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Annalise Keating is an unorthodox law professor. Instead of being a “good” law professor or actually “teaching” she makes her students unpaid interns for her criminal defense law firm. Drama! Mystery! Legal technicalities! Today we’re going to review How to Get Away With Murder. Stay until the end for my Legal Realism Grade!
This one was a bear. It made me want to pull my hair out. This show is more soap opera than legal procedural. I’m glad I got through it, but I’m not sure I’m the same man as when i started. Does it get better over time? Would you like me to react to another one? Let me know in the comments!
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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!
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This show has the same fallacy that so many legal shows and movies do: that cases are won or lost in the courtroom, and that the best lawyers are the ones who can argue the best. Instead of the truth that most cases are decided from meticulous study of case law and precedent, discovery, and that for every hour spent in the courtroom, several dozen were spent in depositions and fact finding
I absolutely love that you made no comment deriding Annalise’s slick way that she slid Connor’s broken chain of custody emails into the trial. If you’re ballsy and think it’s worth the risk, AND if you have associates who have worked with you for so long they know you almost as well as you know yourself, it could pay off big-time for sure!
There’s an episode where they tell the jury about nullification to get their client off
I tried to rewatching it and it’s so hard
Me showing this to my curious little cousin:
Both of us while watching: We like your words, magic man
Just asking sir, what if the client gave her consent to break privilege? Or what if the client break privilege herself ?
Where can I download this movie ? 🥲
0:35 to 0:43. that is arguably a verbal contract.
Dont watch whole series 😭😂
Mens rea is literally mental state. Not more or less
this is a show to watch like a thriller.. each season a murder or 2.. and it's addictive as a drama tv show with full of drama relationships, impossibles twists and all.. And at the end nobody wants to hire them because they suck at grades as they spent their time helping Annalyse and being into weird cases of their own making.. and also some or most of them, they are disgusted by law at the end don't want to become an attorney because they are all dirty and guilty of murders..and they all got away with them, but they feel guilty..
You never know if someone is gonna stay loyal or try to leave or say the truth and it's addictive as basically they don't really have a choice.. with the hitman Annalyse's help and everyone can do murder in that show, in a moment of out of character.. or premedited murder.. . like all shonda rhymes tv shows it is not made to be realistic but to get entertainment only.
I used to be a law student and I never wanted to be an attorney but a cop.. It took me several years to watch this show I thought I'll never finish it.. How to say.. I know it isn't accurate at all but it's a shonda rhymes tv show (like greys anatomy) so you know what to expect. Still, as I'm french and not american, this show like all related attorneys tv shows made me learn words and very little bit about the system in America..
I watched the show for entertainment drama ..
so about the whole series, we see many sides of Annalise Keating..as a teacher, she teaches law when she is in front of 100 person room amphitheater (in France, it is easy to get into law school so yes we were in a bigger amphitheather than that one, with 400 persons at the beginning of the 1st semester in 1st year, but quickly everyone quits, and by the end of the year we're very few like 30/50 to still attend some classes. Also I did learn penal law only in 2nd year and special penal law is only teached if you make it to the 5th year.. I didn't. I have a small degree in law. the 1st one you can get. Thing is we were taught all kinds of laws all specialities and I hated it.. I only wanted to know about civil law and penal law..
Back to the show, I always gave that show excuses =
she teaches law for all students but we almost never get to see that (probably it is boring for viewers) and apart that, what we see all the time is her favorite group of students , with them she only speaks about how to help clients who alledgedly murdered someone and even worse , they all get involved in murders themselves, but always get away with all of these.
The woman DA is Annalyse's ancient lover and she gives her what she wants (totally illegal of course) as well as the cop we see (former lover soon) , as well as Frank, a hitman, who is paid to kill people and to bury bodies in the show.. and yes everyone's fine with that.. They all work together , the DA, the cop, the lawyer and her favorite students..
You will like to know she 's been disbarred once or more times in the show… she's also herself in a lawsuit where she's the alledgely killer of her husband.. she also gets to prison but when she comes back all is fine, she teaches again in university and also works as a lawyer again..
She also has a very interesting private life, she's bi, (i'm happy about that as I am too, happy bi pride ), dating both, her family doesn't accept that, she's been abused as a child, the DA too.. also she's alcoholic but teaches while being drunk yes.
The DA story is as messed up as the hitman's one.
She was her first difficult case back when she was younger and still yet always winning all her cases (awful case child abuse and she defends the rapists because her firm defend them, she destroys the victim, she can't stand what she did so she takes that victim right after the case under her roof, and they become friends and then lovers while there's a love triangle the husband, her and Annalyse. Also the victim, Bonnie (later DA), is sent to law school to become an attorney by the couple.. (because Annalyse was impressed as an attorney how good she was in a courtroom as a victim and she seemed to know all laws already)..
Later, she becomes her own person and even a DA.. but .. Annalyse has a power, everyone's under her influence (all characters, students, the hitman, the DA, the cop), whereas it's love or friendship, or both, or student/teacher/sort of mother/authority figure.. She's a jerk to everyone but everyone always respects her and forgive her for all, to resume..
She's always there to help the students who are more busy to be involved in murders than studying.. though we see them studying a lot..
They never seem to rest, sleep..
I always assume she picked up the small group as they were geniuses who already knew all the laws like if they already studied law before..
(it is possible.. As a teenager loving law I studied by myself all penal code law and later laws in general with my sister beinh already in law school before me so I made her study for finals and had to read learn and understand everything)..
So if the 1st episode drives you crazy, never watch the others..
Each season we have a murder to get away with, usually involving students, and it's impossible to follow as it's all season in reverse, backwards, first tou see the end the murder the body, but not the murderers, then it's all in lots of flashbacks during the season and you understand only at the end of each season who murdered who.. Also we always have these cases to solve, murderers to help with the keating 5 club. (the favorite students she picked to help her for the cases, it all happens after university hours, usually, and at her home.
There, I tried to resume the whole series in a post.
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I enjoyed this video, but based on this episode, this show seems pretty bad (at least to someone like me, who does not watch TV). I went and read the plot lines on Wikipedia and judging from them, it 1) appears to be quite poorly written; and 2) seems devoid of any resemblence of reality. I hope it's not like reality, as the lawyers and the students all appear to be moral reprobates who lie and commit crimes constantly.
But I know as little about lawyers as I do about TV. I am familiar with lawyers only based on what LegalEagle has exposed me to his videos and what I have seen of Trump's legal representatives, the mixture of which creates in my mind a cloud of inconstancy and confusion re. the nature of lawyering. Of course, these particular TV lawyers and potential lawyers appear to be of ilk of Roy Cohn, whose successor Trump always wished for.
I have actually had no contact with lawyers in my life (except for signing deeds and such) and hope to keep it that way, unless I somehow won the big lottery jackpot, in which case I would definately call the LegalEagle team. That's not like to happen as I don't play the lottery, but still it's good to know they are there.
Regardless of how valid the show was legally, it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen entertainment-wise.
It was constantly repetitive and took forever to move the plot forward. I stopped watching because I was so bored and annoyed with it.
Jesus lord have mercy. It’s a tv show.
Just came across this gem of a video so thanks for reminding me to finish the series 😅
But, was wondering if you ever had spare time again to do a Lincoln Lawyer reaction please 😃😃
Quick question… Do you ever just watch a legal part of a show to enjoy it or do you always "take your work home"? VERY CURIOUS
Patients lie. House’s truism apply to law as well