Oooohhhh…Joyce Davenport. Skip the trial, just put me in a cell with her. She’s the one that turned me on to women wearing nothing but a man’s dress shirt.
Plnnr, who’s mother got him an autographed picture of V. Hamel for Xmas one year (my mother used to make fun of me no end about my crush on her).
Courtney Thorne-Smith. Long-haired version.
Daniel Webster, from The Devil and Daniel Webster
Harvey Birdman - Attorney At Law.
If he can get Scooby and Shaggy off drug posession and use charges, he can do anything.
Emulsified, Claire Huxtable was very good, but I think she did mostly family law and stuff. Could be wrong, though. I know, I used her when I needed to mention a fictional attorney in a story invo0lving another sitcom on Fanfiction.net.
So, I’d use her for anything civil. Criminal, I vote for Matlock. Indeed, if I’m int hat fictional world I may well attend the same church. 
I’d have to go with Vincent Gambini (aka Jerry Gallo, aka Jerry Callo, etc…)
He’s got a perfect win-loss record, after all. 
I’d choose Christopher Paget from Richard North Patterson’s books Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child.
Paget’s been a murder suspect himself and knows how it is to be on that side of the courtroom, stays calm no matter what happens.
Court schmort. I’d hire Nero Wolfe. He’d have me proven innocent & I’d probably never have to go to court again after the arraignment.
as for Perry Mason, mmmm, love that Perry, he also lost a case in the novels, “The Case of the Terrified Typist”.
Henry Drummond from Inherit the Wind as portrayed by Spencer Tracy.
Argh! Pretend you were in the other thread when you read my post. I apparently was…
How can we have an entire page of responses here and no one’s mentioned the huge, vicious, knife-wielding Samoan attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? (I mean the book, not the execrable movie.)
Lionel Hutz, because then I would get a free smoking monkey, of course.
“Look at that, he’s taking another puff.”
Gerald Broflovski, if only because he could represent both sides of the trial simultaneously. No matter the verdict, things look to work out very well for Kyle’s Dad.
I’m going to add Dad to my team. We might need someone with patent expertise to . . . um . . . well . . . hmmm . . .
I give up. I just wanted to work Calvin’s dad in somehow. Anyone who’s heard his explanation for why black and white pictures aren’t in color and how sunset works knows that this is a man who can think on his feet.
So far I’ve got Douglas Wambaugh first chair and Eugene Young second chair. The bald guy from Murder One to bribe the appleate court if I lose, and Dad to help plan strategy.
Atticus Finch is a fine example of moral rectitude, courage in a hostile environment, and yes, lawyering skill. But you’re forgetting one thing: he lost.
If my ass is in a sling on a murder rap, I’m not sure I’d want a paragon of virtue defending me – I’d want someone who’d do whatever he (legally) could, however sleazy, to get me off the hook, including but not limited to the Chewbacca defense.
South Park’s version of Johnny Cochran could have convinced the Maycomb jurors that Tom Robinson, in addition to being innocent, also wasn’t black. That’s the kind of guy you want sitting next to you at your murder trial.
He went “backpacking through Europe” according to an offhand comment in a later episode.
:smack: I knew that.