I'll go first -
Constance Baker Motley
First African American female lawyer appointed to the federal judiciary.
Columbia Law School Grad, '46
Civil Rights activist who represented MLK
NY State Senator
All around bad-ass
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I'll go first -
Constance Baker Motley
First African American female lawyer appointed to the federal judiciary.
Columbia Law School Grad, '46
Civil Rights activist who represented MLK
NY State Senator
All around bad-ass
44 comments
Elle woods counts right ? haha
Jeff Sessions. Seeing all of the garbage decisions that he is making inspires me to be a more ethical and righteous attorney. Looking at all of his mistakes makes me want to do better and be better for this country.
@lindajanealang756 said:
I'm inspired by the defense attorneys (public defenders included) throughout America whose names we all might not know but who are standing between the state and the individual. I've been watching "The Staircase" and leaving aside thoughts on Mr. Peterson's guilt or innocence, the actions of the state in that case are nothing short of astonishing. Shout-out to all the defense attorneys that take on the state each and every day in America, you inspire me.
This. For those wondering how PDs can do their job, I really recommend buying one a cup of coffee and talking to them about their job. I did it and its very enlightening about the realities of our justice system.
plus whatever number we are at for the book "Just Mercy", Bryan Stevenson.
I'll add Matt Murdock to the list.
Harvey specter
Antonin Scalia.
Scalia
Inspiration: Lincoln. Self motivated, self educated, but genuinely seemed to love helping people. He supposedly had a knack for simplifying complex issues into ways people could better understand.
Bad inspiration: Michael Cohen. If that man can become a lawyer, I sure as hell can. I'm not even in law school, and I know that I should probably double check a contract and get the client to sign it if he needs to, especially if the language mandates that he really should. Gives me hope that I can't possibly be that bad.
I have also had some good discussions with lawyers on their views. For a while, I couldn't wrap my head around the idea of defending people who did heinous crimes, especially appeals. Why? Why would any decent person want to do that? One explained to me that he is not defending them, but he is defending the rule of law, and the rule of all applies to everyone. If we allow the rule of law to slide for the least of us, then what will it mean for the rest? And that made a lot of sense to me.
I'm inspired by the defense attorneys (public defenders included) throughout America whose names we all might not know but who are standing between the state and the individual. I've been watching "The Staircase" and leaving aside thoughts on Mr. Peterson's guilt or innocence, the actions of the state in that case are nothing short of astonishing. Shout-out to all the defense attorneys that take on the state each and every day in America, you inspire me.
Haven’t seen anyone say Abraham Lincoln yet. He’s at the top of my list.
Also Neil Gorsuch
The Notorious RBG!! She is goals!!
@jchamberlainf946 said:
Bad inspiration: Michael Cohen. If that man can become a lawyer, I sure as hell can. I'm not even in law school, and I know that I should probably double check a contract and get the client to sign it if he needs to, especially if the language mandates that he really should. Gives me hope that I can't possibly be that bad.
LOL! It's kind of nice going into a field already knowing that there's someone worse than you (and you haven't even started yet!). sort of gives you the freedom to relax a tiny bit. (I have the chant "There's someone worse than us! There's someone worse than us!" from an old Roseanne episode playing in my head...)
I (3 Ruth Bader Ginsburg(/p)
@jyarmo54 said:
Senator Elizabeth Warren
+1
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Maybe a little too cliché, but it's definitely Thurgood Marshall for me.
I'm currently reading Devil in the Grove, and it is astounding to hear the kind of extreme personal danger and systematic adversity he had to knowingly confront every single day in his early career as an attorney for the NAACP to set the precedent for affecting the kind of change he ultimately did later with his landmark cases and as a Supreme Court Justice.
Funny enough, I first got interested in reading more about him from LSAT RC passages haha.
Real: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Hillary Clinton
Fictional: Olivia Pope and Jessica Pearson
Real life: Ruth Ginsburg. Fiction: Atticus Finch.
Thurgood Marshall and Morris Dees
ETA: even though I know they probably don't count, I love Matlock and Atticus Finch ;)
Barack Obama. No further explanation is needed : )
@davidlee0221291 said:
Elle woods counts right ? haha
If she doesn’t like what are we even doing with our lives? :-D
@davidlee0221291 said:
Also Neil Gorsuch
And Judge Jeanine Pirro :) Recently went to a conference and heard her story. Amazing background!
@jchamberlainf946 He went to a school that uses library square footage in its rankings. That kind of says it all...
@xadrianas6x881 said:
@lindajanealang756 said:
I'm inspired by the defense attorneys (public defenders included) throughout America whose names we all might not know but who are standing between the state and the individual. I've been watching "The Staircase" and leaving aside thoughts on Mr. Peterson's guilt or innocence, the actions of the state in that case are nothing short of astonishing. Shout-out to all the defense attorneys that take on the state each and every day in America, you inspire me.
This. For those wondering how PDs can do their job, I really recommend buying one a cup of coffee and talking to them about their job. I did it and its very enlightening about the realities of our justice system.
plus whatever number we are at for the book "Just Mercy", Bryan Stevenson.
I'll add Matt Murdock to the list.
+1 Bryan Stevenson. He's so very inspiring. Ditto the PD conversation - I've done the same and agree it's super enlightening.
Yeah, definitely Matt Murdock.