[MUSIC PLAYING]
ELLE WOODS: Harvard Law School?
SPEAKER 1: You got into Harvard Law?
ELLE WOODS: What, like it's hard?
SPEAKER 2: Mr. Hart, here's a dime.
Call your mother.
Tell here there's serious doubt about your becoming a lawyer.
SPEAKER 3: You were first in the class?
SPEAKER 4: Not quite, third.
SPEAKER 3: Only third, huh?
SPEAKER 4: Hey, but that means I make the law review.
Well, say something, will you please?
SPEAKER 3: Not until I've met numbers one and two.
SPEAKER 5: So what's this boy's name?
MICHELLE OBAMA: Barack Obama.
SPEAKER 5: Barack a-what-a?
SPEAKER 6: No associate's every failed the bar exam, you know?
SPEAKER 7: No associate of the firm
has ever failed the bar exam.
SPEAKER 8: Oh, no associate of this firm
has ever failed the bar exam.
SPEAKER 9: No kidding.
SPEAKER 10: Did they know you were first in your class
at Harvard Law School?
SPEAKER 11: Hey, don't talk to me like I'm an idiot.
I was first in my class at Harvard Law School.
SPEAKER 12: There we go. What do you got?
SPEAKER 10: 43 seconds.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG: I'm Ruth Ginsburg from Brooklyn.
SPEAKER 13: And why are you here, Miss Ginsburg?
RUTH BADER GINSBURG: Mrs. Ginsburg, actually.
My husband Marty is in the second-year class.
I'm at Harvard to learn more about his work
so I can be a more patient and understanding wife.
ELLE WOODS: In my three years at Harvard,
I have come to find that passion is
a key ingredient to the study and practice of law.
It is with passion, courage of conviction,
and strong sense of self that we take
our next steps into the world.