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	Legal Degrees - Find Criminal Justice Degrees and Paralegal Schools in Your Area
		In the past, it was typical for legal secretaries to be trained on the job as paralegals and no formal education was required.
		Several of the top 100 shoes of the past decade have been based on the legal industry, and with good reason: the legal industry carries a huge social responsibility to interpret and implement the law, protecting millions of innocent victims every year.
		The legal industry on TV is a fast-paced world of crime, drama, and redemption.
	www.legaldegrees.net (649 words)

	Legal drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, conflict between parties make for an interesting story, which is why legal dramas emphasize the trial and ignore the fact that the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States are settled out of court.
		Legal dramas also focus on situations where there is an obvious injustice or ones in which either the plaintiff or defendant is very interesting and unusual.
		Finally, legal dramas often focus on areas of the legal process which can be portrayed dramatically, such as oral arguments, and ignore areas which are less easily portrayed, such as researching a written legal brief.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legal_drama (228 words)

	Boston Legal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boston Legal (working title Fleet Street) is an ABC television series that is a spin-off to the long-running legal drama The Practice.
		Thus, the story of Boston Legal can be said to begin with the episode of The Practice in which Eugene Young (Steve Harris) and Jimmy Berlutti of Young, Frutt and Berlutti decided to fire Alan Shore (James Spader) without consulting Ellenor Frutt, beginning a story arc of several episodes.
		Even with all this preparation, the official premiere episode for Boston Legal does introduce new characters, such as partner Paul Lewiston (Rene Auberjonois, in a role different from his tenure as a hapless judge on The Practice), and has an interesting cameo with Reverend Al Sharpton as himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boston_Legal (1510 words)

	Encyclopedia: Legal drama
		A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution).
		Law in fiction A melodrama, in the broadest sense, is a serious drama that can be distinguished from tragedy by the fact that it is open to having a happy ending.
		In the common law, legal fictions, are suppositions of fact taken to be true by the courts of law, but which are not necessarily true.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Legal-drama (730 words)

	Legal drama is typical Grisham
		"Tort" is a legal term that describes an innocent person being hurt in some way by an action or product; the injured party then brings a civil action against the person or company.
		Modern-day legal history is rife with examples of hustling lawyers rounding up hundreds or thousands of supposedly injured parties and combining their cases into one mega-suit.
		At 31, Clay Carter is scraping the bottom of the legal barrel.
	www.freep.com /features/books/grish16_20030216.htm (750 words)

	Legal Writing Pedagogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Legal writing is of such fundamental importance in the life of a lawyer that complaints registered against life-less forms of teaching can be set-aside.
		To conclude that legal writing is painstaking work, requires discipline not enjoyable when imposed, and must be approached in a methodical manner, we have drawn a step closer to the fears that shadow legal writing.
		While writing, legal and otherwise, evokes defensiveness, and then outright fear and loathing, it is a central, core, performative tasks, and cannot, without massive effort and energy be denied, subdued into silence by the success of having gotten oneself in law school.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/writeshop/legal_writ_teach.html (3121 words)

	screenonline: Legal Drama
		The legal profession seems always to have provoked cynical and rueful comment, but on television, at least, lawyers have usually been cast in heroic moulds.
		Kavanagh QC The eponymous advocates are invariably masters at using the system to their best advantage, and remain cool and calculating under pressure, without losing sight of the human dimension to their case.
		The 13-part serial Jury (BBC, 1983) looks outwardly like a standard fictional drama, but while the case was heard in court in linear fashion, the private lives of its jurors were presented in parallel but not necessarily in the same time frame.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1201669 (990 words)

	'Boston Legal' presents its case on a new night
		In a bid to re-acquaint viewers with the show, which has been off the air since March, ABC is re-running the series premiere of the quirky law drama on its new day and time.
		"Legal" is something of an acquired taste: If you don't appreciate the enjoyably hammy Shatner or the skeezy charisma of Spader, this is probably not the show for you.
		Then again, if you dig the palpable chemistry these two evenly matched oddballs bring to the TV screen, not to mention "Boston" creator David E. Kelley's unconventional take on legal drama, the coming season should be even more of a treat.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/tv/articles/0809bostonlegal.html (509 words)

	The Defenders
		The series boasted a direct lineage to the age of live television drama, but also possessed a concern for topical issues and a penchant for social comment that were singularly resonant with New Frontier liberalism.
		Although both were nominally "courtroom dramas" or "lawyer shows," Perry Mason was first and foremost a classical detective story whose climax played out in the courtroom, while The Defenders focused on the machinery of the law, the vagaries of the legal process, and system's capacity for justice.
		Rose and his writers found much compelling drama in probing the psychology of juries, the motives of clients, the biases of opposing counsel, the flaws of the system itself, and the fallibility of their own lawyer-heroes.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/defendersth/defendersth.htm (1458 words)

	Legal drama -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A legal drama is a work of dramatic (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact) fiction about law, crime, punishment or the legal profession.
		It is widely believed by most practicing (A professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice) lawyers that legal dramas result in the general public having misconceptions about the legal process.
		As a result, things such as the (Click link for more info and facts about insanity defense) insanity defense occur far more often in legal drama than in real life.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/legal_drama.htm (252 words)

	The Practice TV Show - The Practice Television Show - TV.com
		David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning legal drama, The Practice, had eight amazing seasons, with promising, provocative, issue-related stories, coupled with the writer's trademark humor.
		Legal maneuvering is the firm's modus operandi, and...
		A strong legal drama centered more around the court cases - rather than the lives of the attorneys that fight them.
	www.tv.com /practice/show/223/summary.html (461 words)

	Politics the guiding light in this legal drama - Opinion - smh.com.au
		Of course, these orders are a contentious legal issue and Bennett unbottled the main arguments run by the Government in opposing the constitutional challenge by Jack Thomas against the control order legislation.
		A number of "circumstances" were advanced to the court in support of the legislation, including some rather startling information, such as the availability of explosives and germs, the existence of cities and the high value we place on human life.
		A former judge of the Federal Court, Bill Pincus, rose to his feet at the legal convention to tell the Solicitor-General that in Queensland these "ex parte" applications, as they are called, hardly ever fail.
	www.smh.com.au /news/opinion/politics-the-guiding-light-in-this-legal-drama/2007/04/12/1175971263003.html (922 words)

	The Practice article - The Practice March 1997 16 2004 legal drama David E. Kelley Boston, Massachusetts - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It will be followed with a spin-off legal drama, Boston Legal, in fall 2004.
		There were a number of crossovers with other David E. Kelley shows, including Boston Public, Ally McBeal and the short-lived medical drama Gideon's Crossing.
		By the end of the seventh season, faced with sagging ratings, ABC conditioned the show's renewal on a drastic budget reduction.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/The_Practice (229 words)

	Boston Legal TV Show - Boston Legal Television Show - TV.com
		A spin-off of the ABC series, The Practice, Boston Legal shows the law in a diverse tone.
		JUDGING AMY is a drama starring Amy Brenneman as a single mother who has left New York behind to become a Family Court judge in Hartford, Connecticut.
		On this critically acclaimed drama about a top Los Angeles law firm, some of the best battles take place outside of the courtroom.
	www.tv.com /boston-legal/show/25525/summary.html (470 words)

	As a ruthless attorney with a softer side, James Woods is the hook of CBS's new legal drama `Shark' - The Boston Globe
		As a ruthless attorney with a softer side, James Woods is the hook of CBS's new legal drama `Shark' - The Boston Globe
		It isn't an awful legal procedural, and tonight's episode is directed by Spike Lee without a dull moment.
		But the CBS series is still just another rote opportunity for a hero to strut his hour upon the courtroom stage during stock, case-of-the-week trials.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2006/09/21/shark_star_woods_is_legal_dramas_hook (630 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - WB Shares 'Just Legal' with TNT
		"'Just Legal' is such a well-done new procedural legal drama that we're excited to get it exposed to as wide an audience as possible.
		"Just Legal" stars Don Johnson as a burned-out, cynical defense attorney and Jay Baruchel ("Undeclared") as a 19-year-old prodigy who's passed the bar but can't find work at other firms because of his youth.
		Repurposing broadcast-network shows on cable is a fairly common practice, but "Just Legal" may be the first show to have a cable repeat immediately follow an episode's premiere on its home network.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|97531\|1\|,00.html (248 words)

	The Hindu : What makes soaps tick?
		While Americans are obsessed with legal drama, Indian TV audiences are suckers for family sagas with enough twists and turns to make the producers of ``The Bold and The Beautiful'' envious.
		In a country where legal recourse is commonly resorted to in most walks of life, people like to watch court cases as drama, and they like to watch fiction where you can relate to lawyers as idealised professionals as well as sometimes flawed, vulnerable human beings.
		Court TV is reality TV but the genre of legal drama that fictionalises the profession is the popular prime time staple on network TV.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/08/17/stories/09170461.htm (1215 words)

	Boston Legal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He helped free the form from the stiff "Perry Mason"-style formula to one that features multiple stories, inter-law firm drama and quirky legal issues that never are quite what they seem to be.
		Legal tiffs in and out of the courtroom could become heated and petty jealousies might sprout from time to time, but "L.A. Law" and, later, "The Practice," were centered on law firms led by men of principle and ethics.
		In the "Boston Legal" opener, a senior partner also exits the firm on a gurney, this time the result of a darkly comedic nervous breakdown.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000651380 (473 words)

	WSVN-TV - Abuse Allegations Bring New Twist To Schiavo Legal Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In an 11-page confidential document detailing why the social services agency wants to intervene in the case, the DCF said it needs the time to adequately investigate allegations that the 41-year-woman at the center of a life-or-death legal battle between her husband and parents has been mistreated.
		The DCF request was shared with attorneys in the case, said Matt Davis, an attorney with the law firm representing Bob and Mary Schindler.
		Court-appointed doctors have ruled Terri Schiavo suffered such severe brain damage when a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop beating that she is in a persistent vegetative state.
	www.wsvn.com /news/articles/local/C69630 (932 words)

	Media Life Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The WB’s “Just Legal” was an experiment, a test to see if the WB could lure viewers who regularly watch lawyer dramas on the Big Four networks.
		“Legal” viewers’ median age was 48.2 years old, making it by far the oldest show on the WB.
		Another problem for “Legal” was that its lead-in, “Seventh Heaven,” is way down this year in almost every demo, showing natural erosion for a 10-year-old program.
	medialifemagazine.com /artman/publish/article_550.asp (513 words)

	Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News : CBS lines up sci fi-legal drama for mid season package
		Another case involves a man accused of robbery when he ‘steals’ back his identity from his ex-fiancé who has uploaded his presence onto all of her electronics.
		As this diverse group of attorneys find themselves in uncharted legal territory, their cases provide a look into issues confronting society in the not-so-distant future.
		The next season of the more conventional legal drama The Guardian with Simon Baker returns for another season on 27 April.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/jan/jan170.htm (225 words)

	Perry Mason
		When the CBS television series was developed as an evening drama, the radio series was changed from Perry Mason to The Edge of Night and the cast renamed so as not to compete against the television series.
		As evidence mounts against his client, Mason pulls out a legal maneuver involving some courtroom "pyrotechnics." This not only proves his client innocent, but identifies the real culprit.
		Each episode is a carefully structured detective puzzle that both established and perpetuated a number of conventions associated with most television detective series.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/perrymason/perrymason.htm (1041 words)

	Allen Coulter Returns To TV with Legal Drama
		Allen Coulter has signed on to direct a new legal drama pilot for FX.
		The Hollywood Reporter describes it as a character-driven legal thriller set in New York.
		No studio has picked up the drama as of yet.
	www.movieweb.com /tv/news/67/15367.php (252 words)

	ipedia.com: Legal drama Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Legal drama or courtroom drama are stories, usually written in novel form but sometimes in dramatic form, about topics related to the legal profession.
		Legal drama or courtroom drama are stories, usually written in novel form but sometimes in dramatic form (for the stage or TV), about topics related to the legal profession.
		This is the fastest growing category of fiction; books by authors such as John Grisham have been consistent bestsellers.
	www.ipedia.com /legal_drama.html (280 words)

	washingtonpost.com: One Star's Trek Into Legal Drama
		Shatner picked up a Creative Arts Emmy on Sept. 12 as best guest actor in a drama series for his appearances last season on "The Practice." His character, an eccentric lawyer named Denny Crane, returns in a principal role on executive producer David E. Kelley's new "Boston Legal."
		If "Boston Legal" fulfills its promise, it should have as long a run as any other David Kelley series.
		When Kelley's legal shows are good, the twists and turns take viewers on extended and exhilarating rides.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A58525-2004Sep28?language=printer (1079 words)

	the makers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Street Legal, which they had been developing since 1993.
		The founders see the company as a vehicle which allows them to keep their hands directly on the creative process and do better and more satisfying work.
		We first started developing the idea in 1993, it has had a long germination and so is very personal for us.
	www.streetlegal.co.nz /makers.htm (1028 words)

	MSBA.org Publications: Bar Bulletin
		The 2003 championship match between Elizabeth Seton High School in Prince George’s County and Bishop Walsh High School in Allegany County was held in the Court of Appeals courtroom in Annapolis on April 25 with the Honorable Glenn T. Harrell, Court of Appeals of Maryland, presiding.
		The competition also attracts family and community support, so roughly 6,500 people were involved in the Association’s public education program, gaining a new appreciation and understanding of our legal system.
		Most teams devote an average 100+ hours of preparation and competition time to the mock trial program, although the time commitment does go as high as 150 hours for some teams.
	www.msba.org /departments/commpubl/publications/bar_bult/2003/may03/mocktrial.htm (811 words)

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