. >> abacus finch was a lawyer from the south. many of john grisham's characters from the south.ow is the lawyer particularly the trial lawyer perceived differently in the south than in other regions of the country? will start with you this time. >> because i'm from and northern jewish -- [laughter] [talking over each other] >> let's start with that guy. well. will, david. look. i am saying this as a no. jewish-. the southern lawyer is a more flamboyant character. perry mason is humorless. we don't even know what he likes to week. he is in l.a.. does anyone realized that he is actually in l.a. and the car he drives is all pre l.a. law? but matlock is an interesting guy. there is a guy who tells you a lot. they're the kind of wisdom, folksiness, and one can see that in the dramatic presentation of the lawyer at work, up a corporate lawyer staring at boxes of governed material or securities regulation but the court room wisdom of how far as to relate to a jury, how to function as a human being as opposed to a card in a machine, cultural perception is that the southern lawyer does i