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Films Featuring Women Lawyers

A Few Good Men

A Time To Kill

The Accused

Adam's Rib

...And Justice For All

Class Action

The Client

Erin Brockovich

First Monday in October

Guilty as Sin

House of Sand and Fog

I Am Sam

Jagged Edge

Kramer vs. Kramer

L.A. Law

Legal Eagles

Legally Blonde

Losing Isaiah

The Merchant of Venice

Music Box

Philadelphia

Reversible Errors

Suspect

Two Weeks' Notice

In the article, Women Lawyers in Celluloid: Why Hollywood Skirts the Truth, 25 U. Tol. L. Rev. 955, 963, n. 34 (1995), Carole Shapiro lists the following films in which women lawyers have a speaking part: Adam's Rib (1949), Tell It to the Judge (1949), The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), ... And Justice For All (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Second Thoughts (1982), The Cradle Will Fall (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Legal Eagles (1986), Suspect (1987), The Big Easy (1987), Physical Evidence (1986), The Accused (1988), Music Box (1989), Presumed Innocent (1990), Wild Orchid (1990), Class Action (1991), Defenseless (1991), Love Crimes (1991), Other People's Money (1991), A Few Good Men (1992), Guilty as Sin (1993), and Philadelphia (1993).

Two other films from the 1930s are not well known, Shapiro notes, because they are not yet available on video or DVD: Career Woman (1936) and The Lady Objects (1938).

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