When it comes to space adventures, Marvel's heroes tend to get into trouble pretty quickly. Surrounded by advanced races such as the Skrull, Kree, and Shi'ar - whose societies hold together many different planets and cultures - Earth heroes blunder in and do whatever they think needs doing, whatever the consequences. Because of that, heroes like the Guardians of the Galaxy and the New Mutants can find themselves needing legal representation fast, and luckily there's one lawyer who's always prepared to help - Murd Blurdock, Attorney at Law. It's a pity he's the worst lawyer in the universe.
First appearing in Rocket #2 by Al Ewing, Adam Gorham, and Michael Garland, Blurdock is an Echomelian from Everett-5 - a lizard-like race born without eyes. Working with his partner Frogurt "Froggy" Frelson, Blurdock is touted as a great lawyer with a very particular advantage - like all Echomelians, Blurdock possesses "echo-senses" that help him guess how the judge and jury feel about a case. So why does he keep landing Marvel heroes in jail?
In fact, it's implied that Blurdock has a secret power - eyes. Yes, Blurdock is one of two Echomelians with huge, chameleon-like eyes, which his partner explains as scars from a childhood accident when Blurdock was struck in the face by some radioactive "originum." Blurdock is also such a supernaturally gifted attorney that Froggy says it's as if he has some kind of "visual sense" that allows him to see the expressions of everyone in the room. It's an idea that's almost unheard of for Echomelians, with the exception of the Echomelian vigilante Seeing Being. Of course, Blurdock couldn't be this sighted hero, because the Seeing Being was recently revealed to have been Blurdock's twin brother all along.
Marvel fans will have quickly picked up that Blurdock and Froggy are a very thinly veiled pastiche of Marvel hero Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, and his legal partner Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, right down to Matt's fictional twin brother. Struck by a radioactive isotope in his childhood, Daredevil lost the power of sight but gained a "radar sense" that makes him a particularly effective lawyer. That is, when being a superhero doesn't drag him away from his work. Sadly, this is an issue which Blurdock also brings to his profession - he never actually helps Rocket Raccoon win his case, because right after he enters the courtroom, another Echomelian - dressed almost exactly like Marvel hero Elektra - enters the room and holds up a sign that reads, "COME FIGHT NINJAS" and he bolts for the door to Froggy and Rocket's miserable surprise.
Rocket ultimately defends himself and loses, but it turns out he wouldn't have been much better off if Blurdock had stuck around. In New Mutants #2, the team find themselves locked up in Shi'ar space. Team leader Roberto da Costa hires Blurdock on the advice of his treacherous Earth legal team - who'd rather he didn't come back - and while the case itself isn't shown, writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Rod Reis do include the court's thoughts on Blurdock's performance, with a summary of the case stating:
According to a prearranged agreement with the Imperial High Council, the above Defendants have been remanded into the custody of an Imperial Guardsman to serve out the duration of their sentence. ... The court further orders that the Defendants' space lawyer be sanctioned for incompetence. He was, literally, the worst space lawyer money can buy.
It's surprising that a pastiche of Matt Murdock - who, for all his faults, is usually written as a great lawyer - would specifically be called out as a bad legal representative, especially since his echo-senses are supposed to be so useful, but it seems fair to assume that as with Rocket, Blurdock just wasn't able to put the hours in to build a watertight defense. While Rocket Raccoon and the New Mutants were ultimately able to escape imprisonment in their own ways, their experiences with Murd Blurdock was a fun way to see Daredevil's adventures from another perspective - that of the clients he leaves in the lurch whenever he'd rather be off fighting ninjas on the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen.