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Learning Lawyering From Film: “Let Him Have It”

Film, Hollywood and otherwise, draws attention to what it means to be a lawyer, both good and bad. Think Atticus Finch, heroically portrayed by Gregory Peck and of such iconic stature that “the American Film Institute deemed Atticus Finch the number one movie hero of all time…” McMillian. A DIALOGUE COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD’S PUBLICATION: ATTICUS FINCH-Christian?, 77 Tenn. L. Rev. 739, 748 (Summer, 2010). But filmed versions of trials, real and imagined, also do much more. As described by Professor Thomas Sullivan: Just as film audiences may learn from filmmakers, the writers, directors, actors, and cinematographers are able to create art that informs lawyers and other actors in the legal system about how film viewers may perceive them. Of course, it is equally true that filmmakers may create wholly unreal pictures of the legal system and the work of lawyers that distort, rather than inform film viewers of this process. SYMPOSIUM: IMAGINING THE CRIMINAL LAW: WHEN CLIENT AND LAWYER MEET IN THE MOVIES*, 25 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. …