An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date. Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones
The 25 Best Lawyer. 1 1. My Cousin Vinny (1992) Directed by Jonathan Lynn and written by Dale Launer, My Cousin Vinny follows two young New Yorkers, Bill Gambini and Stan ... 2 2. 12 Angry Men (1957) 3 3. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 4 4. The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) <. 5 5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) More items
The Firm (1993) Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise): “I discovered the law again. You actually made me think about it. I managed to get through three years of law school without doing that.” 11. Double Jeopardy (1999) Bobby (Jay Brazeau): “I’m a lawyer.
A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career. 16. The Rainmaker (1997) Error: please try again.
The story centers around a star attorney’s return home to attempt to salvage his father’s reputation after he is accused of murder. The plot is made more fascinating by his father being one of the town’s judges, who has sentenced countless people over his years.
The movie received an eighty-two percent score on the “Tomatometer” from Rotten Tomatoes. It was also nominated for four Academy Awards (best picture, best actor in a supporting role, best sound, best film editing.) 8. The Lincoln Lawyer.
The Pelican Brief in an enthralling tale following a law student who writes a paper theorizing about the perpetrators of a heinous crime: the murder of two sitting Supreme Court judges. After her professor sends the “Pelican Brief” along, he is murdered and the president convinces the FBI to hold off the investigation. The movie is thrilling and will leave an audience guessing until the very end.
The Verdict. The Verdict tells the story of a lawyer attempting to rebuild and save his damaged career. He decides not to do the given thing and settle out of court for a medical malpractice case, instead of taking it to court. The tale is a tale of redemption as well as the potential risks of ego.
Michael Clayton. Michael Clayton is an action-packed adventure of a film. The movie is about a law firm bringing in one of their best attorneys after the previous lawyer had a mental breakdown.
The movie is about a loudmouthed law school graduate who hasn’t passed the bar attempting to free his cousin and his cousin’s friend who has been wrongfully accused of murder.
The Lincoln Lawyer in an enthralling film about a lawyer who begins to question whether his wealthy client is guilty of more crimes than what he is defending him for. The film is incredible and told at great pace. It will question the morality of defending anyone, and sheds light on some of the moral sacrifice lawyers are often forced to make.
Once his client wins, taking the children from their caring father, Carrey has another crisis of confidence and screams at the judge to reverse the decision. This hastens the only believable part of the film, when the judge holds Carrey in contempt of court and throws him in jail.
Woods excels at Harvard partially because she is smarter than anyone expects, and also because she’s hot. Elle eventually takes an internship with a professor and works on a high-profile case with her ex and his new girlfriend. Elle shines in the courtroom by building on what she knows best: fashion and people.
The most important part of this scene is that a jar of slime really hates the judge (who does not believe in ghosts). When he finds the Ghostbusters guilty and goes on a rant about their destruction and absurd belief in ghosts, the slime bubbles up and releases the ghosts of two men the judge put to death years before.
But unable to tell lies, Carrey is also unable to get the desired response from the witness, and flails around the courtroom, beating himself out in an attempt to lie.
The problem, of course, is that Richards, an actor, knows nothing about law. This leads to scenes in which Richards fumbles around the courtroom, making absurd objections and outwardly asking witnesses to perjure themselves to help his case.
In this 1971 comedy, Woody Allen does what any self-respecting man would do to impress a woman: move to South America and become a revolutionary. After the leader of the revolution goes crazy, Allen’s character reunites with his girlfriend (who is impressed!) and tries to come back to the United States, only to be arrested and charged with a number of outlandish crimes, including treason.
Andy Gillin received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He is the managing partner of GJEL Accident Attorneys and has written and lectured in the field of plaintiffs’ personal injury law for numerous organizations. Andy is a highly recognized wrongful death lawyer in California.
Primal Fear (1996) Based on the 1993 William Diehl novel of the same name, this classic thriller has it all: murder, a possibly innocent man on trial, multiple personalities, and a driven defense attorney (Richard Gere) who's fighting for justice for his client.
The Firm (1993) As you can tell from the rest of this list, the '90s were a golden era of sleek, movie-star-packed legal thrillers, and they don't get much better than director Sydney Pollack's The Firm.
A Few Good Men (1992) Considering this list was inspired by the release of The Trial of the Chicago 7, we had to include Aaron Sorkin's debut film as a writer, the adaptation of the play that made him a star, A Few Good Men.
After the box-office success of movie adaptations of his novels The Firm and The Pelican Brief in 1993, plus his run on the best-seller list, the legal thriller writer looked untouchable.
A lesser-known early work from screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, the mastermind behind Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Jagged Edge offers an alluring mix of violent mayhem, ill-advised romance, and legal intrigue. Glenn Close plays Teddy Barnes, a defense attorney recruited to defend a wealthy newspaper publisher (Jeff Bridges) accused of killing his wife. Soon enough, they're riding horses, preparing for trial, and carrying on their own secret affair. Set primarily in the wealthy homes and spacious offices of San Francisco's Reagan-era elite, the movie has a lushness that sets it apart from many of the legal thrillers of the '90s, which often played out in the sweltering Southern cities of Grisham's novels.
A legal drama doesn't necessarily need to be centered on courtroom scenes to be satisfying. Civil lawsuits exist, too, and Erin Brockovich is a crackling thriller that's about the law and lawyers, as well as a character study and a takedown of corporate America. Steven Soderbergh's film is probably best remembered for Julia Roberts' Oscar-winning performance and her brash, foul-mouthed, and altogether lovable take on the eponymous real-life legal assistant who uncovers environmental negligence and cover-up perpetrated by California's major electric and gas provider. It's also a sun-soaked exploration of how companies knowingly poison people and do nothing about it, and the kind of bravura and doggedness it takes to take them down.
The film, which came and went in theaters in 2017 with little fanfare, stars Denzel Washington as the cranky, old-school lawyer of the title.