Earlier this year, the ABA Journal asked 12 lawyers who teach film or are connected to the business to choose what they regard as the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law. Their nominations were collated into a top 25 list, which you can review here.
I was glad to see that not only did My Cousin Vinny make the list, but it ranked as #3 behind To Kill A Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men. I show My Cousin Vinny each year at the end-of-the-season wrap-up/party for the high school mock trial team that I coach. Briefest and best opening statement ever. And I can't decide whether DA Trotter's voir "dye-er" of general automotive knowledge expert Miss Mona Lisa Vito or Vinny Gambini's "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?" cross-examination of Sam Tipton is better.
Guess I'm not alone in using My Cousin Vinny as a pedagogical tool.
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