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Mike Farris is an entertainment attorney, now retired, and writer in Dallas, Texas.
He is the past editor of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, and past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section. In addition to writing, he is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books and is an adjunct professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Texas at Arlington.
He represented the plaintiff in the Fifty Shades of Grey litigation that was tried before a jury in Fort Worth, Texas, and resulted in a $13.2 million judgment in favor of his client. See Caroline Overington's fascinating account of the case in Australian Women's Weekly in her article "Fifty Shades of Greed." Mike's collaboration with his client, Jennifer Pedroza, is now available.
“Mas. Gill Jamieson,
poor innocent lad, has departed for the Unknown, a forlorn ‘Walking Shadow’ in
the Great Beyond, where we all go to when the time comes.” Those words, printed in a handwritten
letter delivered to the Honolulu
Star-Bulletin on the morning of September 20, 1928, told t he city of
Honolulu that 10-year-old Gill Jamieson, the only son of Hawaiian Trust Company
vice-president Frederick Jamieson, was dead.
What had begun as the search for a kidnap victim quickly turned into a
search for Gill’s body and for his killer – a 19-year-old Japanese man named
Myles Fukunaga. Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga is now available from Untreed Reads and on Amazon.
At last it can be told, the true insider story of scandal, treachery, and betrayal behind the publishing of one of the most lucrative juggernauts in publishing history, the blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. Fifty Shades of Black and White: Anatomy of the Lawsuit behind a Publishing Phenomenon is available from
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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By Mindy Pennybacker, January 8, 2017, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Hawaii screenwriters Aaron and Jordan Kandell, fresh off their success as part of the writing team for Disney’s “Moana,” have optioned the film rights to a book about the infamous Massie case, a saga of racially explosive crimes, lies and courtroom drama that shook Hawaii in 1931 and ’32. The Massie story raises “important and still relevant issues,” said Aaron Kandell. “I think at that time (racism) was more overt, but those currents are still deeply felt.” The 34-year-old twins’ production company, Twin Ink, was already producing a Massie project with a script by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright when they optioned Texas attorney Mike Farris’ nonfiction book, “A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow” (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99), for an undisclosed sum.
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