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查维基百科，还看到一段关于影视作品里的paralegal，引用如下，蛮有意思的，分享一下：
Paralegals in films, television and literature
Unlike nurses and
physician assistants, paralegals have not caught the popular imagination and rarely are seen or mentioned in fictional or non-fiction legal television programs, or in legal fiction in print. There are however exceptions.
The most famous is probably
Erin Brockovich, a real legal clerk whose participation in a
toxic tort case became a major motion picture. In the movie
Eagle Eye (2008) starring
Shia LaBeouf and
Michelle Monaghan, Monaghan plays a single mom who works as a paralegal.
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Another notable exception is the character
Della Street, from the
Perry Mason novel, television and movie series. Although Mason identifies Della as "my confidential secretary", the projects he assigns her are entirely consistent with the law office work performed by experienced paralegals.
John Grisham includes many paralegals in his novel; for example, Rudy Baylor (the main character in
Rainmaker) works briefly as a paralegal - and his associate Deck subsequently becomes Rudy's paralegal when he starts his own firm.
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, an esoteric cartoon comedy, features a paralegal in the form of Avenger, who is usually seen managing files, preparing and presenting documents to the attorneys, and drafting letters to clients. Avenger will usually accompany the charismatic, yet often under-prepared, Birdman into court, and whisper case information and advice into his ear. Despite not knowing English, he is by far the most competent employee of Sebben & Sebben.
The most current example is likely contained in
FX's
The Riches in which Doug Rich, a con-artist played by
Eddie Izzard, impersonates a lawyer at a cutthroat real estate development company. Rich's apparent lack of legal knowledge is often compensated by Aubrey McDonald, a highly-skilled paralegal who manages to help guide the under-educated anti-hero through more than a few sticky situations.
我只看过
Erin Brockovich；另外在最近追的美剧Boston Legal里面，有一集讲到一个关于个人诉美国国防部（关于军方用误导和不全面之辞招募新兵去伊拉克打仗的），原告就是一个paralegal，当然她本人并没有太多戏份……
