The 20th and 21st centuries have produced some outstanding (and award-winning) legal, or legal-adjacent, motion pictures. Here, we flesh out what makes a good legal movie and why, and what are the best and most enjoyable cinematic experiences involving lawyers. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Keith Ford (deputy editor of Lawyers Weekly's sister brand, ifa) to discuss his passion for cinema, the tropes and themes that can make up a legal-adjacent motion picture, the myriad forms a legal movie can take, from courtroom drama to class action investigation, and whether legal movies need to be realistic to be good. The episode also delves into the necessity or otherwise of a true story to make a good legal movie, the importance of social, cultural or personal themes that can hit home for the audience, the extent to which the Australian movie industry has produced good legal films, the tenet of injustice being overcome by central characters, and what both Doraisamy and Ford view as being the best legal movies of all time, and what their personal favourites are. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Lawyers Weekly Show) and by following Lawyers Weekly on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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