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24 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Prior to her death, Lee published her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, which horrified readers of her original classic by portraying the heroic Atticus Finch as at least complicit in white supremacist and anti-integrationist activity (in the name of so-called states’ rights).Setting aside the controversies over whether the aging Lee truly wanted the book to be published and the question of whether it was a first draft or a sequel to Mockingbird, no one… [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:01 am by Goldberg Jones
Atticus Finch—To Kill a Mockingbird Author Harper Lee reportedly based Atticus Finch, the lead character in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, on her own father. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:01 am by Goldberg Jones
Atticus Finch—To Kill a Mockingbird Author Harper Lee reportedly based Atticus Finch, the lead character in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, on her own father. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 9:01 am by Goldberg Jones
Atticus Finch—To Kill a Mockingbird Author Harper Lee reportedly based Atticus Finch, the lead character in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, on her own father. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 1:00 pm by Jeff Gamso
  But as I've gone back and read the comments (and the posts by Brown and Kindley and Atticus), I started to write my own comment. [read post]
17 Sep 2011, 11:29 am
We may also refer to the fictional American lawyer Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's famous novel `To Kill a Mocking Bird'. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 9:43 am
In her negotiations with the US attorney, played by Tommy Lee Jones, Love, played by Susan Sarandon, asks to put Sway and his mother in Witness Protection, "with a fair income, and a nice little house. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 4:41 am by SHG
But if he not only felt empathy, but used his friggin’ brain, he might instead have saved Kizzie from his bloodthirsty mob by standing before the jail like Atticus Finch (before he was reinvented to undermine the very point of Harper Lee’s classic) by explaining that Kizzie should not be demonized by his woke students today for what happened almost 40 years ago. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 2:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
"To Kill a Mockingbird" famously stars Atticus Finch, a white lawyer who defends a Black man accused of raping a white woman. [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 4:00 am by Adam Dodek
Harper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdA timeless classic of racism, injustice and the perversion of law, countered by the paradigmatic ethical virtue of Atticus Finch and the values he teaches his children and has taught generations of lawyers. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 9:13 am by Rich Cassidy
The idealism of Atticus Finch set the hook for me. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 9:47 am by tjsllibrary
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee While it is common knowledge that lawyers are considered by some to be selfish, cagey and of questionable integrity, this novel contrasts this image with one of a lawyer, Atticus Finch, whose integrity is unwavering. [read post]
19 May 2011, 6:50 am
 Harper Lee uses Atticus’ country charm and dry wit to tell this powerful story in a meaningful way. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
However, I proposed a very important caveat: for her “the rhetoric of bigotry is sometimes necessary and appropriate”; for me, it can never be appropriate, since, as she acknowledged: “[T]here are more constructive ways to talk about prejudice, intolerance and discrimination” Instead—also following McClain—I urged that we should adopt a “hate the sin, not the sinner” approach and “never stop the conversation”, but keep it going no matter… [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 4:02 am by Schwartzapfel Lawyers P.C.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Anatomy of a Murder is one of the all-time greats, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 4:30 am by Frances Zacher
AU: Were there any models at other law schools that you looked to when Washington & Lee was designing its own program? [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 12:32 pm by Little Richard
Specifically, he writes about three aspects of law practice that receive little, if any, attention in law school.One of his points in particular struck a chord with me — and, given its importance to making money as a small firm lawyer, it deserves some coverage here…MacDonald speculates as follows:If Harper Lee had written a few scenes in which Atticus Finch had to schmooze at a local business lunch and make a PowerPoint presentation to show why he was, in fact, the… [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 12:56 pm
It is also invaluable to counsel who heed the lesson that Atticus Finch drilled into his daughter Scout: "Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 2:00 pm by Steve McConnell
While Atticus Finch is fictional, he was based on Harper Lee's real-life lawyer dad. [read post]