[adopted from a novel, by Barry C. Reed]
[note on the novel]

 Bibliography: Paul Bergman, The Movie Lawyers' Guide to Redemptive Legal Practice, 48 UCLA L. Rev. 1394 (2001) [on-line text]; "Lawyers as Villains (The Verdict)," in Michael Asimow & Shannon Mader, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book 47-63 (New York: Peter Lang, 2004) (I do not, for reasons presented in my essay, "Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films" subscribe to the Asimow & Mader analysis of "The Verdict" but they do provide interesting background on the film); Richard D. Parker, "The Good Lawyer: The Verdict (1982)," in Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster & Taunya Lovell Banks (eds.), Screening Justice—The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice 455-463 (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Company, 2006)