I’ve been mulling over starting a poll about who is everyone’s favorite TV/Movie attorney, so I’m throwing the floor open to nominations. We could have different categories for prosecutor/D.A., defense attorney, etc. Who should we include?
My nominations, in no particular order, are:
Ben Stone, ADA Law & Order
Jack McCoy, ADA * Law & Order*
Dan Fielding, state’s attorney Night Court
Christine Sullivan, public defender Night Court
Beth Davenport, defense attorney The Rockford Files
Joyce Davenport, defense attorney Hill Street Blues
Ben Matlock, defense attorney Matlock
Ed Danvers, state’s attorney Homicide: Life on the Street
Mitch McDeere (The Firm) should at least be on the poll.
Mickey Haller (The Lincoln Lawyer, et al.), if only for being Harry Bosch’s half-brother.
A late fourth season episode has Perry getting a phone call from a fellow attorney who is getting his ass handed to him by the D.A. Perry hangs up the phone and makes a bee-line for the door, explaining his haste to Della with the line “It’s looking like Hamilton Burger might win a case!”
I saw “The Case of the Terrified Typist” a couple of years ago. Perry lost, but it didn’t matter because the case hinged on a fraudulent identity and a murder that never really happened. The judge indicated he was throwing the whole case out, and there would be a retrial once they got things sorted out.
Confusing as hell, but the look on Perry’s face when he lost was priceless!
If Dan and Christine are in the running then so is Barry Zuckercorn and since I was never into law shows if we can include shows that included a lawyer but didn’t focus around law, I’ll toss in Will Truman.
