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Reese Witherspoon Was Once Made Jury Foreman Because Jurors Assumed ‘Legally Blonde’ Meant She’d Been to Law School

Reese Witherspoon Was Once Made Jury Foreman Because Jurors Assumed ‘Legally Blonde’ Meant She’d Been to Law School

Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Jury duty is where you find out the legal system is run by regular people. People with jobs, opinions and, occasionally, a hazy memory of a movie they saw once. Which is roughly how Reese Witherspoon ended up running a jury room in Beverly Hills. Not because she volunteered. Because the other jurors were fairly…