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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 4, 2005

'The Law Firm' Incurs Wrath of Reality-Show-Hating Justice

"A wonderful thing happened after the second episode of the reality series 'The Law Firm' aired a few months ago - it was canceled."

2nd Appellate District, Division 6

Arthur Gilbert

Presiding Justice 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963

Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.

UNDER SUBMISSION

"A wonderful thing happened after the second episode of the reality series 'The Law Firm' aired a few months ago - it was canceled."

This is the opening sentence of a review written by my decrepit friend, the ever-ancient Anne Thrope. Miss Anne, as she likes to be called, once worked as a ghost writer - I mean staff attorney - for the U.S. Supreme Court. Perhaps this is apocryphal, but she is reputed to have chastised ...

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