History Main / ArmyofLawyers

* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'': One flashback in "Nelson v. Murdock" depicts when Matt and Foggy were interning at Landman & Zack. We see them sitting on the legal team, who take up the length of a boardroom table, representing Roxxon, who are bringing damages against a whistleblower who violated his confidentiality agreement to report substandard working conditions to his doctor that caused him to contract cancer. Matt can tell from his heightened senses that the man is telling the truth, and decides that he doesn't want to be protecting a corporation from someone who really needs help, and convinces Foggy to go with him and start Nelson & Murdock.
* ''Series/IronFist2017'': In the arbitration for Danny Rand to reclaim his identity and his ownership shares in Rand Enterprises, one side of the boardroom table is taken up by Ward and Joy Meachum plus their in-house counsel, while the other side is just Danny, repped by Jeri Hogarth.

** In "Something Stupid", when Huell is arrested for assaulting a plainclothes cop (he hit the guy with a bag of sandwiches, not realizing he was a police officer), the prosecutor's office wants to throw the book at him per the controversial three-strikes laws of New Mexico. As a favor to Jimmy, Kim orchestrates a massive scam to strong-arm the DA into accepting a lenient plea offer. Her first step is to get the ADA riled up, which she does by showing up at the courthouse accompanied by three associate attorneys from Schweikart & Cokely. Kim pitches Ericsen an offer of several months probation for Huell. Ericsen refuses. Which prompts the associates to all file discovery motions to collect evidence backing Huell's story, and Kim to then add that she's looking into civil rights litigation on Huell's behalf. Ericsen dismisses the associates, and privately chides Kim, warning her that these "shock-and-awe" tactics won't sway her. This puts Ericsen and Kim at odds, as Kim waits for the table to be set for the next stage (a manufactured groundswell of public support, which is Jimmy's part in the scam).

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In his debut, Dale "The Whale" Beiderbeck smugly warns the cops investigating him that the first 20 numbers on his speed dial are all lawyers.

* In ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', Clark's boss is introduced with a team of yes-men marching lockstep behind him (with foley marching sound effects). The scene ends with a gag where Clark wishes Merry Christmas to each of them in turn, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers finishing with a "Happy Channukah"]].

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* ''Literature/TheSupernaturalist'' features combat lawyers known as Paralegals, causing a character to remark "I liked it better when they fought with briefcases".

* Similarly, this was the notorious Westboro Baptist Church's biggest alibi in their heyday. Nearly every member (including their now-deceased patriarch Fred Phelps) is/was a practicing lawyer who knew [[LoopholeAbuse exactly which of their rights they were within and which laws they technically weren't breaking when staging flagrantly bigoted and homophobic demonstrations]]. It also meant that they would know exactly which laws ''you'' were in violation of if you were you react violently to their hate speech/bullying ''and'' could sue you and win if they wanted.

* Similarly, this was is the notorious Westboro Baptist Church's biggest alibi in their heyday. Nearly every member (including their now-deceased patriarch Fred Phelps) is/was a practicing lawyer who knew [[LoopholeAbuse exactly which of their rights they were within and which laws they technically weren't breaking when staging flagrantly bigoted and homophobic demonstrations]]. It also meant that they would know exactly which laws ''you'' were in violation of if you were you react violently to their hate speech/bullying ''and'' could sue you and win if they wanted.

-->-- '''Koga Shuko''', ''Film/DoubleDragon''

* One of the more common and less questionable responses of Scientology to any media/public criticisms of them, as evidenced by the existence of the ChurchOfHappyology trope.

** They may not be literal lawyers, but Lord Vetinari occasionally gets a similar visual effect by having a couple of his [[TheMenInBlack "dark clerks"]] act as LivingProp's when he needs to have a few stern words with someone.

-->'''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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* In the ChristmasEpisode of JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme, John has just finished the opening line of 'Twas the Night Before Ramadan when he is interrupted by the sound of a door opening and several voices shouting "Stop!"

->''You think ''I'm'' bad, wait 'til you meet'' '''''my lawyers'''''''!''

* Reference in at least one episode of ''Series/MurderSheWrote'', when, being confronted, the episode's villain challenges Fletcher over the "battalion of lawyers" she can expect. Fletcher's answer is having -- accurately -- noticed a subtle thing the killer did at one point that inspired the victim to take a pill. The tone of the scene is that and other details like it leave the killer defeated.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': When Huell is arrested for assaulting a plainclothes cop (he hit the guy with a bag of sandwiches, not realizing he was a police officer), the prosecutor's office wants to throw the book at him per the controversial three-strikes laws of New Mexico. As a favor to Jimmy, Kim orchestrates a massive scam to strong-arm the DA into accepting a lenient plea offer. Her first step is to get the ADA riled up, which she does by showing up at the courthouse accompanied by three associate attorneys from Schweikart & Cokely. Kim pitches Ericsen an offer of several months probation for Huell. Ericsen refuses. Which prompts the associates to all file discovery motions to collect evidence backing Huell's story, and Kim to then add that she's looking into civil rights litigation on Huell's behalf. Ericsen dismisses the associates, and privately chides Kim, warning her that these "shock-and-awe" tactics won't sway her. This puts Ericsen and Kim at odds, as Kim waits for the table to be set for the next stage (a manufactured groundswell of public support, which is Jimmy's part in the scam).

* TruthInTelevision: Real-life EvilDebtCollector Portfolio Recovery Associates have been known to call upon their Army of [[InsistentTerminology Custodians of Records]] [[note]]A term the company likely never researched prior to using, as it is normally used for the person designated to be responsible for compliance with the terms of the United States Code, Title 18, Section 2257 which regulates the document retention requirements for pornographic films[[/note]] in helping to sue debtors as a way of intimidating/forcing them into paying off debts, some of which is old debt that likely has expired.

* TruthInTelevision: Real-life EvilDebtCollector Portfolio Recovery Associates have been known to call upon their Army of [[InsistentTerminology Custodians of Records]] in helping to sue debtors as a way of intimidating them into paying off debts, some of which is old debt that likely has expired.