If you are considering being a trialawyer, you need to know:
Books: Adela Rogers St. John, Final Verdict (it is out of print, but it is the single best trialawyer book ever written)
Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination
Thomas Thompson, Blood and Money
John Barth, The Floating Opera
Melvin Belli, Modern Trials (just be familiar with the concepts)
David Boies, Courting Justice
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Movies: Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the Billy Wilder/Charles Laughton version
Anatomy of a Murder (1959), the book is good, too
Inherit the Wind (1960), the Stanley Kramer/Spencer Tracey version
The Lawyer (1970), the Barry Newman movie
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957), the Sidney Lumet/Henry Fonda version
Compulsion(1959), the Orson Welles version
The Paper Chase (1973), but only about the first 40 minutes or so
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Books: Adela Rogers St. John, Final Verdict (it is out of print, but it is the single best trialawyer book ever written)
Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination
Thomas Thompson, Blood and Money
John Barth, The Floating Opera
Melvin Belli, Modern Trials (just be familiar with the concepts)
David Boies, Courting Justice
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Movies: Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the Billy Wilder/Charles Laughton version
Anatomy of a Murder (1959), the book is good, too
Inherit the Wind (1960), the Stanley Kramer/Spencer Tracey version
The Lawyer (1970), the Barry Newman movie
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957), the Sidney Lumet/Henry Fonda version
Compulsion(1959), the Orson Welles version
The Paper Chase (1973), but only about the first 40 minutes or so
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)