{"id":115909,"date":"2025-04-21T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/21\/willy-wonkas-in-house-counsel-is-the-best-lawyer-parody-youll-watch-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:03:21","slug":"willy-wonkas-in-house-counsel-is-the-best-lawyer-parody-youll-watch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/21\/willy-wonkas-in-house-counsel-is-the-best-lawyer-parody-youll-watch-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Wonka\u2019s In-House Counsel Is The Best Lawyer Parody You\u2019ll Watch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Sure, serving the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was a dream job for a lot of years, but then one day the boss decided to run that Golden Ticket contest and everything went off the rails from there.<\/p>\n

Minor Character Theater has a mockumentary profiling a trying time in the life of Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, former general counsel to the Wonka company. <\/p>\n

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Part 1 of WILLY WONKA AND THE CORPORATE ATTORNEY, a parody mockumentary of the classic movie told from the perspective of the controversial Wonka Candy Company\u2019s in-house legal counsel! Hope you enjoy this nostalgia trip full of jokes to the candy factory! \ud83c\udfed WATCH THE FULL VERSION NOW ON YT! #willywonka<\/a> #lawyersoftiktok<\/a> #sketchcomedy<\/a> #comedyskit<\/a> #spoof<\/a> This is intended as a transformative parody under fair use, please don\u2019t get mad.<\/p>\n

\u266c original sound \u2013 Minor Character Theater<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

This is only the first of a six-part series. You can check out the whole run over on TikTok<\/a>, including an inside look at the creation of the company\u2019s infamous waiver, Oompa Loompa overtime, and what Willy Wonka learned from Succession<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Also, if you\u2019re in law school and think you can create content like this, you have the rest of this week to enter the Law Revue contest<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Willy Wonka\u2019s In-House Counsel Is The Best Lawyer Parody You\u2019ll Watch Today<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Sure, serving the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was a dream job for a lot of years, but then one day the boss decided to run that Golden Ticket contest and everything went off the rails from there.<\/p>\n

Minor Character Theater has a mockumentary profiling a trying time in the life of Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, former general counsel to the Wonka company. <\/p>\n

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@minorcharactertheater<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1 of WILLY WONKA AND THE CORPORATE ATTORNEY, a parody mockumentary of the classic movie told from the perspective of the controversial Wonka Candy Company\u2019s in-house legal counsel! Hope you enjoy this nostalgia trip full of jokes to the candy factory! \ud83c\udfed WATCH THE FULL VERSION NOW ON YT! #willywonka<\/a> #lawyersoftiktok<\/a> #sketchcomedy<\/a> #comedyskit<\/a> #spoof<\/a> This is intended as a transformative parody under fair use, please don\u2019t get mad.<\/p>\n

\u266c original sound \u2013 Minor Character Theater<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

This is only the first of a six-part series. You can check out the whole run over on TikTok<\/a>, including an inside look at the creation of the company\u2019s infamous waiver, Oompa Loompa overtime, and what Willy Wonka learned from Succession<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Also, if you\u2019re in law school and think you can create content like this, you have the rest of this week to enter the Law Revue contest<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Sure, serving the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was a dream job for a lot of years, but then one day the boss decided to run that Golden Ticket contest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Headshot-300x200-OEEdr4.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}