Fictional Attorney of the Month: Frank Galvin
Frank Galvin is a miserable and unhappy attorney in The Verdict. Played by Paul Newman, his personal life and his professional life have fallen apart. But in a beautiful film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, Galvin finds redemption in, of all things, a medical malpractice case.
Galvin is tempted to take a large settlement but rejects it in pursuit of the chance to do something right. The case goes to trial, where the evidence is on Galvin's side, but, as with all trials, things never go smoothly in the courtroom.
Galvin's restoration through the film, culminating before the jury during closing argument, are good enough to make him the Fictional Attorney of the Month.
2016 Fictional Attorneys of the Month
January: Mitch Grinder
February: Troy
March: Herr Huld
April: J.J. Ford
May: Paul Biegler
June: The Blue-Haired Lawyer
July: Mr. Briggs
August: Sally Carrera
September: Abraham Haphazard
October: Jackie Chiles
November: Fred Gailey
2015 Fictional Attorneys of the Month
2014 Fictional Attorneys of the Month
2013 Fictional Attorneys of the Month
After blogging about more than forty fictional attorneys on a monthly basis, I've decided to put FAotM on hiatus indefinitely. It was a delightful effort for many years. But there's a grind to a monthly format, and I've been a bit picky in my selection of lawyers, which dramatically reduces the pool of opportunities to blog and makes next year's efforts fairly daunting. There are, of course, many, many more fictional attorneys out there, and perhaps I'll launch back into the project sometime in the future. But for now, a chapter is closing.