ENTER! TV & Media Avatar Contest: Lawyer Up!

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So, you've been charged with a serious criminal offense... wrongly, of course! Which TV & Media lawyer do you want defending you, with your freedom on the line?

Standard avatar rules apply: your avatar must be no larger than 150 x 150, and less than 140 KB if animated.

Let's say no SF&F for this one. Also, if you could please identify your lawyer, and what show/movie/etc they are from, that would be appreciated!

I'm thinking of posting the voting thread on Wednesday, but can leave it until later if needed.

To start us off:

- Ellenor Frutt, The Practice

Have fun!

 

[auntiehill]

Jack McCoy, Law & Order.

 

[Timewalker]

Diane Miller, General Hospital

 

[Evil Twin]

Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad

 

[Random_Spock]

I got my entry:

Perry Mason, Perry Mason

Hope you don't mind the Gifup.com mark on it. I was looking for an animation site to use and came across this one.

 

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Alan Shore, The Practice /Boston Legal

 

[Saga]

Jackie Chiles. Seinfeld.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

John "The Biscuit" Cage - Ally McBeal

 

[Kai "the spy"]

 

[the G-man]

Jack McCoy, Law & Order.

Auntie's entry brings up a question for the OP:
The premise of the contest seems to imply defense attorneys only.
Are DA's eligible?
(Asking because I'm trying to decide on my own entry).

 

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^ Interesting question. I will admit that when I came up with the theme, I was thinking in terms of defence lawyers, but it is supposed to be who you would want defending you, so if someone would want to be defended by a prosecutor, who am I to judge?

I don't really want to limit entrants too much. And my understanding is that prosecutors leave civil service to take up private practice all the time, so anything is possible. So bottom line, if you'd like to enter a prosecutor, feel free.

 

[Aragorn]

Atticus Finch

 

[the G-man]

Thanks for the clarification. In any event...

 

[auntiehill]

Atticus Finch

There's the winner, right there.

 

[the G-man]

I think we'd all want Atticus is our father but as an attorney? He lost

 

[Kai "the spy"]

^^ Which was not his fault. The jury had made up their mind before he could even introduce himself.

There's a reason why Atticus Finch had an actual impact on real life legal profession, as a role model to many idealist jurists.

 

[auntiehill]

^Quite so.

 

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-Lionel Hutz (he sucks but seldom loses)

 

[the G-man]

^^ Which was not his fault. The jury had made up their mind before he could even introduce himself.

There's a reason why Atticus Finch had an actual impact on real life legal profession, as a role model to many idealist jurists.

I know. I was just being facetious, given that the premise was who you'd want to represent you. One normally doesn't choose the defense attorney who loses the big case.

By they way, and solely for discussion purposes (i.e., I'm not endorsing it, just saying it's an interesting theory), I am reminded of an article written by Monroe Freedman, a law professor and legal ethics expert, where he argued that Atticus was actually an bad role model:

• Legal scholars concede that Finch has his ethical lapses. In telling his children to pity their grumpy, bigoted neighbor, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, because she was addicted to morphine, he was arguably betraying a client's confidence. Later, to spare the reclusive Boo Radley from a murder prosecution, he countenances Sheriff Heck Tate's fiction that the nefarious Bob Ewell actually fell upon his own knife.
  
  [Moreover], Mr. Freedman writes, Finch represented Tom Robinson zealously, and for nothing in return. But he took the case involuntarily -- failure to accept the court-ordered appointment could have landed him in what Miss Lee called Maycomb's "miniature Gothic joke" of a jail for contempt -- and only "from an elitist sense of noblesse oblige." Besides, Mr. Freedman asked, what had Finch done up to that point to combat the forces that brought Robinson down?
  
  Far from attacking racism at its root, Mr. Freedman charges, Finch was complicit in it. For all his gentlemanliness, he does not complain that blacks attending court are relegated to the balcony. He eats in segregated restaurants; he walks in parks where signs say "No Dogs or Colored Allowed." And he is too willing to excuse racism in others, dismissing the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan as "a political organization more than anything else," and the leader of the lynch mob as "basically a good man" with "blind spots."
  
  More than a racist, Finch is a sexist. Mr. Freedman notes that in his closing argument to the jury Finch dismisses Eleanor Roosevelt as "the distaff side of the executive branch in Washington." Worse, while encouraging Jem to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer, he does not similarly encourage his daughter. "Scout understands that she will be some gentleman's lady," Mr. Freedman writes.

 

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Any more entries? I'm planning to post the voting thread in the next 24 - 48 hours.

Recap time!

Timelord Victorious

John "The Biscuit" Cage, Ally McBeal

Saga

Jackie Chiles, Seinfeld

the G-man

Denny Crane, Boston Legal

Aragorn

Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Ellenor Frutt, The Practice

Evil Twin

Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad

bbjeg

Lionel Hutz, The Simpsons

Kai "the spy"

Harriet Korn, Harry's Law

Random Spock

Perry Mason, Perry Mason

auntiehill

Jack McCoy, Law & Order

Timewalker

Diane Miller, General Hospital

od0_ital

Alan Shore, The Practice / Boston Legal