But maybe good lawyers have to be a little schizophrenic. I see that as part of the nobility of the profession. The goal of the practice of law should be to wield power effectively towards the goal of justice. I don't like to think of myself as being in the business of discouraging applications to law school. There aren't many.
Film often paints lawyers as vultures or fools.
Even a heroic lawyer like James Woods in True Believer is shown to be an extremely neurotic, very incomplete human being. I guess we can always fall back on Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird , but that's long ago and far away. It's easy to see Erin's virtues. She has the passion and anger at injustice necessary to achieve results in a society stacked against the underdog. But passion and anger are not enough to win, as her sorry job history, until she works for Ed, demonstrates all too convincingly.