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“The Good Wife” Ethics, Season #2: Alicia, Kalinda, and Pretexting
In "Taking Control," Kalinda (the beautiful, brilliant and innovative investigator, played by Archie Punjabi, who is employed by Alicia's law firm) tracks down a witness by a phone ruse, lying to a...
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When TV’s Ethics Matter, and When They Don’t
I know I'm asking for trouble by declaring, as I officially do here, that for compliance firm Global Ethics to criticize TV shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock" for supposed workplace ethics...
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“The Good Wife” Ethics: Sex With Clients Edition
CBS's "The Good Wife," dealt with the "no sex with clients" ethics rule adopted by most states (but not Washington, D.C.!) in a continuing subplot about the budding romance between firm tigress-partner...
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“Harry’s Law” Is A Legal Ethics Mess
The new NBC Kathy Bates drama "Harry's Law" has already ticketed itself for the Dumb Lawyer TV Show Hall of Shame, grossly misleading its audience about what constitutes a lawyer's ethical duties....
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I’m Worried About “The Good Wife”
"The Good Wife" seems to be getting more cavalier with its ethics breaches, a disappointing trend. Continue reading →
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Legal Ethics Train Wreck on “The Good Wife”
The most recent episode of "The Good Wife," entitled "Getting Off" included a full-fledged ethics train wreck sparked by the firm's habitually unethical adversary, the fecund Patti Nyholm. In the...
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Donna Brazile Opens An Ethics Can Of Worms On “The Good Wife”
The increasingly common practice of using real political figures playing themselves in dramas made me queasy from the beginning, and now I know why. Continue reading →
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“The Good Wife” Ethics Addendum: Why Misrepresenting the Legal Profession’s...
I think, on reflection, I wasn't hard enough on "The Good Wife." Continue reading →
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ARRGH! “The Good Wife” Did It AGAIN!
I have dubbed this "The Hollywood Lawyer Fallacy," and Will (Josh Charles) just did it again on "The Good Wife." Continue reading →
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“The Good Wife” Jumps The Ethics Shark
This is the common, much criticized defense lawyer tactic called "The Lecture" in the novel "Anatomy of A Murder." A lawyer is bound to explain the law to his or her client, and that sometimes means...
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