Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Tom Berenger acted in the above movie.
Among the older Chinese, they would try to prevent any of their descendants from becoming criminal lawyers. The main reason given is that a good criminal lawyer would find ways to acquit accused who are actually guilty, thus perverting justice.
In this movie, a New Orleans attorney Lawson Russel found it difficult to defend a remorseless man and recluse himself from a heated case. As a result of that, interested parties managed to disbar him. He went to his father's beach house and planned to write his first novel. Alas, it was not everyone's cup of tea to become the next John Grisham! In a clear cut case, he was set up with a story which he was greedy enough to publish as his own. As fame and wealth came his way, he became embroiled as a serial murder suspect.
Russel did have integrity as a person who said "Enough is enough!" to defending the guilty rich for a comfortable living. But he did not have the honesty not to take a dead man's manuscript as his own.
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