Harvey wrestles with complicated feelings when Donna leaves him to work for Louis. Louis gets his own share of betrayal when his successful sister wants legal representation by the firm; just not by him. Mike finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is arrested, jeopardizing his relationship with Rachel and the very future of the firm. Jessica is forced to decide if Harvey ultimately is the right person to stand by her side.
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Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge mistake and has inadvertently become involved in a dangerous human trafficking ring. The unlikely hero risks it all to shut down the trafficking ring and save the woman he is falling in love with.
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Smart but self-destructive lawyer Cleaver Greene faces new challenges to his career and his personal life as the hit Australian comedy drama returns. Last seen dangling from a runway hot air balloon, Cleaver crashes into the window of wanted criminal Edgar Thompson. Forced out of hiding, Edgar stirs up a huge corruption scandal involving most of the politicians in Sydney, and vows revenge on Cleaver.
Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
The Great Courses: Law School for Everyone
To many people, the law is both powerful and mysterious. We depend on lawyers to help us navigate rules, standards, and procedural codes that have been around for hundreds of years. Because we depend on their specialized skills in argumentation, logic, and critical thinking, we may wonder how they come to know so much about the inner workings of the law.
- Disc 1 - Litigation and legal practice
- Litigation and the American legal system
- Thinking like a lawyer
- Representing your client
- Trial strategy behind the scenes
- Opening statements : the moment of primacy
- Direct examination : questioning your witnesses
- Disc 2 - Litigation and legal practice.
- The art of the objection
- Problematic evidence
- Controlling cross-examination
- Closing arguments : driving your theory home
- Understanding the appellate process
- Disc 3 - Arguing before the Supreme Court
- Who defines crimes, and how?
- Crime and the guilty mind
- Homicide and moral culpability
- The law of self-defense
- Federal crimes and federal power
- Cruel and unusual punishments
- Disc 4 - Criminal law and procedure.
- Due process and the right of counsel
- Government searches and privacy rights
- The shrinking warrant requirement
- The Fifth Amendment privilege
- Miranda and police interrogations
- Plea bargains, jury trials, and justice
- Disc 5 - Civil procedure.
- Procedural rights and why they matter
- Subject matter jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction over the defendant
- A modern approach to personal jurisdiction the role of pleadings
- Understanding complex litigation
- Disc 6 - Civil procedure.
- The use and abuse of discovery
- Deciding a case before the trial ends
- The right to a civil jury trial
- Determining what law applies
- Relitigation and preclusion
- Appeals and how they are judged
- Disc 7 - Torts.
- The calamitous world of tort law
- Legal duty to others
- Reasonable care and the reasonable person
- Rules versus standards of care
- The complexities of factual causation
- Legal causation and foreseeability
- Disc 8 - Torts.
- Liability for the acts of others
- When tort plaintiffs share the blame
- Animals, blasting, and strict liability
- The rise of products liability
- Products liability today
- Punitive damages and their limits.