ABA List of 25 Greatest Law Novels.
The August 2013 issue of The ABA Journal list these as the 25 greatest law novels ever (actually 26, because 25 drew a tie between two books):
25. (tie) Old Filth by Jane Gardam (2004)
25. (tie) The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940)
24. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
23. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver (1958)
22. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
21. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (1844)
20. The Firm by John Grisham (1991)
19. QB VII by Leon Uris (1970)
18. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
17. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951)
16. A Time to Kill by John Grisham (1989)
15. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
14. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
13. Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
12. Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (1853)
11. The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr. (1971)
10. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
9. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1987)
8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
7. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (1987)
6. Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1924; left unfinished at his death in 1891)
5. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852)
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Grisham, Dickens, and Melville were authors having two books on the list.
U.S. District Judge Otis Wright Blasts Copyright Suing Attorneys.
In Ingenuity 13 v. John Doe, U.S. District Judge Otis Wright (C.D. Cal.) had this to say in a 2013 decision: “Plaintiffs have outmaneuvered the legal system. They’ve discovered the nexus of antiquated copyright laws, paralyzing social stigma and unaffordable defense costs. And they exploit this anomaly by accusing individuals of illegally downloading a single pornographic video ... For these individuals, resistance is futile. ... So now, copyright laws originally designed to compensate starving artists allow starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to plunder the citizenry.”
Wage/Hour Claims Soar in Federal Courts Since 2008.
Seyfarth Shaw’s Wage & Hour Litigation Blog, in a May 9, 2013 post, reports that since 2008, the number of wage/hour claims filed in federal court has steadily increased: 5,302 actions filed in 2008; 5,644 in 2009; 6,081 in 2010; 7,008 in 2012; and 7,764 so far in 2013.
Changing Expectations of Pre-Law Students.
Kaplan Test Prep survey of April 11, 2013 informs us that 50% of pre-law students expect to use their law degree in a nontraditional legal job.
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