1970s TRILOGY: legal scenes

BURNING QUESTIONS: A teenager is found shot shortly after witnessing a hotel arson. Did his girlfriend Christina Lima have a hand in it? Nate Lewis, law intern investigates. A SHOT IN THE ARM: Nate is hired to defend a black militant accused of homicide, but his big retainer was stolen from rogue government agents. THE 4th CONSPIRATOR: After Nate takes the case of a winery V.P. accused of killing a pot garden thief Christina is critically injured. Are the two incidents somehow connected?

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Monday, February 6, 2012

WHAT DO LAWYERS AND AUTHORS HAVE IN COMMON?

While I was preparing my non-fiction trial guide, SEE YOU IN COURT! for publication, it came to me that it was a good reference work for writing fictitious court scenes. It is full of nuances and quirks that could lend credence to a narrative. And that got me to wondering what, if anything, lawyers and authors have in common. Go to the mystery and thriller section of a bookstore (if you can find one of those) and you will see that a lot of authors are actually lawyers who write novels. I came to the conclusion that there must be something they have in common. But what? Find out by reading the whole article at See You In Court!