You’re a character on a TV show and you need a TV character lawyer. Perhaps Pendleton and Bayliss are slapping you around in the box. Who do you call, and why?
Me, I’m calling Beth Davenport from The Rockford Files. She’s smart, gutsy and takes on clients like Rockford (and me) who are apt not to have the money to pay her right away.
Perry Mason.
Mac Coy (SP?) from Law and Order!!
I like the Jag lawyers, Harman Rabb and the others. Also Perry Mason. Almost forgot about him til I read above post.
Victor Cifuentes. That guy took it right to you, man.
Ben Stone from Law & Order.
1 Rosalind Shays
2 Perry Mason
3 Victor Sifuentes
4 Ben Sone
5 Eugene Young
I second McCoy from L&O, even if he’s a DA. Even in real life, I’d love to have the show’s writers defend me.
Horace Rumpole.
HA! You think you’ll stand a chance up against my Hamilton Berger?
Arthur Gold from L&O. He was a defense attorney famous for his Mountains of Motions Make Multitudes of Mistakes.
Patti Lupone was pretty good too.
Lionel Hutz-
If he doesn’t win- I score a free pizza!
Plus I always can fall back on a ineffective counsel claim on appeal.
Perry Mason is my serious answer. 
The Biscuit. He always wins even the most ridiculous of cases even when he doesn’t have any legal ground to stand on. (Maybe his nose-whistle is more like Bewitched Samantha’s nose-wiggle and he wins by abusing magical powers.)
Second choice would be McCoy because he seems to ruthlessly want to win (that would be a good thing to have on your side).
Who I would never in a million years pick: Matlock.
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Damn you, SDMB hampster! Damn you to hell!
what I meant to say was:
My TV lawyer would be Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. He’s solar powered, has a fifteen-foot wingspan, shoots rays from his ring, and has a cool theme song:
“Whoooo is the man in the suuuuit…”
Either him or his arch enemy Reducto, who has a shrink ray.
I just hope that the judge will not be Mentoch, the Mind Taker.
(incidentally, am I up for the Shortest Post in SDMB History Award?)
I’d go with Matt Murdock from the Trial of the Incredible Hulk. He is willing to dress up as a superhero and violate the state bar canon of ethics to track down crucial evidence. That’s my guy!
As a long-time L&O fan, I’ll have to go with Ms. Shambala Green.
And if you don’t know who that is, well, I just can’t help you.
Has to be Perry Mason. Not only does he never lose, he always finds out who really did it. Everybody else is a mere amateur beside the one true star of TV lawyers.
Pettrocelli. He da’ Man!
I would do Clair from Law & Order, however.
Sometimes the bear gets you, and the rest of the time its the wolves.
Ling from “Ally McBeal”. No doubt about it.
She may be nuts, and it would probably drain my funds, but she’d probably get me out of whatever I got myself into. I mean, come on! She sued God! And won! 