Elle Woods, a former Malibu Barbie who loved nothing more than her boyfriend and sorority sisters, is perfectly happy to get her MRS degree and settle down with boy toy, Warner.   However, when the previously stated boyfriend decides she doesn't provide the "right" first impression as he considers a future in politics, he breaks up with her.  Elle doggedly decides to follow her boyfriend to Harvard after graduation by studying, taking the LSAT's and providing a pretty unique personal essay.  Along the way, she learns that Warner may have been her reason to attend Harvard, but her reason to stay and succeed is because she values people, ethics and finally herself.  She may indeed be "blonde" but through determination becomes "legally blonde."