Robert Rotstein

The devil as a lawyer...or a lawyer depicted as the devil.

Kill All The Lawyers: Writers vs. Attorneys in Pop Culture

By Robert Rotstein

June 11, 2013

Some of our greatest writers have perpetuated a negative image of the legal profession. “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers,” William Shakespeare famously writes in Henry The Sixth, Part II. Or how about this from Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Devil’s Thoughts (1835): He saw a lawyer killing…

Lawyers on TV: The Case of the Vanishing Hero

By Robert Rotstein

May 20, 2013

At age nine, I became hooked on the legal/mystery series Perry Mason, then in its fourth year on CBS. The first episode of season 4 aired on September 17, 1960. Despite what the calendar said, it was culturally still the 1950s. Dwight Eisenhower was president (John F. Kennedy would be elected six weeks later). Most…

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