'What, like it's hard?': 'Legally Blonde' inspired a generation of law students to be themselves
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When lawyer Sigrid Boggan was in her early teens, she was first introduced to a movie about a blonde, pink-clad sorority girl-turned-Harvard Law student.
Now 30 and a graduate of Howard University and Georgetown University's law programs, Boggan looks back fondly on "Legally Blonde," her favorite movie that first introduced her to the field she now works in and inspired her Instagram handle (@the_black_ellewoods) – not to mention the pink blazer she often wore to class.
"She's not what you think of when you think of an attorney," Boggan says of the movie's main character, Elle Woods (played by Reese Witherspoon). "You think super smart, boring, serious, but Elle is just a regular person. You trust her… she's one of us."
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