This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media. Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Bringing Cultural Analysis to the Study of Cause Lawyers: An Introduction 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold PART I THE CULTURAL WORK OF CAUSE LAWYERS 1 "No sacrifice is too great for the Cause!": Cause(less) Lawyering and the Legal Trials and Tribulations of Gone With the Wind 27 William P. MacNeil 2 Purpose-Driven Lawyers: Evangelical Cause Lawyering and the Culture War 56 Kevin R. den Dulk 3 Cause Lawyers and Cracker Culture at the Constructive Edge: A "Band of Brothers" Defeats Big Tobacco 79 Tim Howard PART II THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF LAWYERS AND THEIR CAUSES 4 "They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news': Images of Human Rights Lawyers in the British Press 141 Richard J. Maiman 5 Ed Fagan and the Ethics of Causes: Who Stole Identity Politics? 172 Valerie Karno 6 Of Windmills and Wetlands: The Press and the Romance of Property Rights 188 Laura J. Hatcher 7 "The Kids are Alright": Cause Lawyering on Television in 1960's America 203 Thomas M. Hilbink 8 Nothing to Believe In Lawyers in Contemporary Films About Public Interest Litigation 230 Michael McCann and William Haltom 9 "Of course he just stood there; he's the law": Two Depictions of Cause Lawyers in Post-Authoritarian Chile 253 Stephen Meili 10 Paulina Escobar as Cause Lawyer: "Litigating" Human Rights in the Shadows of Death and the Maiden 278 Ben Fleury-Steiner and Aaron Fichtelberg PART III THE CULTURAL RECEPTION OF LAWYERS AND THEIR CAUSES 11 Cause Lawyering "English Style": Reading Rumpole of the Bailey 297 Leslie J. Moran 12 Now You See It, Now You Don't: Cause Lawyering, Popular Culture, and A Civil Action 331 Stuart A. Scheingold 13 Not What They Expected: Legal Services Lawyers in the Eyes of Legal Services Clients 359 Corey S. Shdaimah Index 389