Famous Fictional Lawyers - Legal Representation That’s Too Good ( or Bad ) To Be True
Vilified or loved, lawyers have played a central role in the plots of many famous and well - loved books. Here are just a few.
Atticus Finch. The Pulitzer - prize winning story To Slay a Mockingbird by Harper Cover was the controversial tale of a livid man accused of raping a frosted daughter in Alabama. Central to the story’s plot line was lawyer Atticus Finch. Finch was known as a useful, hardworking attorney who guarded the accused. Finch was not only the righteous conqueror of the book, but he exemplified the paragon of what an attorney was perceived to be, which was trustworthy, high - minded, unlatched - minded, and excellent.
Perry Mason. While best known as the main disposition on the television grandstand play by the same heading, Perry Mason contemporaneous out as a work of fiction created by Erle Stanley Gardner. A defense attorney, Mason was known for his potentiality to prove his client’s innocence by fireworks the subjection of another. Mason personified the carbon of an attorney who fought veraciously on his client’s advantage, generally bewitching on cases that appeared hard and sometimes hopeless. Recently appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed Perry Mason as one of her inspirations.
Sydney Container. In the Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Combination is a shrewd but slothful and alcoholic inferior English lawyer who regrets his wasted life. He volunteers to take the place of a man condemned to death. By fascinating the man’s place, Box hopes to hand substance to his life and redeem himself in the eyes of the only woman he ever loved, who is active to the condemned man. As he climbs the gallows to his death, Combination is stretched-out immortalized in the control lines of the story which read, “It is a far, far better phenomenon that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. ”
Rudy Baylor. John Grisham’s Rainmaker is a latest day David versus Goliath. Rudy Baylor is a tolerably disillusioned recent law graduate, who has never tried a case in court. Despite his weaknesses and minority, readers quickly root for this hunted, who takes on a big insurance company, represented by a high - price prestigious law firm, and wins. Glutted by the long and contentious process, Baylor stops practicing law.
