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Adele Lowitz Analysis

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In Adele Lowitz’s memoir, Adele Lowitz: the Lawyer with a Choice she perfectly outlines the consternation of someone in the high position that she once held just a few years ago. Adele served at the head lawyer on one of the most publicised, overt and important and funny law cases in American history. This case which was entitled “SNL vs. the President” was fought between the executive producer of the popular TV show Saturday Night Live and the President of the United States over a joke made on air that was particularly offensive to the leader of the free world. Although it may seem like a non important case in American history, it was actually a turning point in the ability of the media and the power that the government holds. Adele was a powerful lawyer before the case. She graduated at the top of her law school class and was immediately hired by one of the biggest law firms in America. Her younger brother of three years on the other hand was a comedian. He had become an incredibly famous comedian, taking over the Late Night Show For Jimmy Kimmel. Luckily for Adele, her brother had never been on Saturday night …show more content…

She had been successful and made enough money to support her family for many years. One day, in January of 2036, Adele got two very important calls that changed her career forever. In the morning, the executive producer of Saturday Night Live called and asked Adele to represent the show in the case. Later in the day, the President of the United States himself called Adele to ask her to be the head lawyer on his side of the case. The pile of pro con lists for each side acreted on her desk. This is described in the memoir as “the hardest decision I ever had to make” according to Lowitz. She describes how being a pragmatic decision maker further pushed her to make the right decision of which side to defend, win the case and eventually become the most successful female lawyer of all

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