Only Law Firm in Town
The law firm at the center of the show. You'd think occasionally, the plaintiff in one of these cases would pick a different firm. Instead it seems like there's only one law firm they can possibly go to.
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When you have only one lawyer in town, he's usually barely making a living and is just hanging on. Once you have two law firms in town, we discover that both lawyers are now quite prosperous members of the community.
—Typical lawyer joke
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A sister trope to Only Shop in Town.
Examples of Only Law Firm in Town include:
Comic Books
- In the Marvel Universe, pretty much every time anyone in New York needs a criminal lawyer for anything, they'll call in Nelson and Murdock, unless the writer feels like being different, in which case they may go for Jennifer Walters.
Live-Action TV
- L.A. Law
- Ally McBeal
- Picket Fences had all manner of issues show up in cases plead by one particular attorney to one particular, exasperated judge.
- The Practice
- Boston Legal to the point where they occasionally represented both sides in a case.
- Kingdom: Justified in that Market Shipborough is a rather small town; there's probably another law firm in town, but just the one. Or maybe two. But no more.
- Eli Stone