Arthur Edens In The Film

While watching this movie I was really paying attention to the way the different attorney’s acted when approaching the case at hand. The first attorney I’ll start with is Michael Clayton, though Clayton isn’t on the litigation team he plays a key role in the film. Clayton is what is known as a “fixer” in the world of law, his job is to clean up the messes for the law firm he works for. Throughout the movie Clayton refers himself as the “janitor,” since he has to make sure that Arthur Edens stays on track with his current case. Now since I’ve already mentioned him, next we will talk about Arthur Edens, Edens is a senior litigation partner in the film as well as a good friend of Clayton and Marty Bach. Edens is the lead attorney for the U-North …show more content…
Throughout the case Edens exhibits erratic behavior after going off his bipolar medication. This not only threatens this case but the entire firm as Edens has discovered that the weed killer that U-North has produced is known to be carcinogenic, meaning it has potential to cause cancer. Edens knowing this information is planning on outing is own client, but before he can do that he murdered by 2 hitmen hired by Karen Crowder. The last attorney we will talk about is Karen Crowder, Crowder is the general counsel at U-North and a ruthless lawyer who is on the verge of a mental breakdown. We see that Crowder is on the verge of a mental breakdown at the beginning of the movie when she’s in the bathroom. Throughout the entire movie Crowder is ruthless and will do anything to win this deposition. Crowder at the beginning of the movie discovers that Edens got his hands on confidential U-North documents is planning to expose U-North on the toxic chemicals in the weed killer. At this point she confides in the CEO, Don Jefferies of her findings. After Crowder brings this to light to Jefferies, he puts Crowder in contact with 2 hitmen, who bug Edens apartment and ultimately murder Edens on his