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• Legally Speaking: Life imitates art, even in the law (Part One of Two)

  By John G. Browning | Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008 @ 9:30am

  I remember watching the movie "The Rainmaker" (adapted from John Grisham's bestseller of the same name), and being bemused by the first meeting between neophyte lawyer Rudy Baylor (played by Matt Damon) and his soon-to-be employer J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone (Mickey Rourke, who has perfected playing sleazy into an art form).

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