‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee’s new courtroom drama

Where’s Atticus Finch when you need him?

Finch, of course, is the honest lawyer, a heroic seeker of justice and hero of Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The intensely private Lee has sadly made new headlines for a lawsuit she has brought against the son-in-law of her former literary agent over the copyright for the only novel she ever wrote. Finch, though unsuccessful in his most important case, bolstered the image of the profession and is said to have inspired young men and women to take up the law.