Over the festive season I was handed a business card for Harvey Specter, Senior Partner at Pearson Hardman, whilst out shopping. The suited and booted chaps wielding an array of promotional materials were from the TV channel Dave, who will soon be showcasing a new legal drama called Suits.
The (usually) comical channel, Dave, wouldn’t really spring to mind as the place to find a supposedly “witty new legal drama” but I will most definitely be tuning in to decide for myself. The show has already been a hit in the USA (with a second series in the pipeline), where it is based. And although I’m very partial to our own home-grown legal dramas it might be nice to see how the setting, acting and of course law compares across the pond.
So who really does the law justice on screen? Us or the Americans?
Decide for yourself on Tuesday 17th January at 9pm...
Well I watched it and have to say I rather enjoyed it. There's more sharp suits than law suits in it, and barely a mention of law reports, though two young lawyers are seen eating sushi in what is presumably a law library at their firm, and the implication is that they researched a point of law (of staggering obviousness, it has to be said) in the process. Does it do the law justice? Well, the American legal system is divided from ours by a common law, to misquote George Bernard Shaw.
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