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* Played completely straight in ''[[And Justice for All]]''. [[Al Pacino]] plays a scrupulous attorney who focuses on defending honest clients, then is blackmailed into protecting a rapist judge who enjoyed screwing with him. He breaks down and tells the jury he hates his client, then quits law forever.

* Played completely straight in ''[[The Devil's Advocate]]''. This is actually [[Lou Cypher|Milton's]] master plan - create the most skilled [[Amoral Attorney|Amoral Attorneys]] imaginable, put them at the disposal of the most despicable people in the world, and have them use the loopholes in the law to protect the guilty until the world is filled with human monsters, making the world his and his alone.

** At the end of the film, after the [[Reset Button]] is pushed, Lomax takes the trope to heart and dismisses himself from the defense of a child molester.

* Subverted in the movie ''[[Primal Fear (film)|Primal Fear]]''. The defense attorney spends most of the movie trying to prove that his client is not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. He succeeds and the client is sentenced to a mental hospital with a good chance of being released. However, the attorney find out that his client was {{spoiler|just pretending to be insane and is actually guilty of not only the murder he was charged with, but another as well}}. Because of attorney-client confidentiality the attorney can't tell anyone the truth.