Tom Cruise again hangs with lawyers, this time for Scientology

By Eriq Gardner

Tom Cruise is making a habit of showing up in Boston to hang out with lawyers.

Last month, he enrolled at Harvard Law School for a few hours to hear a lecture from his attorney Bert Fields. On Tuesday, he was back in the city to pay tribute to the legendary Massachusetts attorney Earle C. Cooley, who died of heart failure last month.

Cruise, whose legal credentials include "A Few Good Men," "Jerry Maguire" and "The Firm," hobnobbed with judges, former attorney generals and defense lawyers at the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse. A few attorneys grabbed Cruise for the pictorial trophy wall. 

No, Cruise is not aiming to switch careers after being named by Forbes this week as one of "Hollywood's 10 most overpaid stars." Instead, he showed up to honor Cooley, who was the Church of Scientology's top lawyer for many years.

Then again, perhaps Cruise could pose as a lawyer. One attendee told the Boston Herald that she thought Cruise was "just another lawyer" in the crowd. Maybe the A-list star's next project will finally earn Cruise universal recognition by the bar. After all, in his next film, he'll be playing a fugitive from justice.