never seen Erin Brockovitch or A Civil Action. Yes, it's true that...

... good in many ways. It captures some of the feel of law practice at a big firm, and it features excellent performances by Tom Wilkinson as a bipolar attorney, Tilda Swinton as an evil (and perhaps slightly incompetent) in-house lawyer, Sydney Pollack as a corner office partner (my favorite character in the film), and Michael O'Keefe as a jerk of a junior partner (my second favorite character in the film). ...

... gallery! Most bizarre thanks speech "I have an agent who is the spitting image of this," said Best Supporting Actress winner Tilda Swinton (right) of her Oscar, as an entire audience's brow furrowed in confusion, "the same shaped head, and the buttocks". We're ... s human equivalent of a wind-up toy went into overdrive when she saw George Clooney. Quipping that films such as Michael ­Clayton are vital for strengthening Clooney's "back end", the Clooney reply ("You stay out of my back end!") prompted ...