{"id":1603,"date":"2019-02-13T00:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?page_id=1603"},"modified":"2019-02-13T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:44:36","slug":"female-attorneys-in-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/female-attorneys-in-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Attorneys in Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Grace (2015). Thirty minute documentary about Grace Day, one of the first women to practice law in the Kansas City area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/kansascity\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/kcpt-documentary-lawyer-grace-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCPT Will Air Documentary On Trailblazing Local Female Lawyer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6098296\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balancing the Scales<\/a> (R &amp; K Productions\/Skydive Films, 2016). A documentary about famous attorneys such as Justice Ginsburg and Gloria Allred, and younger attorneys beginning their careers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1445203\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot Coffee<\/a> (Hot Coffee\/If Not Now\/The Group Entertainment, 2011). Former trial lawyer Susan Saladoff directs and produces this documentary about the &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s coffee case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6246092\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Judge<\/a> (Idle Wild Films, 2017). A documentary about Kholoud al-Faqih, the first female judge appointed to a Shari&#8217;a court in the Middle East.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4336186\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motley&#8217;s Law<\/a> (Made in Copenhagen\/Level K, 2015). Kimberley Motley is a U.S. defense lawyer who works as a human rights attorney in Kabul, Afghanistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/05\/world\/asia\/us-lawyer-afghanistan-kimberley-chongyon-motley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Jolly, Outspoken, American and a Woman: Afghanistan&#8217;s Only Foreign Litigattor Stands Out, NYT, March 4, 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kimberley_motley_how_i_defend_the_rule_of_law\/discussion?c=141976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimberley Motley. TED Talk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7689964\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RBG<\/a> (CNN Films\/Magnolia Pictures, 2018). An acclaimed documentary on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7689924\/reference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeing Allred<\/a> (Netflix, 2018). A documentary about attorney Gloria Allred. Also with Lisa Bloom, Allred&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Grace (2015). Thirty minute documentary about Grace Day, one of the first women to practice law in the Kansas City area.&nbsp; KCPT Will Air Documentary On Trailblazing Local Female Lawyer Balancing the Scales&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1603","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PasVL2-pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1603\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}