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** In a later book, it's implied that the wild card has nothing to do with him being the best lawyer in the world. {{spoiler|He contracts the virus, and is given the ability to [[Body Surf]], as well as create other Body Surfers by anal rape.}}

* Saad X. Saad of ''Plain Heathen Mischief'' has a machine in his office that, when a quarter is inserted, spits out a gumball of a random flavor. He tells Joel that it's a metaphor for the justice system—you might not get the gumball you want at first, [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|but you'll get it eventually if you keep putting money in]]. ([[Poisonous Friend|Edmund]], who has a grudge against the legal system, [[Cutting the Knot|jimmies the lock with a pocket knife]] and grabs a free gumball.)

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Played with like you would not believe! On one side is Nikki Quinn, a defense attorney. On the other side is Jack Emery, a prosecuting attorney. Nikki defends a woman who shot the man who raped and murdered her daughter, and she shot the guy after the guy was found not guilty! Jack prosecutes the woman, which is ironic, because he prosecuted that murdering rapist and failed to convict the guy. Of course, Nikki is portrayed as the sympathetic one, and Jack is portrayed as the total [[Jerkass]] in that situation. You would find it hard to believe that Nikki and Jack are girlfriend and boyfriend! To Jack's credit, he did reveal in his thoughts that he is not heartless, and that he doesn't know what he would have done if he had a daughter who was raped and murdered. Funny enough, Nikki becomes a vigilante, Jack becomes an ally of the Vigilantes, and so does a defense attorney named Lizzie Fox. In the book ''The Jury'', a defense attorney named Allison Banks, against all advice, defends the Barringtons, a group of slimeballs who let a herd of horses starve to death and only used them for profit. Nikki's firm suffered a major blow in its reputation, and Nikki fired and punched out Banks in short order. Then it turns out that Banks was essentially in bed with the Barringtons, the judge presiding over their case, receiving kickbacks from them, ''and'' was not really Allison Banks. It turned out that Allison died years ago, and that an imposter had assumed her identity. Unbelievable!

* In the [[Michael Connelly]] novel The Lincoln Lawyer, this is happily subverted with the protagonist. While Mickey seems to have some element of this characterization early on in that he is willingly representing guilty people {{spoiler|when he realizes that his current client is truly evil, he does everything within his power to see him arrested. He also is horrified that a man who he convinced to plead guilty is in fact innocent.}} This is also interestingly subverted in that at the end of the novel(not the movie), the Bar association is going after him for some of the actions he took during the course of the movie.

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