Real Lawyer Reacts to Suits (full episode)
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Published 2018-09-11
Harvey and Mike. Mike and Harvey. Have you ever wanted to know if they’re good lawyers? Today we’re going to find out. Stay until the end for my Legal Accuracy Grade.
SUITS has been highly requested; probably the most requested show on this channel. I think I missed Suits the first time around because I had already graduated from law school when it came out. But I’m glad I got a chance to watch this. This week i’m deconstructing the first episode of Suits.
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I get asked a lot about whether being a practicing attorney is like being a lawyer on TV. I love watching legal movies and courtroom dramas. It's one of the reasons I decided to become a lawyer. But sometimes they make me want to pull my hair out because they are ridiculous.
Today I'm taking a break from teaching law students how to kick ass in law school to take on lawyers in the movies and on TV. While all legal movies and shows take dramatic license to make things more interesting (nobody wants to see hundreds of hours of brief writing), many of them have a grain of truth.
This is part of a continuing series of "Lawyer Reaction" videos. Got a legal movie or TV show you'd like me to critique? Let me know in the comments!
Props to Dr. Mike's Real Doctor Reacts (goo.gl/qF6Hza) and Wired's Technique Critique (goo.gl/C8dz2U) for the inspiration.
All clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 1:16-cv-03081-KBF (SDNY 2017).
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All Comments (21)
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Check out my reaction to The Good Wife, My Cousin Vinny, a Few Good Men, Law & Order and tons more: goo.gl/HxaaNk Also, if you’re looking for a new suit, I HIGHLY recommend BlackLapel (all my suits are custom BlackLapel): go.magik.ly/ml/f78n/
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If they made suits just like real life then it would take 9 seasons to win 1 case
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Legal Eagle: "Good lawyers don't lie" Harvey Specter: "It's not lying, it's called bluffing."
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I love suits, but I have never got over how the characters look at legal documents for two seconds and already are able to make insightful observations about its content.
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the ironic thing here is that, according to this video, Mike Ross was the least fraudulent person in this firm
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"lawyers don't lie" I dunno, that sounds just like something a liar would say
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"all these lawyers should be disbarred" laughs in later seasons
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Law is just a backdrop for suits . Main themes are loyalty and respect and power
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I taught LSAT for years and even owned an LSAT prep service before I actually went to law school. I cannot tell you how many times I was offered money to take the LSAT for someone (and it was almost always the parents offering, not the student, and the standard offer was $25K, in 2001-2004). So it's kind of absurd that Mike is doing it for a couple hundred bucks. But I always thought that when the guy tried to stiff Mike and says "Call the cops," Mike's proper response would have been, "Cops? No, I'll call LSAC, and your law career will be over before you even go to law school. After all, YOU want to go to law school. I don't. So LSAC can't do anything to me. They can and will end you." Or something like that.
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Him:"He's committing fraud" Me:"First time huh?"
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Lol, so basically Harvey would have been disbarred every episode
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As someone who has watched the whole show, it’s quite interesting to see you sort of predict and explain the exact things that would very much soon become a major issue for the characters and essentially - the driving points of the show.
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One thing i can always count on about Suits is that whenever someone is about to leave a room, they always stop at the door and look back to say one more comment before leaving 😂
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"This firm isn't going to exist for very long." Yes, that's the whole story.
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Me when I first watched this episode of suits: "oh man that's such a good strategy" Stone: "That is bad lawyering" Me: "oh yeah that's bad lawyering"
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Suits might not be legally accurate, but its entertaining as hell. And it's cool to know which things were surprisingly accurate. Like the interviews.
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I didn't go to law school. However, after watching suits I'm positive and confident I can represent my self.
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A real lawyer watching suits first episode: This firm is not gonna exist for much longer... Everyone who has seen suits: If u knew...
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I knew that lawyers got suits, but I never dreamed I'd see the day where suits got lawyered.
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The Harvey disbarred counter is so funny, considering that 50% of the things Harvey does could get him disbarred. 😂
