I highly recommend Hot Coffee, a documentary that recently premiered on HBO. Hot Coffee is almost painful but if you are interested in truth it begins and ends in this film. Watching this documentary will give a complete and accurate overview of the civil side of contemporary American law. We will have to await attorney Susan Saladoff—who produced and directed Hot Coffee—to do a sequel to give an overview of the criminal justice system. But for now, Hot Coffee is the only documentary or fictionalized movie I am aware of that comes close to an accurate portrayal of the real practice of law in America today—as opposed to 30 years ago.
