1991: An American Lawyer

[United States] [Ace Attorney] [A Thrill with Every Case] [Lawyer] [1991] [Kill Line] [Chinese American Comeback]

Los Angeles, 1991.

Zhang Lin, a top trial lawyer in China, opens his eyes to find that he has transmigrated into a rookie Chinese American lawyer whom everyone at the firm calls "Charlie."

His father is hospitalized after a stroke and owes $41,000. The insurance company won't pay a cent.

His boss dumps a hopeless case with a $500,000 claim on him, just waiting to make him take the fall.

A trust-fund colleague makes a bet in front of everyone: if Zhang loses, he has to stand on a desk and shout, "I don't deserve to be a lawyer!"

On the day of the trial, Zhang Lin looks up and freezes: above each of the twelve jurors hangs a glass scale, tipping toward whoever they favor!

A kindly old woman with a beaming smile? He gets her removed from the jury with a single gesture!

An orthopedic authority splitting the money with the plaintiff's lawyer? Three questions leave him in ruins!

A single mother who claims she can't get out of bed? Zhang whips out a photo of her winning that month's top sales award right there in court!

A $500,000 claim is slashed to $812 in open court!

The bet is settled, and the trust-fund colleague has to wipe his right foot, then his left, in front of the whole firm!

From a Chinese American lawyer scraping by at the bottom of Los Angeles to the king of televised trials across America and the bane of Wall Street tycoons.

Years later, America's powerful line up to donate to his campaign, crying, "Just get him into the White House already! As long as he stops going to court, he can do whatever he wants!"