Scum of Lawyers) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Iura [ja].

The series follows Mami Takeda, a new lawyer, and her partnership with fellow attorney Motohito Kuzu, as they deal with challenging court cases.

Written and illustrated by Hideo Iura [ja], Bengoshi no Kuzu started in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original on August 5, 2003.

[a] The manga reached 99 chapters on June 5, 2010,[5][6] and starting on July 5 of that same year, it changed its title to Bengoshi no Kuzu Dai-2 Shin (弁護士のくず 第二審).

[1] In August 2010, the Intellectual Property High Court ruled out in favour of Iura and Shogakukan, stating that Uchida's work is not a novel, but "a document that clearly describes social events that were widely reported at the time", and that the manga is "merely based on these real-life events, and there is no copyright infringement.