Real Lawyer Reacts to Crazy Ex Girlfriend - Don’t Be A Lawyer! (LegalEagle)
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- To be, or not be … a lawyer, that is the question.
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Lyrics for the music video:
Twenty years old, pretty smart kid
Didn't know what I wanted to do
So I took the LSAT
And just like that
I got accepted at Glendale U
Everyone said it was a real safe bet
A prestigious and lucrative vocation
So I set off on a journey
To become an attorney
Without a moment's hesitation
But here's some free advice I'm givin'
When it comes to decidin' what to do for a livin'
Don't be a lawyer!
Don't do it!
Quickest way to ruin your life
Don't be a lawyer!
Not worth it!
It'll leave you dead inside
The job is inherently crappy
That's why you've never met a lawyer who's happy
It's a guaranteed soul destroyer
Don't be a lawyer
Law school debt
Daily regret
Is that really what you dreamed as a kid?
Or did you hope one day
That you'd find a way
To spend four years workin' on a pharmaceutical company's merger with another pharmaceutical company?
Your only expertise
Is runnin' up fees
Speakin' legalese like a dick
But it's not too late
To avoid this fate
Find any other job to pick
Sure, your parents might think you're a failure
But no one's ever said, "First, let's kill all the tailors."
Don't be a lawyer!
I'm serious, it really, really sucks
Don't be a lawyer!
No one you work with looks like Ally McBeal
There are so many other professions
That don't turn you into Jeff Sessions
Just say no to the lawyer employer
No, don't be a lawyer
What about human rights law?
No money, no, no money
Environmental law?
No money, even less money
Immigration law?
No money, plus it's a bummer
Okay, but what if you make it to the Supreme Court?
It'd be great to be on the Supreme Court
But you'll never be on the Supreme Court
There's truly no chance of that happenin'
The preceding song in no way reflects the views of CBS and the CW network
Ah, screw it
See? Don't be a lawyer!
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Pls do one on tort law it would be tortful of u
No. Laws schools are already producing to many graduates.
Love your videos 😄
Yawn* oh look another LegalEagle video. Time to do the same thing I always do. Lol What sort of protection or consequences are the main characters looking at in Black Mirror Seasom 3, episode 3?
Oh boy!
You are too much streching for content. It's a 3 min vedio not worth 17 min vedio
"They clearly did their research about what it's like being a lawyer"
_man jumps out of a window_
Higher rates than background rate for mental health problems substance abuse.
man jumps out of a window
They clearly did their research about what it's like being a lawyer
my uncle is a real lawyer. it is nothing like TV or movies.
My first thought was the urban legend about the man running into the "unbreakable" window (to show it was unbreakable) and falling out when it came loose instead. Apparently, it really happened, and the guy "testing" the window was a lawyer.
The rates for that are the highest in the country for doctors and then lawyers. Ironically, those who want to and are most likely to save your life are often those who are least likely to save their own.
That said, the CDC does suggest there are some more potentially likely cases in other professions. Here are some of the seemingly conflicting sources:
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/31/634217947/to-prevent-doctor-suicides-medical-industry-rethinks-how-doctors-work
onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.rit.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02765.x (see abstract)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00048670903487191?rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&journalCode=anpa
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/pdfs/mm6745a1-H.pdf
Notes on this one:
- limited to violent deaths
- Table 2 percentages do not represent percentages of a profession but rather percentages of a dataset
- For actual comparability investigate percentages of people in each profession - You'd be surprised how few physicians there are compared to other professions
Show: Don’t be a lawyer, it will leave you dead inside.
Actual lawyer:..... those are very interesting suits.
Show: No lawyer is actually happy
Actual lawyer: Now that blackboard is really something
Artemis Wolf 😂!
Show: "It will leave you dead inside"
Actual Lawyer: Indochino ad
checks out fine to me
Artemis Wolf I nannies for a family that told me to never be a lawyer and they would never let their children be lawyers because it’s such a miserable job with such long long hours. Like they made amazing money and they would tell you that but they were also very open that the job sucked lol
He addresses it at the end. He has never regretted becoming a lawyer. Also, he clearly enjoys being a lawyer. You can tell when he discusses the law.
This is so weird for me tbh. Maybe it depends on country and person. My prof who is a CPA Lawyer when talk about her job, although she said it's hard but had fun with messy legal issues of family xD
Not gonna lie: "I'm going to get some very well-worded angry emails" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard you say.
for real, this is funny like 'dermatoligists and dentists aren't doctors.' jokes are funny- i've never heard one that got old.
@@Silentbob1494 Like Dr Mike said: I wonder what dermatologists do when they're in a plane and the flight attendants ask: "Is there a doctor here?"
@@rebeccahicks2392 what do opthalmologists do?
@@cornoc Eye surgeon
@@wvu05 no, what do they do in that scenario bro
"Don't be a lawyer" is the only career advice my father ever gave me. And he's a lawyer.
lol
what are you going to be then
my mom said the same
Same
"don't be a teacher" was my mum's advice. You guessed it! She was a teacher
did you become one?
Objection! Their suits are perfect for the style of song they’re imitating; early 90’s r&b. New Edition, Jonny Gill, Boyz 2 men. I argue a fitted suit would detract from the show’s immersion.
I thought it was supposed to be more New Jack Swing than R&B?
@@Hermititis Bobby Brown "Every Little Step I Take". You're on point!
Sustained!
(I'm not actually the judge).
I got a real Paula Abdul vibe, it feels like a clear homage to Straight Up. Maybe a side of Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam.
@@delia9277 There was a riff in there that sounded like it was straight out of a Paula Abdul song. (Straight up, I think). I heard it too!
OBJECTION: The situation's a lot more nuanced than that.
anaphysik C R A Z Y...
anaphysik crazy ex-girlfriend!!
@@shaniap2064 BLAM! (fast forward a season :D)
@@TashJansson we hope this helps!
@@thekaycave So let's go back to other Rebecca
Guys sings "that's why you never met a lawyer who's happy" LegalEagle is utterly silent xD You ok there buddy?
The only happy Lawyer is a heartless corporate Lawyer. Lol.
You think he's doing TH-cam because he needs the money? Lets be real lol
@@TenApplesforTime He’s doing it to reassure himself that he made a difference
John Smith and in doing so he made a difference! go him whoop whoop
Anyone got the time stamp
VERY scary that the lawyer jobs that pay well are petty pharmaceutical companies and the ones that don't pay well are like... helping disadvantaged people
Scary, but not at all surprising
No one payed you to be a good person. Extraction of surplus labour and all that.
Not to be a communist, but I think there may be something wrong with our current economic & political system and the behavior/labor it incentivizes
that's how it is with most noble professions at the start. Doctors (at the start), EMTs, Paramedics, Firefighters, Nurses, Police Officers, and some Lawyers, don't get paid that well and it sucks.
This guy singing the song literally goes back to being a lawyer like the episode after this song because he prefers it to managing a pretzel shop lol
Right, and then Rebecca buys the pretzel shop and gives up being a lawyer.
No, he goes back because rebecca got his franchise shut down by using unapproved recipes so he begrudgingly went back to the law firm
kazoomaster and because he missed tim
1.5kth like
Anna Richardson we all miss Tim.
“I don’t want you to think transactional lawyers aren’t real lawyers. I mean, they’re not, but still...”
Oof, that’s a deep cut.
yeah. i'm sure he pissed someone off with that one.
I Love his shade🤣
I just love the “what are they gonna do? sue me? They can’t.” That was just the cherry on top
Cut me to the quick.
A few hours later he gets called about being the main lawyer in a multimillion dollar lawsuit against himself.
"What are [Transactional Attorneys] going to do? Sue me? They can't!"
I want to see more more Lawyer Discourse. Fight for our amusement!
Same tbh. :P How many well-worded angry emails did you get?
I would pay money to see that
Both sides are just jealous of each other tbh
This video makes transactional attorneys seem to have all the good jobs.
'First let's kill all the lawyers' is a line from Shakespeare Henry VI. Which is what the tailors line was referencing.
though it's owrth noting that the line is said by a villain, and in Shakespeare's day Lawyer's were perceived as guardians of the truth. So rather interestingly, it's a joke that nowadays get's laughs for the wrong reasons.
Also, it made a nice Indoccino transition
@@benthomason3307 yeah, but it is also true that " The line has been interpreted in different ways: criticism of how lawyers maintain the privilege of the wealthy and powerful; implicit praise of how lawyers stand in the way of violent mobs; and criticism of bureaucracy and perversions of the rule of law" (wikipedia)
he knows, he wouldn't have followed it up with a joke about why killing all the lawyers is a bad idea if he didn't get it. he probably just wanted to plug first :v
Funny even if you don't know the Shakespeare line.
"All these students are taking the BAR exam. You can tell because [they are soulless husks.]]"
Wait, being a lawyer is mostly research and writing? So my hobby of building D&D characters by researching hundreds of rules might be transferrable?
We always DM the campaigns we want to PC.
It is! My mate was jobless for years and was an excellent DM and then became a lawyer!
Also see: accounting and tax
This is actually the sort of temperament that will be incredibly happy as a lawyer.
Hot damn. Maybe I should become a lawyer after all. 🤔
Lawyer out here with his blue suit and red tie lookin' like he just came out of a Phoenix Wright cosplay competition.
Soap Thats what i was thinking lmao
OBJECTION: Post hoc argument re lawyers being dead inside. Most of us are dead inside even before we started law school.
Correlation and causation. It's not that law school kills you inside, Only people who are dead inside chooses to go to law school.
I was dead inside before law school. Then law school revived me, convincing me think that I was going to ZEALOUSLY ADVOCATE FOR INDIGENT CLIENTS AND SAVE THE WORLD!
7 years later as a public defender... insides have never been so dead.
"I had some very interesting interactions with the lawyers from CBS. That's a story for another day but, uh, let's just say...I'm not super sad that just happened to that CBS lawyer."
Now you HAVE to elaborate with a setup like that.
“You know it’s the BAR exam because of the blackboard” or you could have just looked at the sign before he entered that said BAR exam😂
This lawyer can easily be an animated character, his features are so distinct and cartoonish.
Oh damn ye
By that do you mean a Disney prince??
Haha so true! I think it’s quite cute
I never noticed that 😂
@@g.e.gramajo9136 So dreamy. That jawline tho
If you’re doing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend stuff, you have to do the water case in the middle of Season 1
Oh yeah & the episode in season 4 when Paula is getting offers from the big firms
Yesss
Oh my god yes
Yes please! And all courtroom scenes in it
“What are they gonna do? Sue me? They can’t!” 😆😂🤣💀 the SHADE!! I am cackling!
Came straight to the comments to find this
i died so hard. hahahahaaha its too savage
I love it. Xp
I see you didn't object to the "Soul-destroying" part and "you've never met a lawyer that's happy" hmmmmmm?
randomwerewolf That's why he makes TH-cam videos about the law! Silly.
Kinda like every Master's ever
Conspiracy about lawyers: they are fae.
-they legally can’t lie
-professionally deal in half truths and contracts
-terrifying
Addition: soulless
i want a modern fantasy story where fae lawyers are extremely common and extremely terrifying
And they are demons who give what actually happens but in the end somehow make everyone angry and they start dancing outside court because they used a lot of rules of constitution
They also gather in courts and many excel at following the letter of while completely disregarding its spirit.
And when you hit them hard with a rod of cold iron they are killed/seriously injured. Coincidence? I think NOT!
In case you all didn't know: Adam Schlesinger, of Fountains of Wayne fame, co-wrote this and many other CXG songs. He passed away of Covid-19 this week.
Sad
Now it's even more sad
RIP
@Music & Whistle msk a month later, and this was news to me. What was not news? there is not a single place on the entirety of the internet safe from people just intentionally being assholes.
oh GOD :d
Lawyer: Dies
Other Lawyer: Laughes
*The world of law is a hardcore wasteland, where only the best survive*
Sustained.
Haha. If only the best survived, it would be so much better. The truth is darker.
"I'm going to get a few very strongly worded emails from Transactional Attorneys but, what are they going to do? Sue me?" LOL! ROASTED! DJ M STONE has left the building!
Didn't he say "well-worded" letters?
@@Vohlfied oh, thanks!
🎶Spend 4 years working on a pharmaceutical company's merger with another pharmaceutical company!🎶
*Manical pained laughter*
I have the silly hobby to ask people on YT
if they'd like some nice recommendations of any kind.
Science-Channel may be my favorite thing to share,
but that's not all, as i have kept my Interests and Hobbys
very diversified for my whole, entire life.
So i got all you can imagine (except Sports!)!
Objection! You have misrepresented my client's background. She was a lawyer in NEW YORK, not in Boston. There is a whole song about her being from Westchester and being close to her family just north of the city.
And West Covina most certainly is NOT in the Inland Empire, it's in the San Gabriel Valley.
I WAS working hard in a new york job making dough but it made me blue
Haley Sienkiewicz yeah but Rachel Bloom didn't do enough research, and the fish song says it's in the inland empire
@@mollypocrass4562 She actually mentions that in the Live Show episode!
@@mollypocrass4562 which is funny because she grew up in southern California
Devin: "We try to avoid using legalese."
Also Devin: 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 '𝘴𝘶𝘪 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴' 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭.
While I too had to google this, technically Latin isn't legalese. At least not exclusively.
Andreas Egeland basically all legalese is just latin.
I learned Sui Generis in Spanish Class, it's relatively common in magazine articles and such.
I can't read what you said that Devin says. Why use something other than the standard 26 letters on your keyboard, when Latin mostly sticks to those letters anyway? It's not called the Latin Alphabet for nothing.
He is doing a popular youtube channel, he probably uses more legalese on his channel to bolster confidence in his stance.
As someone who lives in Riverside County, California... It's not my favorite place either.
What up Temecula!
Oh my God I lived there last year!!!! I didn't enjoy it either ...
As someone who went to Riverside Middle School I can concur
My wife's family lives in Fallbrook, and I can say that two visits a year to the area is PLENTY for me... And *not* because of the in-laws, lol!
My first time in the area, we stopped at In-N-Out for lunch; there was a homeless guy trying to get anyone coming out with a bag to trade their food for his meth. Someone was nice enough to just give him a burger, and he threw it in their face because it wasn't vegan.
SoCal: where even the hobos have entitlement issues.
I went to UCR because there was 100% placement if you got a teaching credential. What they didn’t say was that it would be in Moreno Valley. I quit the program immediately and vowed to move as far away from the Inland Empire as I possible. I HAVE NEVER GONE BACK. No college reunions, no nothing!
But I do regret not going to law school (just a little bit). I had an internship out of high school for the corporate department of a San Diego law firm (early to mid eighties). I enjoyed the research and prep aspect of the legal profession. And I didn’t mind that we were often defending the “bad” guys. One of the name partners even said that I’d have a guaranteed job there if I passed the bar.
Alas! I broke those lawyers’ hearts when I admitted that paralegal work was more appealing to me than appearing in court.
So I majored in English and I ended up in contracts management for a university foundation for several years. I loved that job. And I really loved that my student debt was only a few thousand dollars instead of a few *hundred* thousand dollars.
1) The song is a parody of 90's rap dance songs (think MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli, Fine Young Cannibals , Will Smith, etc.) hence the loose fit and crazy shiny colours.
2) The guy who is singing the song was a lawyer who quit lawyering and joined Rebecca (the main character) at her pretzels business. Two or three episodes later he decided being a lawyer is better than that and came back to practising law.
#2 - actually, he left his lawyer job first and opened the pretzel shop. When Rebecca found out, she got a job working for him. She then messed it up, got him in trouble with the corporate company who was going to shut him down, and he decided he didn't like managing other people anyway. That's when he went back to his lawyer job.
Then Rebecca decided to buy out the shop and make her own pretzel shop.
@ShalakumX Simba Since he mistook the reasoning for it seems like there was a reason. Could just be a joke or could be a lack of knowledge. But since all we were provided with was the mistake; an explanation was offered.
I thought it sounded like “every little step” by Bobby brown.
Edward yeah there was definitely some New edition in there
Apparently this lawyer that's commenting on the crazy ex girlfriend episode doesn't realise the colourful suits are from back in the nineties.. he didn't do is research that much.
My mom, who is a judge right now but was a lawyer, was with me when I was watching this episode. She started dying when this came up! She HATEDDD being a lawyer and she said this was all true and listen to this.
When I tell people my dad's a lawyer:
"Oh he must make a lot of money!"
"He's an immigration lawyer, so..... no."
He didn't choose it for the money, thats for sure, and has had times of financial struggle, especially after 2008. Also, I've worked with him and the show is totally right. A major bummer a lot of the time. But, when things do work out right, its an amazing feeling, and he loves the community he is a part of because of his job.
What does your dad actually do?
@@royhe3154 Lots of different things, marriage petitions, naturalizations, asylum petitions, hardship waivers, different types of visas, etc.
I work as an immigration paralegal and I can say, you never run out of work to do.
People like your dad are heroes
That’s awesome
My mother works in family court and whenever my mom’s coworkers would ask me if I was going to be a lawyer like her, I would say “no, she taught me better”
Omg, I'm not a lawyer but I know that family court can get so, so ugly. We have a case of a hugely famous person in Brazil who died very tragically last year. Now the family of the deceased and the mother of the kids are in a huge fight and the press got involved and... Things are BAD.
My cousin use to work in family court. She was there for a year. Then went into property as her specialist. She said family court is hard. Emotional & physical.
jess0099 yep my mom got roped in early on in her career and it’s been so long since she’s practiced anything else that it’s hard to change. Upside is that she does enjoy doing the adoptions for loving families.
Oh, fun fact... I was just reading about Racheal Bloom, co-pretty much everything for Crazy Ex Girlfriend and lead. Her father Alan Bloom, was a healthcare lawyer. So that explains a lot, and how so much in the song/show was accurate. Her mother was a musician, father a lawyer, and she graduated with a BFA. I especially love this show, because I have a couple of music degrees, and now I'm going to law school! So backwards, but very relatable and enjoyable! I still live for the stage, but covid and all. Plus, I love law school!
I practiced law for 5 years. Miserable experience. When I left the profession I think I was a week away from being in a bell tower with a rifle. Nothing is worse that working with lawyers....I became a terrible person when I was a lawyer. But I will say law school was an amazing 3 years. I loved it. It was stressful, exhausting, and amazing. I excelled at it. Graduated fourth in my class. Had an article published in the law review. Had a job right out of law school with a downtown firm. I thought I had it all figured out. Then after I passed the bar, I lived the 5 worst years of my life. At least I didn't become a alcoholic like most of the partners of the firm. One of the senior partners had to retire because he got so sick due to liver damage. He looked jaundiced all the time. Don't be a lawyer!!
wow that’s crazy!! good on you for working so hard but i applaud your ability to take a step back and do what’s best for you! if you don’t mind, could you elaborate on the “i became a terrible person when i was a lawyer” thing? i’ve heard this before but i’m wondering what it actually entails?
@@Zoe-tg4dl Aggressive. Mean. I was doing a deposition of a sweet elderly nurse and I made her cry. I realized...I'm not a good person anymore. Certainly not a kind person anymore. I can't list everything, but to sum up, everything about the profession is about conflict..it takes it's toll. When I decided not to be so hardcore in my application of the law, the partners quickly lost their ardor for me and my chances of becoming a partner faded away. Despite no meaningful drop in the income I was generating for the firm. And several guys I graduated with had already left law because they hated it. I decided they had the right idea.
Kevin H wow that’s actually kinda heartbreaking, like i can’t imagine having the time of my life for three years learning about law, and then practising it and hating the person it’d turn me into. so devastating. but for what it’s worth, i think your experience and how you decided to deal with it shows you were and are good person with a lot of integrity.
Super old comment, and super late reply, but I hope you're in a profession that you're happy in!
It's a massive accomplishment graduating Law school, but an even bigger one to not be too proud to step back and go 'this isn't working out'. I know so many people working themselves to death because they refuse to 'Quit'.
I hope you're doing good!
@@SallyBerry9 I have a job at a small size auto supplier. I have multiple roles, IT director, drafting and reviewing contracts with suppliers and vendors, and payroll. So I still do some legal stuff, but it isn't the cutthroat profession I was in before. Honestly not my dream job but it is ok. I plan to stay a couple years to establish some resume experience outside of law firm practice.
Song: "What about Human Rights Law?"
(Before the next line is even started) Devin: "Oh no." *Stops dancing*
Me: *wakes up in the middle of the night
Disembodied whisper: "Indochino..."
XthegreatwhyX me too bud...me too. In all actuality, I may do this as a joke on my girl. She likes to randomly flip her arm over my face; payback may be in store.
It's so catchy
I read this after I woke up in the middle of the night I couldn’t fall back to sleep so I got on TH-cam to watch Legal Eagle
in case you don't know the background of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: She was working hard at a New York job making dough but it made her blue. One day she was crying a lot and so she decided to move to West Covina, California - brand new pals and a new career. It happened to be where Josh was but that wasn't why she was there
He looks like John Krasinski’s long-lost brother.
I'm just sitting here waiting for you to React to Legally Blonde.
Renee Fuchs yes pleasssee!
Yes
Commenting in hopes this goes up
Well then...
He did now
Objection, there's a reasonable ammount of money in Bird Law.
Counter-objection: No there isn't!
@@tivednagol9127 Verification: Let's define "Reasonable" and determine where that range sits.
Dr. Kuhn, my objection is based on the fact there’s no such thing as “bird law” and that it only exists as a meme due to _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s_ influence. So thus, there’s no money to be made from it.
@@tivednagol9127 objection - always sunny made a lot of money from the idea. Therefore reasonable money in it.
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about bird law to dispute it.
Not gonna lie, you're making being a lawyer sound *waaay* more appealing than it ever did when I was a kid. The thought of arguing in front of people terrified me, but sitting a desk, doing paperwork? Hell yeah, 16 year-old me would've absolutely wanted to go to law school!
When I was a fresh faced grad, I was thinking of going back and doing my law degree. I met a friend of my dad's at a bqq my dad was hosting, and he was a lawyer, specifically criminal defence. I asked him what he thought and what his experiences were, and he just looked at me with just dead-ness behind the eyes and said in the most soul crushing voice "Don't do it".
"Come at me West Covina." Technically, depending on where you are at any given time, West Covina might actually be getting closer thanks to plate tectonics.
"That's why I passed." That legitimately cracked me up, nice delivery.
"We try to avoid legalese because it's really not persuasive to a LAYPERSON." Dope, dude.
You should watch the whole thing. It's just THE BEST show. Smart, funny, emotional and with over 150 original songs, each one a smash!
On "Inside the Actor's Studio, " each interviewee is asked what profession they would never wish to attempt. Tom Hanks' answer to the question was, "Lawyer. It's like doing homework for a living."
I love doing homework. Sounds awesome.
@@misspriss2482 that has got to be the geekiest sentence I've ever read.
@@misspriss2482 Software developer is another good one for that. A lot of your time is spent doing the equivalent of reading textbooks and going through practice assignments to learn the tools in question, then going through and refining/altering it in the form of "tickets" or "issues" which could be seen as similar to homework. It's not for everyone, just like lawyering isn't for everyone - and nothing is, for that matter. But if you love doing homework I think it might be worth looking into! (Not to mention demand could be generously described as "damned enormous" right now and the chance of that changing soon is minimal.)
@@superlukey3 Add statistician to that, because we got to do the same damn thing. We got to read books, read research papers because some of this shit ain't in the books yet. You got to go back and review past topics, its fun stuff.
Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history
This video: hold my law degree
Objection: West Covina isn't in the inland empire, it's in the San Gabriel valley. It's almost like they forgot to do a little bit of research for the first musical number they ever wrote for the show.
PS that's a reference to the live version of West Covina, where Rachel Bloom specifically addressed that fact.
Law student: What about human rights law?
Show: No money! No, no money!
Law student: Enviornmental law?
Show: No money! Even less money!
Law student: Immigration Law?
Show: No money! Plus its a bummer!
Actualy Lawyer: Hahhahahahaha
Me: 0-0 WHAT IS WRO-
@ZN - 11BH 654595 Mayfield SS yeah but Joe Schmo doesn’t make nearly enough to pay his lawyer a huge amount, unlike a pharmaceutical company with money to blow on private high end lawyers.
So interested in CBS lawyer incident you were talking about!
OBJECTION!
this entire episode needs to be done in song to be valid in the court of Rebecca Bunch!
Ugh, way too much work.
@@LegalEagle if you want to win the case you have to put in the work lol
At least the flooded with justice bits?
Not too much work for legaleagle: 12 years of being an attorney
Too much work for legaleagle: one youtube video turned into a song
There’s an episode of Criminal Minds called “Tabula Rasa” where they try to convict a three-time murderer who has lost his memory of the crimes. Maybe you’ll find it interesting/infuriating?
I'm a huge fan of criminal minds and when I watched this episode, I was morally at an impasse. I found it difficult to want him convicted when he had zero recollection about anything he had done, but I wanted him to pay for the murders he committed. I asked myself if you could convict someone who wasn't at all like the person who murdered them. Would it be like convicting someone who didn't commit the crime? Would it be justifiable? But when he remembers what he did and he goes to his first body, I kinda felt bad for the guy. But it wasn't like it horrified him so I still don't know how to feel
@@kenziebritton3580 it's like that castle episode where there was a guy who pretty much framed for murder but he totally lost his memory. They thought the case was closed but they still investigated and found the true killer
@Kenzie Britton I've never tought about this. I am not a lawyer, but I'm gonna tell you what I think about punishment: it should be made very clear for the person who is being punished that they did something wrong and because of that they are subject to imprisonment or solitary confinement or ... well whatever the penalty is.
Now that I read about this I am thinking that maybe, just maybe, terrible criminals should not receive death penalties. Or at least, they should be taken out of jail when they are mentally uncapable of undertanding their situation. The thing is I don't know if I would be ok with a rapist or a child murderer being well taken care of when they get old with the money that I pay in taxes.
This episode features an epic hotch scene where he takes down the lawyer in cross because the guy made the mistake of asking a rhetorical open ended question and hotch simultaneously lawyers and profiles the hell out of him. Love that scene even if it is unrealistic and would like to see LEs reaction to it
It's very depressing that the most critical jobs in our world today are incredibly underpaid. We need people fighting for the rights of other humans, for the environment, for the voices that go unheard. People fighting for those important things should be paid fairly. Corporations shouldn't be able to have the upper hand all the time just because they can afford to shell out more money for a more experienced legal team. It's completely unfair.
'what are they going to do, Sue me?
THEY CAN'T'
... Wow, you're just going for the jugular aren't you dude?
The Ally McBeal episode where she rear ends a guy on purpose to meet him, his laugh is awful so she breaks up with him, then he sues her.
I watched Crazy Ex Girlfriend thanks to this video. It's such a creative and clever show! 10/10 recommend!!
I finally figured it out. The song is basically Bobby Brown's, "EVERY LITTLE STEP."
Haha!
😂😂😂😂
Pretty much every song in Crazy-Ex Girlfriend is effectively a parody of an existing musical reference, from "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" to Shirley Temple classics to a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance number to Fosse...the list goes on. It's a show full of great parodies and is endlessly entertaining and thought provoking at the same time.
Might I suggest the Justice League episode "In Blackest Night", the trial of Green Lantern?
wanderlustwarrior As an April Fools day prank I would love to see him cover a crazy nonsense trial like in Alice in Wonderland or the Billy and Mandy episode “Keeper of the Reaper”.
that would be interesting. but i'm pretty sure that our laws would not be the same as an alien planet
@@chicostephenson he did review a Star Trek trial, and they would be under Federation law. He would probably review the process, and compare it to how this would go on Earth.
@@chicostephenson All his legal reviews seem to be in the context of United States jurisprudence. He did that for the trial of Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones
@@chicostephenson Especially the trial of Captain Kirk in Star Trek 6
"We spell justice, with a dollar $ sign."
- *Legal Lee* , _"Saints Row"_
and you just now noticed this, why do you think amber heard is still walking around. she should be in jail not getting movie deals!!
Need to put that on a plaque.
It’s so nice to see a professional TH-cam reviewer who has an actual sense of humor and can laugh at the jokes on his profession!
I wished there was a company that made tailored suits for women
States on Indochinos website that they'll tailor their suits for women. Or Sumissura is a tailor for womens suits. About the same price point.
By turning one of your sponsorships into a recurring joke, you've made it so you can have TWO sponsors per video, nice job xD
OBJECTION!
I have no objection. I've just always wanted to say that.
I want to become a lawyer just so I have a chance to yell, "You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!"
@Gevin Shaw just as long as you don't step into the well when you say it. Don't get tackled by the bailiff.
OBJECTION:
You look like the product of someone digitally meshing together Ryan Reynolds and John Krazynski.
I have the silly hobby to ask people on YT
if they'd like some nice recommendations of any kind.
Science-Channel may be my favorite thing to share,
but that's not all, as i have kept my Interests and Hobbys
very diversified for my whole, entire life.
So i got all you can imagine (except Sports!)!
My cousin is a lawyer for a pharmaceutical company and I scoffed at it for being "boring".....until I realized she was making hella bank from it.
I have never seen a dance that was both technically and artistically faithful to the style while also being absolutely hilarious! You can time my painfully uncontrollable giggles to each time it played again.
You should watch Crazy Exgirlfriend. Every musical number is genius and well done.
If you think this one’s good, you should see Hey Sexy Stranger or Let’s Generalize About Men.
@@hardcandy9880 I have the silly hobby to ask people on YT
if they'd like some nice recommendations of any kind.
Science-Channel may be my favorite thing to share,
but that's not all, as i have kept my Interests and Hobbys
very diversified for my whole, entire life.
So i got all you can imagine (except Sports!)!
Loturzel Restaurant hi, i would gladly take a few recommendations if you’d like to share. i’m interested in science as well but happy to learn about anything :)
@@Zoe-tg4dl Oh, nice.
I dont even know where to start, cause theres so many who give it their best: Like Veritasium, Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, PBS-Space-Time! Oh and Zoo-Tier, if it can be a little more 'abstract'.
And many channel with 'Engineering' in the name, also.
"Only the top 10% of graduates get a good well paying job"
In Finland, we've dealt with this problem by just... not training those 90% in law to begin with. Seriously, the fewest lawyers per capita in any developed country, with about 10 times fewer lawyers than the US. Result: nearly 100% employment rates.
Oh, plus law school's free. The flipside is that it's *really* hard to get into - only 5% of applicants are accepted each year, and only a minority of successful applicants was applying for the first time.
Right now on a year long grind to try and squeeze myself into those five per cent!
Just wanted to pop in and wish you the best of luck!
Good luck, my viking friend!
Not free - tax funded. And precisely because of that that you have arbitrary rationing.
@@JukaDominator the arbitrary rationing is not a cost saving measure. It's because of a century of lobbying by the legal profession :D. Every time anyone proposes or demands the intake be increased, everyone gets up in arms about it. Other university fields are substantially less "rationed".
As to the freeness - obviously you are right over all. I am not pretending we don't pay for it in high income taxes, and I actually recognise that in the current US political climate this may be an important thing to remind people of. The effective tax rate can reach 2/3rds of your income, which is pretty brutal. A large welfare state absolutely has its perks and I broadly support it, but in the clamour to establish one in the United States it is sometimes forgotten or understated that it does, in fact, cost money - not just to some abstract group of ultra rich people, but to you. It may be worth it, but it isn't free or even cheap.
What I meant by it, more, is that by not having a 300k cost attached, law school isn't more expensive to you than other options, so this is not a consideration when applying.
@@johannesmajamaki2626 which, in turn, means you have arbitrary ratonings instead of a proper distribution. In your case, they're shrinking the lawyers to raise their own salaries (this also happens where I live, which isn't the US), something doctors also do in the US.
"should I look at an episode of Ally McBeal?"
She was staring at the 3DS Max dancing baby I think you have everyone's attention
"What are they gonna do - sue me?... they can't!"
As a (soul-destroyed and unhappy) transactional lawyer, this made me laugh a lot!
Thanks for doing this. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is one of my favorite shows. But this comment is really to praise you for the creative and hilarious way you have of working in those Indochino endorsements. It's worth watching your videos for that alone. The law review stuff is just gravy. :)
Yes! Kind of like the butter commercials they work in throughout the show 😂
REACT TO LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL ALREADY
@LegalEagle I know it's going to be difficult right now, but you should totally do it for April 1st.
there's a musical of legally blonde...? Oh, I have to find this.
@@chicostephenson the musical is, in my opinion, better than the movie. Ell has to spend a lot of time studying hard, and actually struggling to achieve her goal, and even then, she also needs the support of her friends.
@@lasrber good that always bugged me that she just woke up one day took a test and suddenly she's in Harvard. apparently, my high school guidance counselor lied to me.
@@chicostephenson oh yeah, there's entire songs covering months of intense study, and the value of hard work. Not giving up when it's hard, test prep, etc. Granted, there's a lot that still cheesy and unrealistic, but it's less pervy old guys going 'lol boobs' and handing everything to her
"What about human rights law?"
Me and Devin at the same time: "OH NO"
(I'm a pre-law student and positively worship Amal Clooney but... yeah)
@ZN - 11BH 654595 Mayfield SS I mean, you could say the same about teachers, non-surgeon medical staff, exc exc.
They actually really glossed over one of the biggest drawbacks of being a lawyer--DEBT. Even if you really have your heart set on being a public interest lawyer and don't care about the low pay, good luck paying your student loans without the big bucks.
No, they mentioned student loan debt-but it was just one problem of many they listed, and they didn't really concentrate on it.
@@drdarkenythat's what "glossed over" means.
That sweet indochino suit is so blue I swear I was waiting for him to yell "Objection!" at some point.
*Sees this episode ripping on lawyers*
Devin: Hey now, that's not nice!
Also Devin: *Subtly vibing to those parts*
It can't be resisted!
The Bar Exam sign was a dead give away that they were taking a bar exam.
crazy ex-girlfriend is such an underrated tv show
My two favorite things: Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Devin in a well fitted suit with a banger of a tie. When you smiled and said "it hurts my heart"...it kinda hurt my heart.
Yes, yes, yes to reacting to Ally McBeal! There are 30-somethings watching, I promise.
And a 40 something...because i hate t.v.....oh the irony
(24 here) also would love a reaction to Ally McBeal !
Surprisingly, The O.C. (a teen drama from the 2000's) got right the "no, no money" part right too. The father was a public defender and made very little, while the mother was a real estate tycoon in Orange County, CA. A story arc in the show was the husband struggling with the wife being "the breadwinner" of the family.
4:10 "I'm really good at arguing, I'm really good on my feet"
Meanwhile I'm over here looking at the 5000-word policy submission I've spent the last two weeks chained to my desk meticulously editing and footnoting.
"Affordable Suits"
Starting price - $300+
Me - Aight Imma head out.
Good suits normally cost $600+
A 30 dollar suit is made of glued together plastic that will never look good on you
@@KaitouKaiju $30 Suit?!?! Tell me where!
@@Murray.Sutherland Goodwill
@@Murray.Sutherland Groupon 😂suits from $39.99
You have to be a brave man to wear something so bad
Oh boy, you clearly haven't seen custom made bespoke suits, have you?
“And there are literally hundreds of thousands of attorneys in the US alone “
A little piece of my soul has died.
Wait what why
The part in the song where they sing no ones ever said: "first let´s kill all the tailors" is actually a joke on a line from one of Shakespeare's works (one of the Henry`s I think, maybe Henry six???) where the line is let's kill all the lawyers. I´m shocked that he didn´t mention that.
A big part of the reason I wanted to go to law school as a child and became a lawyer was also because of Law and Order, I've always been so embarrassed by that, I rarely even admit it. Good to know I'm not alone.
Good to see someone appreciating Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
"It's not my favorite place in the world...I'm gonna get some hate for that one."
To be fair, that West Covina isn't a super great place is one of the first jokes in the show. The first song is her insisting she moved because of how great the city is with it's pretzels and anime wigs while the middle school band kids get their instruments taken from them because the music program was cut. So I don't think any of the fans of the show are going to get mad at that.
I was thinking he'd get hate from people who live there. not from fans of the show.
My grandfather became a lawyer after reading some of the files while working at a tax office as a teenage and deciding he really liked reading legalese.
This video summarizes my advice to Nigerian undergraduates that want to study Medicine. So many parallels...
The general counsel from parents, uncles & aunties at the time was, "Oh, you're brilliant? Got good grades in science? Want a prestigious career? Study Medicine!" Hell Nah! Loads of Medical students in uni hating their lives for 7 years only to start a lifetime career of highly stressful work with odd working hours... There are easier ways to get money or prestige.
When he dissed the suits to plug his sponsor, I was like, "Just for that I'm not going to subscribe."
When he trolled transactional lawyers all fearlessly I was like, "Lol Fine, I'll subscribe."
Dude, infinite respect for those who even try being a lawyer...
That earthquake interjection is so accurate. Genuinely earthquakes are so whatever 🤷♀️
I love that humming and moving his head to the rhythm of song the entire time.
I need to watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This video was a lot of fun and I love how you discuss the legal profession. L.A. Law, Law and Order. These were some of my fave shows growing up. Never wanted to be a lawyer but these shows really let us know that the profession was tough and soul-crushing. But you had a job to do and people need representation in court. Love them for it.
There's not a whole lot of lawyering in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, just a warning. If I recall correctly, the main character goes to trial as a lawyer only once (representing an apartment building after the landlord cut off the hot water). She's a real estate lawyer, so it makes sense there's not a lot of courtroom stuff happening, but even when they're in the law offices there's not a lot of law stuff happening.
I mean it's a great show, but it's more about deconstructing romcoms and mental health than it is about law.
Technically there is a LOT of law stuff happening: LAW BREAKING, especially in the first season.
"...but that's a story for another time."
Oh no, DJ. You can't do us like that. Spill the legality. (Get it? Legality? Legal-tea? ... I'm done.)
I have a friend who does immigration law and she told the most horrifying story. A client came to her in tears. She had a letter dated March 9th, 2018 postmarked March 13, 2018 which she received on March 16th.
The letter said she was at danger over being deported over her failure to attend an important hearing...that was scheduled for April 10,2018!!!!!!!
it would be funny if it was so enraging and absolutely terrifying.