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* In ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', Clark's boss is introduced with a team of yes-men marching lockstep behind him (with foley marching sound effects).
* In [[John Grisham]]'s ''[[The Rainmaker]]'', [[Naive Newcomer]] attorney Rudy Baylor has an [[Oh Crap]] moment when he meets the [[David Versus Goliath|opposing legal team]].
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* ''[[The Supernaturalist]]'' features combat lawyers known as Paralegals, causing a character to remark "I liked it better when they fought with briefcases".
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* The law firm of Wolfram & Hart from ''[[Angel]]''.
* One episode of ''[[The Defenders (series)|The Defenders]]'' (the 2010 series with lawyers, not [[The Defenders|that comic book series]]) has one episode's bad guys use their Army of Lawyers as a blatant show of force. There are so many of them that when they sit down at their ridiculously long table they need two row of chairs.
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* Parodied in one ''[[Far Side]]'' comic, where an explorer at the edge of an island jungle is confronted with a group of men in suits with briefcases.
{{quote|'''caption:''' Wellington held out some beads and other trinkets, but the islanders had sent their fiercest lawyers- some of whom were chanting, "Sue him! Sue him!"}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.boiledbeans.net/2008/03/27/yet-another-bluish-question/ IBM's lawyers have been compared] to the ''Nazgûl'' (of [[The Lord of the Rings|LoTR]] fame).
* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20130626120719/http://www.endbudgetgridlock.com/Websites/stopthebudgetgames/Images/P25_BriefcaseArmy.mp3 radio commercial] aired prior to the 2010 November elections in California warned voters that Proposition 25 was being fought by politicians and their "briefcase army" (with appropriate marching sound effects in the background).
* [[J. K. Rowling]] is said to have an Army of Lawyers in [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2100186.ece this Times Online article].
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