My First Client (2019) on Netflix
Jung-yeop, a rookie lawyer hungry for success, takes his first client: Da-bin, ten, who insists she killed her younger brother. The case looks suspicious, and he cannot walk away from it.
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Plot summary
Jung-yeop is a rookie lawyer with little success behind him, hungry for a career. He works at a children's center in a regional area, where he meets the siblings Da-bin and her younger brother, and though he wants success as a lawyer, he cares nothing for the children's welfare. When a big law firm hires him, he leaves the area. Da-bin, ten years old, becomes his first client and insists that she killed her younger brother by beating him. The case looks suspicious to Jung-yeop, and he cannot turn his back on it. The story draws on a criminal case from South Korea in 2013.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My First Client (2019)
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- The 2019 South Korean film was based on the Chilgok child abuse death case involving a stepmother, which occurred in August 2013.
