Trial Movies - So Quaint, as juries learn about law on small screen

I guess you can call it quaint that the August ABA JOURNAL ran a piece on what might be the best trial movies.  Among the selections, reports Robert J. Ambrogi in Legalblogwatch.com, have been "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Miracle on 34th Street."

It's the small screen, though, which made the nation law-literate.  Those "teachers" have ranged from "Perry Mason" and "LA Law" to "Court TV" and "Law and Order." This mashup of fiction and reality has created a growing market for anything legal that could never be satisfied by the film industry. I know. There are many non-lawyers among lead paint watchers and they are the biggest consumers of the briefs and other court documents.