Bloomberg Law
Oct. 5, 2016, 1:33 PM UTC

New Amazon Show Asks If Big Law Is Too Big?

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Later this month, actor Billy Bob Thornton will star as a disgraced lawyer in Los Angeles in a new series called “Goliath.”

Thornton’s character works on the plaintiff’s side, having been expelled from one of the largest corporate law firms in the world, and the story is a fictional meditation on the differences between working as a sole practitioner versus working for a global powerhouse firm.

“Law has become a corporate power unto itself ... it’s become this monolithic force,” said Jonathan Shapiro, a former federal prosecutor and former of counsel at Kirkland & Ellis, who co-wrote and created the series with David ...

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