The 25 Greatest Legal Movies

Gregory Peck in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

This is off-topic but I am a Legal Secretary and this is my blog so I thought I'd throw you a movie-related post today! (I do love a good film, don't you?)

The August 2008 issue of the ABA Journal (American Bar Association) has a fun article called The 25 Greatest Legal Movies. The Journal polled 12 "prominent lawyers" who teach film or are connected to the film industry to select what they regard as the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law. Together, the films represent 31 Oscars. Quite impressive!

There are several I have never seen (and now want to), but some of my all-time favorites are in there such as #1, #3, and #21.

The 25 Greatest Legal Movies

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. 12 Angry Men
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. Inherit the Wind
6. Witness for the Prosecution
7. Breaker Morant
8. Philadelphia
9. Erin Brockovich
10. The Verdict
11. Presumed Innocent
12. Judgment at Nuremberg
13. A Man for all Seasons
14. A Few Good Men
15. Chicago
16. Kramer v. Kramer
17. The Paper Chase
18. Reversal of Fortune
19. Compulsion
20. And Justice For All
21. In the Name of the Father
22. A Civil Action
23. Young Mr. Lincoln
24. Amistad
25. Miracle on 34th Street

Anyone else out there a fan of legal cinema??