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11 Jan 2008, 7:26 am
If each of those may be compensated under tort law, the total could add up pretty quickly in the case of a innocent person who's been exonerated.At $50,000 per year, Texas may be getting off pretty cheap.RELATED: See this interview with John Grisham on the problem of wrongful convictions. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 1:40 pm
In 1997, in one of his first big roles, Damon played Rudy Baylor (pictured) in “The Rainmaker,” John Grisham’s story of an idealistic young lawyer taking on a powerful law firm and its big, bad insurance-company client. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 6:52 am
Isn't it great having friends like John Grisham? [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 7:39 am
And Grisham thinks these folks are super sophisticated, why?... [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]
4 Dec 2007, 7:22 am
Grisham said yesterday. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 12:22 am
Is it just me, or is it kind of creepy that Scruggs is partying and Scruggs' friends like novelist John Grisham are going around saying Scruggs couldn't have possibly participated in this alleged bribery scheme -- see this great post on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog where Lattman interviewed Grisham -- while folks walk around considering Balducci as some sort of illegitimate spawn of Hitler for participating in something they otherwise claim… [read post]
2 Dec 2007, 8:45 pm
So the Law Blog has been dispatched to Oxford, Miss., where we’re covering the criminal charges against famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and four others. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 5:47 am
You Don’t Make Friends With Salad writes about an Oklahoma District Attorney who has sued John Grisham and a wrongfully imprisoned man for, well apparently, for writing a book that hurt his feelings. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 1:33 pm
As more than one person has remarked to the Law Blog today, Mississippi’s own John Grisham (pictured, right) couldn’t make this stuff up. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 10:31 am
He was doing it back then.Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 5:25 am
We will never know.I can see this case being the foundation story for a best selling legal novel, by one of my favorite authors, John Grisham. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 1:25 am
"Until Proven Innocent is a better read than a John Grisham novel. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 7:17 pm
The article provides additional information about the dinner and the Innocence Project, and it reports that John Grisham and Scott Turow will be speaking on Wednesday, October 24, at my alma mater, Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 8:04 pm
So organizations like the MIP need support and assistance from entities like PILG and my law school.Tonight's keynote speakers were Mississippi author John Grisham and Chicago author Scott Turow. [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 8:28 pm
As I breezed through the courthouse lobby today, I studied the new bronze statue that regales the space.I realized it celebrates unethical behavior.Three images appear: one judge--as evidenced by the robe; one attorney--as evidenced by the briefcase; and one client--as evidenced by the casual sartorial display.A missing image--the opposing party (or his/her/its counsel).Except in John Grisham novels, lawyer and judicial ethics generally prohibit such "ex parte"… [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 10:27 am
Bill Peterson, an Oklahoma DA, and Gary Rogers, a former OSBI agent, are suing John Grisham and several others for defamation in connection with the decades old murder case of Debbie Sue Carter. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 5:48 pm
In Charlotteville over the weekend, both The Hook and C-Ville Weekly had articles about a defamation suit brought in federal court in Oklahoma against John Grisham by a prosecutor and investigator on the wrong side of the case against The Innocent Man. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 3:17 pm
But if your first novel sold as well as, say, a John Grisham novel, do you think your decision might have been different? [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 5:03 pm
No son infrecuentes los casos de abogados que tienen cierto reconocimiento entre la literatura "seria" (como Héctor Tizón, juez del STJ de Jujuy, como el caso del "centenario" Juan Filloy, otro que era juez) , o que lo intentan (Gus Bossert, Dani Herrendorf), y algunos que se divierten explotando o explorando el género de la ficción legal (John Grisham,… [read post]
