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Occult Law Firm
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: lawyers that represent the occult and the bizarre creatures of the night. Caught taking a little crimson nip? We'll get you out before sunrise! Attacked by the local band of angry villagers? We'll get restraining orders against them all! Want revenge against your Mad Scientist creator? We'll get you emancipated and sue him for child support! The government has confiscated your light interplanetary vehicle for not being flight-worthy? We can help you sue them for not properly declaring an official tow-zone or providing means to contact a repair crew! Our rates are reasonable, our hours excellent. We accept credit card, check, or virgin sacrifice. Pro bono work is not a specialty of ours, but should we consider it, we most certainly do not have our own reasons beyond potential future, gainful employment. We frequently work closely with The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay to ensure our name is instantly recognizable to the savvy client. As a result, we don't often resort to ambulance-chasing; hearses, morgues, and funeral parlors are more remunerative when it comes to our specific business model. If we aren't exactly what you are looking for, we recommend you check out the Amoral Attorney or Rules Lawyer, instead. Although a few on our retainer could easily count as those, too. See Fantastic Legal Weirdness for examples where the lawyers aren't necessarily occult but the cases they have to deal with definitely are. |
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Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, Supernatural Law. | |
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Mann, Levinn and Lewis from Pact. A firm composed of practitioners, almost all diabolists, who offered their top-notch services (and their identities) to demons in exchange for the cleansing of their karmic debt, just to avoid the consequences of a botched summoning and/or to avoid death-by-diabolist-hunters. They're cheerfully upfront about wanting this fate for the protagonist, which is why they assist him so that he can live long enough to one day be backed into a corner and take the deal. This is an unusual case of this trope for two reasons: The firm end up being the Big Bad and Final Boss of the serial; the demons they work with are Always Chaotic Evil beings that seek a Class X-4 (destruction of the universe) if not Class Z (destruction of reality) level Apocalypse, so when circumstances arise in which they can hasten this, they stop being dangerous peripheral characters and start fighting in earnest. While they enjoy enormous power and clout within the supernatural community, as per usual for this trope, it's a rather horrible place to work; when Ms Lewis is blasted in the chest at point-blank range with a rifle (taking the full, gory damage an ordinary human would,) she recovers in minutes and says "My continued employment supercedes death" but also "it's been a few long months since I felt proper agony." |
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Wolfram & Hart from Angel start off as just a particularly evil-aligned example of this trope, but are later revealed to be the front organisation for an extremely powerful trio of extra-dimensional demons, the titular Wolf, Ram, and Hart. They claim the "senior partners" draw power from pretty much all human evils (so they are invested in making sure the world provides plenty of opportunities and pressures for people to do evil things) and are the main force behind the final apocalypse in a setting where there are dozens of them queued up. | |
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The Harry Potter story Amber and Emerald has a goblin and witch law firm of Gripsack and Twist, who are a surprisingly reputable if aptly vicious team. | |
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Discworld: The law offices of Morecomb, Honeyplace, and Slant in Ankh-Morpork aren't necessarily 100% occult, but there's no denying they've been in the business longer than anyone else; Mr. Slant is a zombie (and a major player in city politics), and his partners are both vampires (and while Morecombe has appeared in Men at Arms serving as the Ramkin family lawyer, Mr. Honeyplace has only ever been mentioned). They don't necessarily specialize in supernatural cases, but then, nor do the firms run by living human lawyers specialize in mundane cases; that's just the kind of world Discworld is. Mr. Slant is feared throughout the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful in Ankh-Morpork not because he's a zombie but because he's been practicing law for so long that he set most of the precedents cited in contemporary cases. | |
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Simon from Simon Sues is an example of this trope. | |
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In one Nodwick story, the heroes have to get past a pair of "infernal law clerks" to get to an evil wizard's palace, whom Artax calls "devils with the details". The two are foiled by Piffany after they fail to find anything immoral or unethical in her record worse than swatting a fly and become so shaken up by the "morally superior being" that she fools them into signing a contract without reading it, which gets rid of them. | |
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In the opening chapter of Monster Soup, the same lawyer represents all of the main cast, though he comes across as more of a public defender. | |
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The Devil's Advocate has Keanu Reeves join Milton, Chadwick and Waters. Al Pacino plays Milton. They are knee-deep in organised crime and are willing to murder those who betray or threaten to expose them, but seek to accomplish their amoral goals chiefly through litigation — the point of the exercise being to demonstrate the world unsustainable through Loophole Abuse; | |
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Daniel Webster from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a lawyer who specializes in witch law after a Deal with the Devil backfired and got his daughter killed. | |
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Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, the law firm that employed She-Hulk for a time during the Dan Slott run, specialised in dealing with superhero-related and supernatural cases (although they represented aliens and underground civilizations, too). The later Charles Soule-written run had Jennifer operating as a solo practitioner, with many of her cases involving superpeople. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Devils maintain a court system for both internal affairs and mortals disputing their diabolic pacts. Erinyes work here as lawyers, and while their organization isn't expanded upon, it's noted that their Lawful nature means that they will make sure their clients always get the best possible legal advice, no matter what. | |
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The protagonists of Wizard Barristers, law firm Butterfly. | |
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Exterminatus Now reveals that the Patterner (the verse's version Tzeentch) actually lost a lawsuit to Tzeentch as regards being the god of change, with Tzeentch's lawyer being a Lord of Change and the Patterner's... a hat with googly eyes. | |
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Team Fortress 2: According to the supplemental materials, the Soldier somehow managed to become an Amoral Attorney. He even ended up advising the two recently deceased Mann Brothers about how they each needed to send the other to hell to pick up their inheritance. The implausibility of the Soldier passing his bar exams is lampshaded and then Hand Waved with a remarkably literal example of A Wizard Did It. It sure helped him having Merasmus as a roommate for a time. | |
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The law firm Mack goes to in Tales of MU. Technically all law firms given the high fantasy setting, but this one is played as more willing than most to represent non-humans, apparently they've worked for greater Dragons in the past. | |
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The Dark Skies Corporation from Bleak World is this and a bunch of other stuff. They harvest the souls of their clients for some unknown purpose and are lead by a group of evil lawyers who sold their souls for immortality and all the legal knowledge there is. | |
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Cole from Charmed originally posed as an Assistant District Attorney while he was plotting to kill the sisters and, after that collapsed, was employed by various law firms over the course of the series. You were a lawyer and a demon? The jokes write themselves. | |
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As mentioned below, while the heroes in the Craft Sequence novels aren't always employed by law firms, the Craft is effectively treating as practicing law with the universe. The first novel, Three Parts Dead, is about a necromancer employed by a firm of sorcerers who is sent to help carve up and resurrect a city's patron god in what's effectively a divine form of bankruptcy restructuring. | |
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