Television And The Legal Profession Of Television

When one thinks about powerful lawyers in TV Shows or movies the first people that tend to come to mind are men. When you think of famous or popular movies that feature lawyers, you think of A Few Good Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, or And Justice for All, just to name a few, all with male leads. When you think of popular movies that feature female lawyers those that come to mind are Legally Blonde or Erin Brockavich, and Brockavich was a paralegal, not a lawyer. But when you think of TV Shows that feature or star female lawyers the list becomes longer and with more distinguished roles. There is Jessica Pearson from Suits the managing partner at her law firm, Annalise Keating from How to get Away with Murder that†¦show more content†¦It says a lot about how female lawyers are portrayed in films that in one of the most famous legal films starring a woman, she is working for a man and not even a lawyer. Another film that comes to mind when one thinks about famous l egal films starring women is Legally Blonde. This film star Reese Witherspoon who plays the ditzy blonde Elle Woods who decides to go to Harvard Law School simply to follow her ex-boyfriend who is going there. The very premise of the movie does nothing to present the female lead as a strong character because she wears pink and is part of a sorority and the only reason she is going to Harvard Law School is because she wants to win back her well off ex-boyfriend. This completely under plays how intelligent one has to be to get into Harvard Law School because you need a 172 or more on the LSAT and that fact that she is able to get such a score suggests that she is intelligent, but she is presented as an air head. Not a very powerful female model to follow. Yet some how, this movie and Erin Brockavich are presented as some of the movies that young professional women need to watch by Levo.com. There is also sometimes the situation in moves like A Few Good Men in which Lieutenant Com mander Joanne Galloway, who was originally given the murder trial, was passed over for first chair and the case