Here's a link to BookTV's broadcast of a September 2011 session at the National Press Club celebrating the award of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction to John Grisham. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Library of Congress' National Book Festival. From the BookTV website:
After accepting the award the author speaks about being a lawyer and the role that law plays in contemporary fiction with a panel that includes, novelists David Baldacci, Linda Fairstein, and Thane Rosenbaum, Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, lawyer Robert Grey, Jr, and Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The prize is sponsored by the University of Alabama and chosen by a blue ribbon team of jurors.