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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"It's only natural for living creatures to fight to protect their own lives. But what makes us human is that we fight for others. But who do you fight for? How hard must you fight...? That's the true measure of what human life is worth. We defense attorneys are warriors who are constantly challenged by that question. Even when the battle is over, and the bonds that connect us are severed... We always return... Time and time again."''
|'''Phoenix Wright''', ''[[Ace Attorney]]''}}
{{quote|'''Judge Garrett:''' In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation.
'''Joe Miller:''' With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom, do we?
|''[[Philadelphia]]''}}
Some Lawyers are purely in it for the Money. At best they don't care who you are or what they are represent at court as long as the bill gets paid. At worst they are [[Amoral Attorney]]s who will do anything to win while giving a crap whom they have as client.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* From Marvel:
** [[Daredevil|Matt Murdoch]] brings the same sense of work ethics and morality into his [[Secret Identity|day-job.]]
** [[She Hulk]] too.
* The latest, pre-New52, incarnation of [[Manhunter]] (No, not the [[Martian Manhunter|green one]]) shows one of the more extreme versions of this trope, as she is a prosecutor willing to bring criminals justice as vigilante if it isn't found in court.▼
** And as hard as it is to believe [[Let's You and Him Fight| (given how much the good guys seem to love fighting each other in comics)]] it took ''until 2014'' before [http://marvel.com/comics/issue/49124/she-hulk_2014_10 the two opposed each other on opposite sides in a case.]
▲* The latest
* In many versions of ''[[Batman]]''' continuity, Harvey Dent was a district attorney in Gotham City and ally of Batman before a gangster throws acid in his face, prompting his [[Face Heel Turn|transformation into Two-Face]]. Some continuities portray him as an [[Amoral Attorney]] and/or [[Corrupt Politician]], with his fate being a [[Karmic Transformation]] as a result of his hypocrisy.
== [[Film]] ==
* Edward L. Masry in ''[[Erin Brockovich]]'', though more on the "ending there" than "starting there" side. Also in [[Real Life]].
* Similarly, Joe Miller from ''[[Philadelphia]]''.
* Alan Isaacman in ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]''
* When superheroes were started to be sued and banned by the government in ''[[The Incredibles]]'', daytime-lawyer/nighttime-hero Gazerbeam fought as hard as he could for the rights of his masked compatriots.
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* In ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]] (2006)'', the [[Only Law Firm in Town|town's only lawyer]], Sally, turns a seemingly-routine traffic court case into a lengthy, idealistic oratory on why Main Street (US 66) must be rebuilt to save the town economically.
* John Travolta's character Jan Schlichtmann in ''[[A Civil Action]]'' was this type of lawyer. He ended up {{spoiler|going bankrupt}} because of his dedication to the cause.
== [[Live
* ''[[JAG]]'' veers into this some times, as they go to some lengths to win their cases, like firing a sub-machine gun in the courtroom.
* Most lawyers at [[Boston Legal|Crane, Pool & Schmidt]], given the right case. Especially Alan Shore (after some [[Character Development]]), who is always willing to stand onto his soapbox for the underdog, bends this and [[Amoral Attorney]] together into a nice pretzel.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Celia from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is technically still at law school, but shows hallmarks that this will be the kind of lawyer she'll be.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Tom from ''[[The Boondocks]]''. It says a lot when you're the only person in the cast whom [[Conspiracy Theorist|Huey]] genuinely trusts. Unfortunately, he's honest and generous almost to a fault.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller FBI special counsel Robert Mueller] has the reputation of this in the eyes of many of [[Donald Trump]]'s detractors; to Trump's supporters, he's an [[Amoral Attorney]]. Of course, neither is truly accurate; he's as amoral as a lawyer needs to be, and no matter how well-intentioned he was, he certainly wasn't doing it out of charity.
** On a similar note, as of early 2023, many of Trump's detractors were thinking the same thing of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Georgia_election_investigation Fulton County Georgia DA Fani Willis].
* Would you believe Fred Phelps? Originally, the founder of the notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church was known as a civil rights advocate in the 50s and 60s, and as a defense attorney, argued - often successfully, in Kansas no less - in cases where such was an issue. It seemed to go downhill for him after he was disbarred for filing frivolous lawsuits.
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