lawyers in pop culture
We all had ringside seats for some unbridled lawyer bashing during the recent presidential campaign. This article discusses the downward spiraling of “the lawyer in pop culture” from demigod to degenerate. According to the piece, today’s negative film and TV portrayals of lawyers “are just symptoms of the precipitous drop in the public's perception of the legal profession over the past 25 years.” The writer gives us some food for thought at the end of the piece: What will happen to the legal profession if the pernicious celluloid lawyer becomes so indelible in the public mind that consumers, jurors and others can’t separate fiction from fact in dealing with real world practitioners?
