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16 Jan 2007, 1:12 pm
., Jan. 16, 2007), which begins like the set-up for a John Grisham novel:KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge: Like a contentious corporate merger or a sizable family inheritance, a large contingency fee in a successful lawsuit sometimes leads to nasty controversy over who gets what. [read post]
28 May 2013, 8:55 am by Jeanine Cali
John Grisham won the inaugural prize for his book, The Confession, and Michael Connelly was awarded the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for The Fifth Witness. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 3:45 pm
Originally written by John Grisham in 1996, The Rainmaker tells the story about a young lawyer who represents a poor family in an insurance bad faith claim and receives millions after an insurance company wrongfully denied their claim. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 12:47 pm
As interesting as the latest John Grisham novel, and set in the same locale, the WSJ has a front-page story ($$$) today that continues on to a full inside page, about an upcoming trial. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
Sounds like a good plot for a John Grisham book. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 8:20 am
Author John Grisham underscored that in his real-life story of Ron Williamson, the innocent death-row inmate who was cleared by DNA evidence on federal appeal. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 11:48 am by Kent Scheidegger
  As noted in the previous post, John Grisham conveniently overlooks the body count in claiming that other similar cases did not result in death sentences. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 7:29 am
The inspiration for John Grisham's "King of Torts" book and famous Alabama trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs was indicted for allegedly bribing a judge with a $50,000 payoff. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 6:57 pm
  In October 2007, the Center sponsored another thought-provoking event concerning the death penalty, this one featuring two best-selling authors -- John Grisham and Scott Turow -- who discussed their personal journeys leading to death penalty opposition. [read post]
7 Sep 2008, 7:57 pm
Gerst (Amacom publishing 4/1/2008) reads like an alterrnative book jacket description for the John Grisham novel "The Rainmaker", or a review for the 1995 film of the same name: "We all dutifully write out checks for insurance coverage each month, assuming that if the worst should occur, we'll be protected financially. [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 5:20 pm
  As law students who thought their careers would play out like a television sitcom or even a John Grisham novel quickly realize, law in the world of fiction and law in the real world bear little relation to one another. [read post]
4 Feb 2012, 8:00 am by Stephen Fairley
 It’s a new series on NBC based on the John Grisham best-seller, and continues the story of personal injury lawyer Mitch McDeere after he “escapes” from the big, bad law firm in the original movie and opens his own practice. [read post]
20 May 2021, 4:00 am by Cordell Parvin
I spend my time writing fiction while realizing I will never be John Grisham. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 6:29 pm by Matt Johnston
In the pivotal trial scene in the movie A Time to Kill (and the John Grisham novel of the same name) lawyer Jake Brigance, played by Matthew McConaughey, describes the tragic scene of the rape and assault of a little black girl and at the end of the retelling, asks the jury to imagine that the girl is white, evoking the not the racial prejudice of the southern town in which the story was set, but the passionate disgust that a rape of a child engenders. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 8:56 am by Barb Jones
In a Mississippi race that shows where John Grisham gets his ideas, three justices running for second, eight-year terms lost: Chief Justice Jim Smith lost to Jim Kitchens, Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. lost to Randy “Bubba” Pierce, and Justice Chuck Easley lost to David Chandler. [read post]