Linkage of the week….
:: “My Cousin Vinny” is a lawyer movie that believes in lawyers and the legal system. A just result– the correct result– is reached, and it ends that way because the defendants’ lawyer, Vinny, did his job. That’s a good reason to put it on anybody’s list of great lawyer movies, and congratulations to the ABA for getting it. (That movie is so often viewed as “fluff”, and I’ve always thought it very unfair — in fact, an urban legend holds that Marisa Tomei was awarded the Oscar by accident when the presenter read the wrong name. It’s really a very good movie in itself, and I never even realized the competence of the film’s treatment of the legal proceedings.)
More next week.