Legal Commentary

You can have your Atticus Finch.  My favorite movie lawyer of all time only appeared for a few minutes and then went on to hawk Quaker Oats and "die-a-BEAT-us" supplies:  Wilford Brimley as James J. Wells, Assistant Attorney General for the Organized Crime Division.  Now there's a lawyer:  a man who can stuff a chaw in his mouth before he gives some straight-from-the-shoulder advice that the U.S. attorney in Miami ought to resign, and who can say "supeenie" for subpoena without cracking a smile. (For what it's worth, and merely for name-dropping purposes, the screenwriter was Kurt Luedtke, former managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, and the next door neighbor of one of my former partners.)