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| | Taking the Stand: Lawyers on Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | Similarly, with the same focus on talk show commentaries, the news, and actual television coverage of some trials, the publics perception of the legal system, and perforce its conclusions about it, are limited and distorted. |
 | | The personal lives of the attorneys were part of the shows, too, as the one-dimensional character of lawyers in earlier eras was shed for more human, many-dimensioned treatments of their love lives, families, and general dilemmas and idiosyncrasies. |
 | | And of course, Court TV has taken the lawyering phenomenon to the point where a whole network is devoted to trials in real casesmostly, though not exclusively, criminal cases. |
| www.dcbar.org /for_lawyers/washington_lawyer/june_2004/tvlawyer.cfm (2468 words) |
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