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* One U-Drive It mission in ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'' has you driving an accident victim to an unscrupulous lawyer's office instead of straight to the hospital, so they can prepare a lawsuit.
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* One U-Drive It mission in ''VideoGame/SimCity 4'' ''VideoGame/SimCity4'' has you driving an accident victim to an unscrupulous lawyer's office instead of straight to the hospital, so they can prepare a lawsuit.
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* Roland T. Flakfizer from ''Film/BrainDonors'' is a ''literal'' Ambulance Chaser -- his very first appearance in the film[[note]]our image at the top of this page[[/note]] features him chasing an ambulance ''on foot'' to the scene of an automobile accident, where he immediately begins to yell about the impending lawsuits he plans to file.
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* Roland T. Flakfizer from ''Film/BrainDonors'' is a ''literal'' Ambulance Chaser -- his very first appearance in the film[[note]]our film (which served as the page image at the top of this page[[/note]] for a time) features him chasing an ambulance ''on foot'' to the scene of an automobile accident, where he immediately begins to yell about the impending lawsuits he plans to file.
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* There is Joe Addler from ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', who has ads on TV about lawsuits concerning whiplash damage and taking on frivolous sexual harassment cases. In one episode, when asked if he had ever been jailed for contempt of court, he answers that he "believe[s] that was among the charges, yes."
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* There is Joe Addler Adler from ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', who has ads on TV about lawsuits concerning whiplash damage and taking on frivolous sexual harassment cases. In one episode, when asked if he had ever been jailed for contempt of court, he answers that he "believe[s] that was among the charges, yes."
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** In ''Literature/TheClient'', Mark Sway accompanies his younger brother to the emergency roomand sees a lawyer named Gil Peck trying to pick up work from other patients. One of them grouses that there are more lawyers than doctors in the hospital.
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** In ''Literature/TheClient'', Mark Sway accompanies his younger brother to the emergency roomand room and sees a lawyer named Gil Peck trying to pick up work from other patients. One In the [[FilmOfTheBook film version]], one of them grouses that there are more lawyers than doctors in the hospital.
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* Kipper Garth, a RecurringCharacter in Creator/CarlHiaasen's novels, is described by the protagonist (his brother-in-law) as ''"a sleazeball ambulance-chaser."'' In the purest sense of the term, Garth doesn't actually handle any litigation himself - he simply advertises his services and farms out the clients to practicing attorneys in exchange for a cut of the settlement. He later adopts a scam that involves sending scouts around Miami looking for wheelchair accessibility violations and threatening to sue by recruiting a sympathetic disabled person.
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* ''Literature/TheRainmaker'' by John Grisham has examples where lawyers creep around accidents, and hospitals to pick up insurance cases.
** A particularly noteworthy scene involves protagonist Rudy's friend and advisor Deck waking him up in the middle of the night with no explanation, and taking him to the scene of a horrible accident: a riverboat sank and the police are retrieving bodies from the water. The police announce to the crowd that they've identified the body of a particular person, causing a wail of despair from the deceased's family. ''And then the lawyers strike'', trying to get close to the grieving family and offering their business cards. Rudy watches all this, stunned and disgusted, and then watches Deck do the same thing. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Rudy runs away into the night]], and it marks the real turning point of his disillusionment with the practice of law.
** A particularly noteworthy scene involves protagonist Rudy's friend and advisor Deck waking him up in the middle of the night with no explanation, and taking him to the scene of a horrible accident: a riverboat sank and the police are retrieving bodies from the water. The police announce to the crowd that they've identified the body of a particular person, causing a wail of despair from the deceased's family. ''And then the lawyers strike'', trying to get close to the grieving family and offering their business cards. Rudy watches all this, stunned and disgusted, and then watches Deck do the same thing. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Rudy runs away into the night]], and it marks the real turning point of his disillusionment with the practice of law.
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* Appears in several works by Creator/JohnGrisham:
** In ''Literature/TheClient'', Mark Sway accompanies his younger brother to the emergency roomand sees a lawyer named Gil Peck trying to pick up work from other patients. One of them grouses that there are more lawyers than doctors in the hospital.
** ''Literature/TheRainmaker''by John Grisham has examples where lawyers creep around accidents, and hospitals to pick up insurance cases.
** Aa particularly noteworthy scene involves involving protagonist Rudy's friend and advisor Deck waking him up in the middle of the night with no explanation, and taking him to the scene of a horrible accident: a riverboat sank and the police are retrieving bodies from the water. The police announce to the crowd that they've identified the body of a particular person, causing a wail of despair from the deceased's family. ''And then the lawyers strike'', trying to get close to the grieving family and offering their business cards. Rudy watches all this, stunned and disgusted, and then watches Deck do the same thing. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Rudy runs away into the night]], and it marks the real turning point of his disillusionment with the practice of law.
** In ''Literature/TheClient'', Mark Sway accompanies his younger brother to the emergency roomand sees a lawyer named Gil Peck trying to pick up work from other patients. One of them grouses that there are more lawyers than doctors in the hospital.
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Get into an accident that you caused? Want a FrivolousLawsuit and want it ''now''? The Ambulance Chaser is your man!
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Get into an accident that you caused? Suspect your morbid obesity is someone else's fault? Want a FrivolousLawsuit and want it ''now''? The Ambulance Chaser is your man!
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Get into an accident that you caused? Suspect your morbid obesity is someone else's fault? Want a FrivolousLawsuit and want it ''now''? The Ambulance Chaser is your man!
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If he's losing, expect lots and lots of motions and requests that serve no real purpose other than to cause you to waste so much time responding to all of them that you'll gladly move to settle just to get him off your ass. If he wants to settle, he'll sue everyone with even the slightest connection to the defendant in order to drag them in and put as much pressure as possible on the main target. Did he lose? He's going to appeal and grasp at every last straw to make it stick, and if he's a ''really'' sore loser, he may try to interfere with the livelihood of anyone who he blames for the defeat, or may publicly accuse those parties of corruption or heinous personal misconduct.
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If he's losing, expect lots and lots of motions and requests that serve no real purpose other than to cause you to waste so much time responding to all of them that you'll gladly move to settle just to get him off your ass. If he wants to settle, he'll sue everyone with even the slightest connection to the defendant in order to drag them in and put as much pressure as possible on the main target. Did he lose? He's going to appeal and grasp at every last straw to make it stick, and if he's a ''really'' sore loser, {{sore loser}}, he may try to interfere with the livelihood of anyone who he blames for the defeat, or may publicly accuse those parties of corruption or heinous personal misconduct.
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* A 2022 ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' strip has Trump advisor Trff Bmzklfrpz hanging out in an emergency room watching for literal examples of this trope, to recruit them for Trump's legal team.
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* A 2022 ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' strip has Trump [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] advisor Trff Bmzklfrpz hanging out in an emergency room watching for literal examples of this trope, to recruit them for Trump's legal team.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheStrangerhood'': Dutchmiller is all but stated to be this during [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands his brief stint as an attorney]]. His reaction to hearing an ambulance go by is asking his current client if he wants to chase it with him.
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* The werewolf lawyers in ''Barking'' by Creator/TomHolt do, in fact, have an instinctive tendency to chase ambulances.
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* Stanley Hastings from the ''Literature/StanleyHastings'' series is a self-described ambulance chaser.
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Note that within the legal profession, calling someone an ambulance chaser is equivalent to calling him/her bottom-feeding scum. The "polite" term (in North America at any rate) is "plaintiff's lawyer" or "personal-injury lawyer/attorney"...but even that doesn't do much to hide the disdain of pretty much every other form of lawyer for them. If a legal professional specifically refers to an attorney as an "ambulance chaser", they're straight-up calling them an asshole. Still, while they may not exactly be the most upstanding members of the legal profession, they stay around because the cases that they take, while seemingly asinine and ridiculous (and they very well may be), still have some basic legal ground, and no smart attorney is going to take a truly frivolous case. Doing so counts as barratry, and attorneys who repeatedly take ridiculous cases with no legal merit can and frequently will get suspended for long enough to effectively shut them out of the legal profession, or disbarred in cases of truly extreme misconduct or a lengthy history of being a menace to the profession. Contingent fee setups also offer a strong disincentive to accepting questionable cases, as the prospect of eating the cost of an unsuccessful case is something that gives most attorneys a very good reason to make a solid inquiry into the facts of the case before choosing to pursue it. If it's either complete bullshit or has no legal backing, they ''will'' decline unless they really want to get an entry on their public disciplinary record (or they think they can quickly settle it, which often leads right back to the former).
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Note that within the legal profession, calling someone an ambulance chaser is equivalent to calling him/her them bottom-feeding scum. The "polite" term (in North America at any rate) is "plaintiff's lawyer" or "personal-injury lawyer/attorney"...but even that doesn't do much to hide the disdain of pretty much every other form of lawyer for them. If a legal professional specifically refers to an attorney as an "ambulance chaser", they're straight-up calling them an asshole. Still, while they may not exactly be the most upstanding members of the legal profession, they stay around because the cases that they take, while seemingly asinine and ridiculous (and they very well may be), still have some basic legal ground, and no smart attorney is going to take a truly frivolous case. Doing so counts as barratry, and attorneys who repeatedly take ridiculous cases with no legal merit can and frequently will get suspended for long enough to effectively shut them out of the legal profession, or disbarred in cases of truly extreme misconduct or a lengthy history of being a menace to the profession. Contingent fee setups also offer a strong disincentive to accepting questionable cases, as the prospect of eating the cost of an unsuccessful case is something that gives most attorneys a very good reason to make a solid inquiry into the facts of the case before choosing to pursue it. If it's either complete bullshit or has no legal backing, they ''will'' decline unless they really want to get an entry on their public disciplinary record (or they think they can quickly settle it, which often leads right back to the former).
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* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' TV movie ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm03TheRiverOfSouls The River of Souls]]'' has Captain Lochley and the station sued for harassment by the operator of a holographic brothel. The lawyer he hires is referred to as one of these.
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* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' TV movie ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm03TheRiverOfSouls ''[[Film/BabylonFiveTheRiverOfSouls The River of Souls]]'' has Captain Lochley and the station sued for harassment by the operator of a holographic brothel. The lawyer he hires is referred to as one of these.
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* Garrett Price, the attorney in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic" that Monk and Natalie meet during a traffic stoppage following a car accident. Price actually solicits Natalie when she's sitting in the back of an ambulance, getting treated for a broken arm. He reappears in "Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus".
** In "Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man," when Monk and Sharona stop by a crime scene they happened to see while driving by, Stottlemeyer asks Monk if he's chasing ambulances.
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** Garrett Price, the attorney inthe ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. "[[Recap/MonkS3E13MrMonkGetsStuckInTraffic Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic" that Traffic]]" who Monk and Natalie meet during a traffic stoppage following a car accident. Price actually solicits Natalie when she's sitting in the back of an ambulance, getting treated for a broken arm. He reappears in "Mr. "[[Recap/MonkS6E10MrMonkAndTheManWhoShotSantaClaus Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus".
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** In "Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man," when Monk and Sharona stop by a crime scene they happened to see while driving by, Stottlemeyer asks Monk if he's chasing ambulances.
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* An episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' dealt with an unscrupulous lawyer being held in a small town which metes out DisproportionateRetribution through its court system. The lawyer was going to be given ten lashes for having too many numbers on her license plate. [[spoiler: As a FateWorseThanDeath, she winds up replacing the defense attorney... and is going to remain as such until someone from the outside world stumbles into town and replaces her.]]
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* Doug Savage on ''WesternAnimation/ScienceCourt'' could be considered a kid-friendly version of this. Nearly every case he takes on, his client turns out to either be expecting too much of the product or service provided by the defendant, or is personally responsible for what went wrong. However, he always seems to genuinely believe his client is in the right... because he's just as ignorant of basic science as they are.
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