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How to be a Lawyer: 3 Law School Films for Law Students

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  Note: All copyrighted materials belong to their respective owners. Their inclusion here is for elucidation of certain points and not to claim ownership or misappropriate the said materials . Introduction Films on courtroom and other legal dramas are plenty – To Kill A Mockingbird, The Trial, A Few Good Men, My Cousin Vinny, to name a few. But films on law schools and actual hardships/triumphs of every law students are very few. The purpose of this paper is to present to all law students films that they can relate and, hopefully, learn from it. All films considered here were about the life of students in law schools in their daily challenges and victories. The Paper Chase Coming out in 1973, this the first movie that shows the struggle of a 1 st year law student at Harvard Law School, one of the toughest law schools of America until now. This was based on the novel of the same title, written by a Harvard Law Alumna which chronicles his dai