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See also [[Informed Self Diagnosis]], the equivalent trope for medical doctors.
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== Comic Books ==
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* William Garrow in ''[[Garrows Law]]'' does this during his potentially ruinous criminal conversation trial at the King's Bench. {{spoiler|He manages it successfully to the point where, although the jury find in favour of Sir Arthur Hill, Hill is only awarded damages of one shilling.}}
* One ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' episode featured Kenan suing a tuna cannery for 10 million dollars. Wanting to keep all the money to himself rather than paying a percentage of it to any lawyer, he represented himself. Assuming a lawyer could have persuaded Kenan to settle for one million dollars as the cannery proposed, Kenan was really a fool in that case.
* ''[[Married With Children (TV)|Married With Children]]'': Al was sued when his children caused a car crash and he decided he didn't need a lawyer. The judge ruled against him and he was forced to pay for damages. To avoid being arrested for not paying, Al decided to go into hiding but was ran over by someone who, according to the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], paid Al's debt as a way to settle.
** In another episode, a burglar broke into Al's house and Al punched him. The burglar sued Al for $50,000 and Al considered the case too much of a [[Frivolous Lawsuit]] to hire a lawyer. When Al lost, he decided to make it $100,000 by punching the thief again, which allowed Al to sue the thief, claiming to have broken his hand at the thief's face.
* ''[[Shark]]'': Sebastian Stark prosecuted a serial killer who decided to defend himself and got [[Off On a Technicality]] because the key witness died before he had a chance to cross-examine her and another technicality prohibited Stark from proving the defendant induced her into suicide. The killer became his own client again when he was accused of killing another woman. He was convicted but Stark told him {{spoiler|the victim had actually killed herself and he made it look like a homicide just to get him convicted for it.}}
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