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''[[Expository Theme Tune|fighting for her client!]]''
''[[Fan Service|Wearing sexy miniskirts]]''
''[[You Go, Girl!|and being self-reliant!]]"''
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She wears three-inch heels, favors [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit|form-fitting suits]] with low-cut tops and hemlines well above the knee, has a sexy voice, and can impress many a man or woman. She also charges six hundred dollars an hour and doesn't care who her clients are, just as long as they pay. No, [[High-Class Call Girl|she's not a prostitute]]; she's a lawyer. (Same difference, right? But [[Evil Lawyer Joke|we kid, we kid]].)
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This is basically about sexy lawyers, judges, etc. While such portrayals usually constitute blatant [[Fan Service]], they're occasionally justified in-universe as lawyers using their sex appeal to woo clients or sway juries.
[[Hello, Attorney!]] often tries cases involving suspects captured by a [[Fair Cop]].
Similar to [[Hello, Nurse!]], [[Hospital Hottie]] and [[Hot Scientist]]. Compare [[Hot Librarian]] (especially in visual appearance).
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** Her rival, Reiko Kujou, is just as hot.
* Teru Mikami from ''[[Death Note]]'' is a male example. Unlike most examples, while he ''is'' good looking, he's also [[Knight Templar|very]], [[Axe Crazy|VERY]] [[Psycho Supporter|unhinged]]. (Of course, this is ''[[Death Note]]'' we're talking about, so this is pretty much a given.)
* Kotoko Fujioka aka Haruhi's [[Missing Mom]] from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''.
▲== [[Comics]] ==
▲** To many, the fact that she's 6'7" and can bench a battleship... actually makes her ''[[Hot Amazon|hotter]]''.
* [[Daredevil|Matthew "Matt" Murdock]] is a male example.
* The [[X-Men]]'s lawyer, Evangeline "Vange" Whedon, is a [[Goth]] chick who [[Bare Your Midriff|bares her midriff]] more often than not.
* [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'s girlfriend in the '80s, Bernie Rosenthal.
== [[Film]] ==
* Elle, Vivian, and several other characters, in ''[[Legally Blonde]]''.
* Sally Carrera in ''[[Cars]]''. She is a [[Stealth Pun|Porsche]], after all.
* Rachel Dawes from ''[[Batman Begins]]'' (played by Katie Holmes) and ''[[The Dark Knight]]''
* Elizabeth Banks's character in ''Role Models''.
*
* Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, in ''Laws of Attraction''.
* [[Jessica Biel]]'s character in ''[[I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry]]''.
* The [[Harrison Ford]] thriller ''Presumed Innocent'' has his prosecutor character accused of the murder of his fellow attorney (and mistress), played by a smoking-hot Greta Scacchi.
* The Chinese lawyer Shen Yuelin in ''Red Corner'', played by the gorgeous Bai Ling.
* [[Amoral Attorney]] version: Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' was O-Ren's best friend and lawyer.
* Penelope Ann Miller in ''[[Other People's Money]]''.
== [[Live
* THE ENTIRE DAMN CAST of ''[[Ally McBeal]]''. Except maybe Richard Fish. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Maybe.]]
** In one episode, it is eventually [[Lampshade Hanging|revealed]] that this is actually an ''advertised selling point'' for the law firm.
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* ''Judge John Deed''
* ''[[Eli Stone]]''
* ''[[Law &
** Jamie Ross arguably tops the lot- she's played by a former [[Licence to Kill|Bond Girl]]!
** Annie Parisse's first appearance on ''L&O'' was as a stripper named Jasmine. They [[You Look Familiar|brought her back]] to play ADA Alexandra Borgia.
** Not to mention the ''[[Law
** In addition to Alex herself, all her ADAs on the short-lived spinoff ''[[Conviction]]'' were pretty telegenic.
** She only appeared in a couple of episodes, but Patricia Kent on ''[[Law
** ''[[Law & Order: Trial by
** ''[[Law
** Also [[Lampshaded]] by Alana De La Garza's ADA Connie Rubirosa in the Season 18 Episode "Tango" and the Season 20 Episode "Reality Bites", where EADA Michael Cutter takes advantage of a juror and a reality TV producer's interest in her to advance the People's case in both episodes.
* Jenna Elfman's title character on ''Courting Alex''.
* Grace Van Owen, on ''[[
* Maggie Lizer, the {{spoiler|faux-}}blind lawyer played by [[Seinfeld|Julia]] [[The New Adventures of Old Christine|Louis-]][[Christmas Cake|Dreyfus]]
* Mac, the [[Ms. Fanservice]] from ''[[JAG]]''. Harm was the male version.
** This got a nod on the show itself, with they land a big public case, and a late night TV host says something to the effect of "Colonel Mackenzie? More like Major Babe."
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* Justin, Lauren and Kate (former attorney, now mediator) all qualify from ''[[Fairly Legal]]''.
* All the main cast of ''[[Raising the Bar]]'', but Michelle and Bobbi in particular.
* Sexual harassment lawyer Mary Tate on ''[[Studio 60
* While not really lawyers, Tara and Hardison on Leverage both portray them as part of cons. Tara is even referred to as a hot librarian when the team sees her for the first time.
* French series ''[[Engrenages]]'' has two of them - male and female versions. The male one is dark-haired firm-chinned prosecutor Pierre Clément. The female one is busty and slender redhead Joséphine Karlsson, who also displays a deep [[Amoral Attorney|lack of morals]].
* Matthew Crawley on ''[[Downton Abbey]]''.
* Constance from ''[[Life]]''.
* One episode of ''[[Castle]]'' featured a lawyer who had given up law to become a dominatrix.
== [[
* [[Reba McEntire]] in her music video "Take it Back".▼
* ''Single Female Lawyer'', the cancelled [[Show Within a Show]] parody of ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' in ''[[Futurama]]''.▼
** "Single Female Lawyer, havin' lotsa sex!"▼
* Judy Ken Sebben, a.k.a. Birdgirl, of [[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]].▼
* Sally Botsford from ''[[Word Girl]]''.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** And hell, let's give the guy a break - Phoenix Wright himself [[Nice Guy|has]] [[Nice Hat|his]] [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|charms.]]
* A female character in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' with high Charisma and high ranks in conversation skills can achieve this during your trial for mass murder during the second chapter of the main campaign.
* If your daughter in ''Princess Maker 2'' has enough Intelligence, Morals and Faith among other stuff, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719001011/http://www.kkpmc.net/pm2/pm2_end.htm she can become a judge.]
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Lilly's sister Akira is a [[Bifauxnen]] version.
* [[Combat Medic|Elara Dorne]] in ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'' has shades of this; she may not be an attorney per se, but she can navigate the bureaucracy of the Republic military like no other.
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has [http://egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=71 Lisa,] attorney and legal adviser to [[Mad Scientist|Germahn Labs.]] Of course, since Doctor Germahn is a bit of a [[Dirty Old Man]], he wouldn't hire any other kind of lawyer.
== [[
▲* ''Single Female Lawyer'', the cancelled [[Show Within a Show]] parody of ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' in ''[[Futurama]]''.
▲* [[Reba McEntire]] in her music video "Take it Back".
▲** "Single Female Lawyer, havin' lotsa sex!"
▲* Judy Ken Sebben, a.k.a. Birdgirl, of [[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]].
* Janet Van Dorn from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. Also, Harley disguises herself as one in "The Man Who Killed Batman", complete with [[Sexy Spectacles]].
▲* Sally Botsford from ''[[Word Girl]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* It's probably worth mentioning (everyone else did) that Scott Brown, the new{{when}} Republican Senator from Massachusetts, posed naked in ''Cosmo'' while in law school.
* [http://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/judicial_divas_and_hotties/ There are entire blogs to men and women of the judicial bench and ranking their hotness] Some say its unprofessional. Others say they were jealous they didn't rank higher.
* Victoria Zdrok. Playboy Playmate, Penthouse Pet, selected as one of the 10 sexiest women of 2002 by ''Celebrity Sleuth Magazine'' -- and a New York Attorney.
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* Nancy Dell'Ollio
* ''[[The Real Housewives of Atlanta]]'' star Phaedra Parks
* ''[[Project Runway]]'' contestant Star Ilzhoefer
* Catherine Crier
* Judge Maria Lopez
* Jacqui Frazier
* ''[[The Amazing Race|The Amazing Race 5]]'' contestant Mirna Hindoyan
* Candace Smith. Miss Ohio USA 2003 and one of "Barkers Beauties" on ''[[The Price Is Right]]''
* The
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