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Any great courtroom lit?

>> No.20258713

>>20258701
None at all. The legal profession is filled with pseudo-intellectual charlatans.

>> No.20258718

Lawyers are incapable of creating or understanding art.

>> No.20258721

>>20258718
Henry Fielding?

>> No.20258723

>>20258718
>>20258713
I think he's asking for fiction about courtroom drama, not a lawyer's diary desu

>> No.20258726

>>20258701
>>20258713
while not art, would court transcripts or memoirs of participants qualify as "lit"?

>> No.20258729

>>20258723
>this
sorry about not making myself clear

>> No.20258739

>>20258701
how to koll mockingbird

>> No.20258745

>>20258713
I know it's perfect

>> No.20258749

That Kafka story probably. I've never read it myself, but what Kafka I've read I've liked
>I've I've I've I've I've I've I've I've I've I've I've I've
overuse of I've

>> No.20258788

Is Depp winning this time?

>> No.20258863

>>20258726
It depends. In civil cases, you would want transcripts of divorce proceedings. Literally witnessed a husband and wife yell at each other while their child is in the witness stand. For criminal, they’re only interesting if the defendant testified, but you won’t know until you pay for the transcript. Arraignments and bail proceedings usually have the best comments out of all the stages of criminal law.

>> No.20258979

>>20258749
God I hate repeating a word too much. My guess is it comes from internalizing literary advice and annoyance over other's works that repeat identical words in short intervals.

>> No.20259192

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE

It’s a short film rather than /lit/, but it was supposedly taken from an actual transcript.

>> No.20259198

my cousin vinny

>> No.20259273
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>>20258701
Cicero

>> No.20259282

>>20258726
Yes>>20259273

>> No.20259310

the brothers cramzov

>> No.20259595

>>20259310
This.

>> No.20259626

>>20258723
He's not asking for anything, just making a boring pop culture shitpost

>> No.20260086

>>20258788
he already won because i will watch more movies of his

>> No.20260466

>>20258701
People obsessed with the Depp/Heard trials are so tedious, I've had to block a bunch of Youtube channels that have constantly talked about this shit for years like it was The Last Jedi.

>> No.20260832

>>20258701
John Grisham's The Runaway Jury. It's about the tobacco industry shadow fighting a court case. The movie based on it features the gun industry instead I believe.

>> No.20260863

>>20258788
He won my respect, he seems way more intelligent than what i thought he was.

>> No.20260901

>>20259273
only correct answer itt

>> No.20260926

>>20258863
i am mad at the bureaucrats for releasing the transcripts against money

>> No.20260931

>>20260466
What are you even watching, hasn't happened on my feed

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>>20258701

>> No.20261078

The Lincoln Lawyer.

>> No.20261079

>>20258788
I thought that it was salt bae.

>> No.20261155

Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
These are both about military courts though. Also, The Bonfire of the Vanities a little bit.

>> No.20261262

>>20258718
I am a lawyer, and I deeply agree with you anon

>> No.20261303

>>20258701
>be Gigachad billionaire actor
>fall for a Stacy
>she beats you at home
>she documents all your mistakes on tape
>she films your drug abuse
>she is annoyed that old people play guitar in your home (mostly rockstars probably)
>she tells the world you were a wifebeater
>she shits in your bed
>her lawyers humiliate you because of your drug abuse you admit in a case about domestic violence and libel
stuff for a good novel

>> No.20261308

>>20260931
Neckbeards like the quartering

>> No.20261312

>>20259273
Caelius was guilty and went free because of sophistry

>> No.20261330

>>20261303
Johnny Depp was ruined by a roastie, yet the average man is expected to deal with such evil. Get a gf, Anon! What could go wrong?

>> No.20261851

>>20258701
>And I shit you not, there was a turd on my bed, her fat dumper dropped the smelliest nastiest piece of poo I've seen from any female. Out of embarassantment she blamed our tiny dogs, which by their tiny size obviously couldn't produce a turd of such large magnitude. It was at this point I realized Heard was a smelly retard and it was time to leave

>> No.20262415

>>20260863
Depp's covid video (in some sort of cave) and some of his interviews on Graham Norton I'd seen before made me really respect him.
I think it's a shame he's been blacklisted.

>> No.20262421

>>20259595
You have to sift through 700 pages just to get there.

>> No.20262470

>>20262421
I almost bought this a few days ago. Did I miss out? I wanted to get through Tolstoy's Anna and War&Peace before tackling Dosto.

>> No.20262529

>>20262470
Dostoyevsky is good at creating drama and having characters who hold philosophical debates with themselves. The Brothers Karamazov is daunting at first because there are three main characters and Dostoyevsky has to spend a lot of time setting them all up so their characters are fully formed and that their motivations make sense. I wouldn't choose The Brothers Karamazov as your first Dostoyevsky novel, but it really doesn't matter because you can always try it again. But just know that it does get better and the beginning of the novel (like the first 200 or 300 pages) is important for establishing character.

You also need to keep in mind that at that time the novel is the equivalent of a multiseason tv show. It was the leading form of entertainment and people wanted something they could read for a while and reread.

>> No.20262560

>>20262529
>You also need to keep in mind that at that time the novel is the equivalent of a multiseason tv show. It was the leading form of entertainment and people wanted something they could read for a while and reread.
I found this to be true with Count of Monte Cristo and Moby Dick. In fact, I took so long to read Moby Dick that I had to return it to the library to check it back out again. Shame novels like that are no longer in vogue.

>> No.20262590

>>20258701
damm she looks good
is there a full pic of her tomboy fit

>> No.20262592

The Pelican Brief, but this dumb fucking thread is made by a /tv/ incel retard who just wants to gossip about celebrity bullshit, so they'll never read it

>> No.20262594

>>20261303
>>she beats you at home
h-hot

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>>20258701
the answer is the same as every other time this question is posted. see pic related.

>> No.20262654

>>20261851
why not save it and plaster her face with it later

>> No.20262662

>>20262415
depp is repulsive. i've known that nigga for a decade. he's a sex addict who gets blackout drunk and bangs random thots in vacation spots.

>> No.20262669

>Ctrl+F Bleak House
>0 results
I wouldn't call Bleak House great literature, but it really captures the essence of law.

>> No.20262676

>>20261262
>>20258713
why is that

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>>20260863
To be fair, he ended up in this shitshow with Amber Heard because he was horny. That doesn't make him an idiot, but he was probably a little delusional about his own motivations. For years the guy presented himself publicly as a family man, which probably genuinely came out of his rough family life as a kid, but he meet Heard on Rum Diary and after kissing her in a scene gets horny and pursues a relationship. That was naive and flew in the face of his family man persona, he was a rich A-list actor and Heard was a modestly successful hollywood hot chick. He let her friends live in his houses and shit, he probably thought he was just living as a rich libertine but he was getting taken advantage of. His whole life fell into chaos for like, 5 years because he was in denial that he had fucked up by leaving his long term girlfriend and baby mama for a hollywood hot chick social climber.

>> No.20262719

He should've dressed like Jack Sparrow

>> No.20262760

>>20258701
Merchant of Venice.

thank me later & /thread

>> No.20263376

>>20262662
Shut up Paul Bettany. You get cucked by Elizabeth Olsen in the MCU.

>> No.20263410

>>20258701
Amberchads... We just cant stop winning...

>> No.20263415

A time to kill by John Grisham is pulpy but enjoyable. Very disappointing movie adaptation though, other than Samuel Jackson yelling YES THEY DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL, that is

>> No.20263744

>>20263410
...what happened...she's just as guilty as Depp. Why hasn't she been dropped from her comic book IP and replaced by Madds Mikelsen?

>> No.20263785

>>20258701
12 Angry Men is pretty lit...everyone go watch the version with Henry Fonda

>> No.20263805

>>20263376
Man Paul Bettany must be mad. Him and Depp are boys but don't dry snitch on your homie in court in front of cameras. Bitch move, all over a fucking libel case.

>> No.20264691

ITT: buffoons

>> No.20264695

>>20261330
>i am a sexless being

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>>20258701
CUNT AND FUCK

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>>20258701
Stuff by Henry Cecil

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It's like I always say
There's no justice in the world, just us.