Hear me out, y’all. Bruce keeps a whole team of attorneys on retainer. The brightest barristers money can buy. All well and good. Private firms and in-house counsel working around the clock to keep the Wayne family name and wealth in good standing for generations to come.
Within that veritable army of the best legal minds in the world is a smaller, more skilled, absolutely fucking terrifying contingent. And I’m not just talking Ivy League graduates at Wall Street firms - I mean all walks of life, all different schools, people Wayne Enterprises scouted for and tapped because they saw potential in them and goddamn, the balls and brains on them need to be cultivated and harnessed for good. They’re the courtroom equivalents of Batman.
Those, my dudes (gender neutral), are the attorneys kept on retainer for Batman and Justice League-related business.
It starts off with a single attorney. Unapologetically black, unrepentantly bold, and unreasonably smart. Bright red lipstick and box braids in a sea of neutral tones and pantsuits. She’s a few years out of law school and works with the Attorney General. She takes Lex Luthor to task. Not like other attorneys haven’t tried, but after a particularly unpleasant court battle, she does the previously impossible - she gets Lex put into prison and tanks LexCorp’s stock. Sure, Lex gets out, but the black stain on his previously clean record and the year it takes to earn back billions of dollars? It stings in a way the public can see and it makes this previously unknown lawyer a star.
Bruce approaches her as Batman and says he’d like to give her a job. She doesn’t bat an eye before asking how much he’s paying because I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m kind of a big deal. I put Lex Luthor behind bars. I graduated top of my class. I’m an up-and-coming legal legend. Can you afford my services?
In a bold move, Bruce sits at her desk and takes off his cowl. She blinks and raises an eyebrow. They shake hands and discuss what sort of legal needs superheroes have. She puts in her two-week notice the next day and becomes the Justice League’s first legal advisor.
Her first job? Representing Superman in a custody battle for his clone kid with—fuck, this guy? Again?