A British lawyer once compared his legal life to the fictional series LA Law, an episode of which he had just finished watching.
He saw Arnie Becker waking up in his huge LA apartment in the morning, drinking freshly squeezed orange juice, watching a gorgeous sunrise with a beautiful babe in his bed.
In contrast he had to wake up early the next morning in his pokey flat in Birmingham, catch the first train to Newcastle to represent his client in a criminal trial on legal aid rates.
Legal dramas tend to be unrealistic and the pilot of For the People is the latest example. It tries to have a few less beautiful people but these are young energetic lawyers with no experience who by some miracle are defending and prosecuting a terrorist suspect on their first day in the job.
Set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, known as The Mother Court, the opener follows eager new lawyers working for the defence and the prosecution. Aaron Burr practiced here and truth be told the series sets out its stall early on. It wants to be hip, vibrant and at one point we hear a character giving a speech that could have come straight off the bat from the musical Hamilton. It certainly does not want to waste its shots.
Totally removed from reality with shallow characters and really not for me.
He saw Arnie Becker waking up in his huge LA apartment in the morning, drinking freshly squeezed orange juice, watching a gorgeous sunrise with a beautiful babe in his bed.
In contrast he had to wake up early the next morning in his pokey flat in Birmingham, catch the first train to Newcastle to represent his client in a criminal trial on legal aid rates.
Legal dramas tend to be unrealistic and the pilot of For the People is the latest example. It tries to have a few less beautiful people but these are young energetic lawyers with no experience who by some miracle are defending and prosecuting a terrorist suspect on their first day in the job.
Set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, known as The Mother Court, the opener follows eager new lawyers working for the defence and the prosecution. Aaron Burr practiced here and truth be told the series sets out its stall early on. It wants to be hip, vibrant and at one point we hear a character giving a speech that could have come straight off the bat from the musical Hamilton. It certainly does not want to waste its shots.
Totally removed from reality with shallow characters and really not for me.
