“You can probably read the first 10 pages of a book
about a courtroom drama and tell if the writer is a lawyer or not. There’s some
things just come naturally. You just know the terminology, the phraseology, the
legal theories, the courtroom procedures. As a lawyer, you just know that kind
of stuff, and I get frustrated when I read legal thrillers or legal courtroom
dramas written by people who are not lawyers, because you can always tell the
lack of authenticity.”—American bestselling legal suspense novelist (and former criminal
defense and personal injury lawyer) John Grisham quoted in Adam Liptak, “
On Judges, Innocence and Being ‘Review-Proof,” The New York Times, Oct.
18, 2021
The accompanying photo of John Grisham was taken Jan.
25, 2008, by Scott Brenner.
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