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Donna Ballman is the author of The Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: Let’s Quill All the Lawyers, a book geared toward informing novelists and screenwriters about the ins and outs of the civil justice system.  Her new book, Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: How to Handle Your Workplace Crisis Before You Scream “Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home,” Get Fired, Or Decide to Sue the Bastards will be released in Fall 2012. Her agent is Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency.

 
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Saturday 5th May

A couple of weeks ago, The Good Wife dealt with at-will employment in an episode called The Penalty Box. In that episode, Cary Agos, the former colleague of our heroine Alicia,...

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Sunday 26th February

I was disappointed in the last episode of The Good Wife because one of the main characters, Will Gardner (who is also the heroine’s off and on love interest) faced a disbarment hearing....

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Sunday 5th February

I know I don’t usually talk about criminal procedure here in The Write Report. My forte is civil law, not criminal. But a...

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Thursday 19th January

Writers love to show lawyers using twins to trick witnesses into false identifications. The plotline will have the witness asked, “Can you show me the man who attacked you?” The witness points to...



Thursday 12th January

In the episode “Parenting Made Easy,” The Good Wife represents a professor who claims she was fired due to discrimination based upon her political beliefs. Whether or not such a claim...



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