…at Kevin O’Keefe’s site Real Lawyers Have Blogs (and this is probably a good place for a reminder that I am not in fact a lawyer)(cross-posted from Point of Law).

No, I still haven’t seen a copy of this documentary (Apr. 19), which has been getting rave reviews all over the place and is a new Ebert & Roeper weekly pick. It’s just out on DVD now, and available on Amazon, where it’s selling briskly. Here’s the New York Times’s review:

Writer-director Eric Chaikin’s feature-length documentary A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar. . . offers a witty, seriocomic look at myriad aspects of the American legal process and judicial system. It hones in on six individuals, all prospective attorneys at the time of the film’s production, and follows them through trials and travails as they approach and take the formidable bar. Chaikin then uses the subjects’ stories as springboards to broader digressions on U.S. litigation. The film features a myriad of celebrity guest appearances, from both well-respected attorneys and entertainers. Participants include: attorneys Alan Dershowitz, Mark Lanier and Joe Jamail; comics Eddie Griffin and Michael Ian Black; TV commentators John Stossel and Nancy Grace, and many others.

The producers interviewed me at length as part of their research in making the film, and they tell me that some of the resulting footage appears in the bonus tracks on the DVD. The film’s website is here. More: Above the Law, Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites, David Giacalone (scroll down), Suzanne Howe @ Counsel to Counsel.

At Bloggasm, “a media blog featuring interviews from the most interesting blogs around,” Simon Owens asks me six questions about the law and about this weblog generally. My favorite is on the difference between writing books and writing a blog. You’ll also hear my suggestions when asked to name five blogs that complement this one. Read the whole interview here.

…at the blog of speechwriter and ghostwriter Jane Genova, who for the past two months has been liveblogging the Providence retrial of Rhode Island’s lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead paint. Among topics we touch on in the interview: the role of media hype and TV cameras in big trials today; problems with jury selection, and the treatment of jurors generally; two reasons I hope Rhode Island loses its lead paint case; and the case for patience on liability reform. (Jan. 25).

Last week this site’s editor visited the Sooner State to speak to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, in conjunction with which visit commentator/radio host Brandon Dutcher recorded this informal Q & A which touches on the tobacco and fast food litigation, the prophetic role of former Okla. Sen. Fred Harris, and more (”No Joke: Lawsuit Abuse Hurts Us All”, interview with Walter Olson, OCPA Perspective, August)

Steven Martinovich at Enter Stage Right talks with our editor about what’s wrong with the legal system and how this site came to be (”The case against lawyers: An interview with Walter Olson”, Aug. 18). Doug Bandow’s review of our editor’s new book The Rule of Lawyers, which appeared in National Review this spring, is finally online now (”Shyster Heaven”, National Review Online, Apr. 21). More recent publicity: “Lawsuit lockdown” (editorial on malpractice crisis), Las Vegas Review-Journal, Aug. 7; Anne Marie Borrego, “Fairer Class Action” (on the Class Action Fairness Act), Inc. magazine, Aug.; “Shame on you Rush”, Cut on the Bias (Susanna Cornett’s blog), Aug. 9.

Now at a stable URL, last Friday’s interview mostly concentrated on our editor’s new book The Rule of Lawyers (David Isaac (interviewer), “Frivolous Lawsuits Creating New Power Class — Lawyers”, Jun. 13, reprinted at Manhattan Institute site).