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Scholarly reflection on the portrayal of lawyers and legal processes in film is a growing practice. As to its status as a sub-discipline of law, it may be identified as Law and Film Studies, as part of the law and literature movement, as a primary focus of Law and Popular Culture Studies, or as existing under the umbrella of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. There is general agreement that the images of law and lawyers in popular fiction and cinema reflect how people view and understand legal processes, although there is less agreement that such images create new views and understandings. Just as the popular perception of scientists represented in cinema about science is nowadays quite positive, the portrayal of science and scientists in lawyer movies is correspondingly positive. Judges...
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Kurt Wallander is perhaps the gloomiest of law officers plodding through crime fiction, and Henning Mankell apparently has decided to ring down the curtain on the implacable creature he has created without allowing him a glimmer of good humor.
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Senate Republicans demonstrated last week how things really work in Columbus, and it's not a chapter in that book of light fiction known as "How a Bill Becomes Law. GOP senators decided -- faster than it took St. Paul to fall off a horse galloping toward Damascus -- that they now want to ban so- called Internet sweepstakes cafes or parlors in Ohio.
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Big Brother and Big Business may soon be able to easily spy on American citizens using surveillance drones, security and civil liberties specialists warned Tuesday. As technology inches closer to that of science fiction, U.S. law has failed to keep up with those advances, they said, claiming that Fourth Amendment and other personal privacy protections are no longer enough to shield citizens from the unseen eye of drones, which will become commonplace sooner than most Americans realize.
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MIAMI, FL - AAPACT proudly presents its latest production, Stories about the Old Days written by Bill Harris. The play stars two of South Florida's finest actors, John Pryor and Gail Willingham and is directed by Andre' L. Gainey. AAPACT is a not-for-profit community theatre company that has produced a wide variety of thought provoking theatrical pieces not normally produced in South Florida for the last six years. Founded by Teddy Harrell, Jr. and Gainey, AAPACT has not only utilized inner city space to present quality theatre, but has consistently made these performances available to non-traditional audiences as well as employed South Florida's many Black theatre professionals. Gainey is in the director's chair again for his company AAPACT. In 2002, he directed AAPACT's debut play The...
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Louis Auchincloss, patrician New York lawyer and novelist, kicked the bucket at age 92 in January 2010. After graduating from Groton and attending Yale, he took a law degree from the University of Virginia, spent his life in the law (retiring at 69) and in fiction and nonfiction, enlarging our vision of ourselves through his words. His memoir of his youth makes it clear he was raised lovingly in a sheltered environment. Intellectually, he does not appear to have considered major spheres of activity, sex or religion, in his adult life.
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The promising cast of Zooman and the Sign show cases South Florida acting greats Carey Hart (Rachel Tate), [Larry Robinson] (Emmett Tate), [Teddy Harrell, Jr.] (Reuben Tate), [Kevin Johnson] (Donald Jackson), [Catherine A. Williams] (Ash Boswell) and [Rachel Finley] (Grace Georges). The play also features new, young actors [Derrick Chiverton] (Zooman), [Curtis Holland] (Victor Tate) and [Lamar Swan] (Russell Adams). [Andre L. Gainey] is in the director's chair again for his company AAPACT. In 2002, he directed AAPACT's debut play The Island written by Athol Fugard. Gainey directed three other plays, Having Our Say-The First 100 Years of the Delaney Sisters, Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Stories About the Old Days. As an actor, Gainey's most recent work has been August Wilson's Jitney. Gainey ...
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Call it the non-fiction version of "The Firm" (without Tom Cruise). The American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section recently released "Introduction to Law Firm Practice," by Michael Downey, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson in St. Louis, Mo. and an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law.
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CALIFORNIA is independent and ahead of the health care reform curve regardless of the political sea change in Congress and around the rest of the country. The rhetoric about repealing, diluting and drying up the health care reform law is fiction. Most of the major overhauls are funded with mandatory - not discretionary - funding, there is a ban on discriminating against patients with pre-existing conditions and a majority of Californians have repeatedly told respected pollsters they support the changes.
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Olympic athletes compete in Beijing. Indiana Jones goes on another adventure. David Mamet returns to Broadway. And horror erupts on an idyllic Florida key. The Hollywood writers' strike has put a damper on television and movie production, but the entertainment industry still has a lot of product in the pipeline for 2008. TV viewers might be confronted by an overload of last-minute reality shows to fill the gap in between scripted series, but fans of science fiction, historical drama, "The Wire" and "Law & Order" should find enough to fill their TiVos in the first half of the year.
