My dad hated lawyers. ... You might think I became a lawyer just to piss him off. But you'd be wrong. I've wanted to be a lawyer ever since I read about the civil rights lawyers in the 50s and 60s and the amazing uses they found for the law.  They did what a lot of people thought was impossible.  They gave lawyers a good name.  So I went to law school.

from The Rainmaker (1997)