[Legally Blonde] is more than another romantic comedy. It’s a nod to feminism, not judging women by appearances and, of course, women in law.
The ultimate verdict on the movie should be that you don’t need a man to succeed, you can still be feminine and strong if that’s your style, and you can always brush someone’s condescending doubt about your worth with a “What, like it’s hard?”
— Haley Moss, an associate at Zumpano Patricios, in a piece she wrote on the ways Legally Blonde influenced a generation of women lawyers. Moss, a 2018 graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, is the first openly autistic female attorney in the State of Florida.
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