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Two Legal Dramas That Will Make You Want To Become A Lawyer

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It is said that life imitates art, and sometimes that art inspires people in what they want to do with their lives. A song could inspire you to become a musician or a singer. A painting could inspire you to start painting or drawing. A TV show could inspire you to become a doctor or lawyer.

Entertainment and art does inspire people to do many things, from creating their own to becoming trained in something they saw their favorite actor do in their latest television show. If you have a passion for legal dramas, you may find yourself inspired to become a lawyer, or maybe a judge. Here are a few legal dramas that are sure to make you think about going to college and hitting the books.

Law & Order

Whether you want to help people who have been hurt by their loved ones, raped, or you want to help the families of people that have been murdered, Law & Order has a show for you. In fact, there are seven incarnations of the Law & Order franchise.

In case you haven’t been keeping up since the first Law & Order aired way back in 1990, its popularity has bred many spin offs with great actors, like Ice-T. Spin offs include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order: LA, Law & Order: True Crime, and Law & Order: You the Jury. They mostly pull their cases straight from the headline, and you get a chance to see what happens behind the scenes when a crime is committed.

The Good Wife

The Good Wife is an extremely popular television show right now, maybe because of the acting or simply because of the storyline. Julianna Margulies plays the good wife of a former state attorney that finds himself in prison after a sex and corruption scandal. She has to go back to work to provide for her family, and works as a litigator for a law firm.

One of the reasons this show is so popular is that it spends a good deal of time in the courtroom with the main characters. You get to see what it is like to work in a law firm, and maybe find that it looks like something you’d enjoy. The other reason it’s popular is because people love the actors, and they keep the stories fresh and interesting.

If you’ve been considering getting into law, take some time to binge watch some great legal dramas like these, or even look up some of the popular legal based movies. There are plenty of them. You’ll get a chance to get an idea what that world is like, and determine if it’s really what you want to do!

The axe falls at NBC & ABC

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It looks as though NBC’s celebrated, 20-year-old series, Law & Order, is coming to an end. Despite indications earlier this year that the show would go on to a record-breaking 21st season, negotiations have fallen apart for next season and NBC is reportedly on the verge of dropping the show altogether. Law & Order has, for years, trailed behind its spinoff, L&O: Special Victims Unit, in the ratings. (SVU is in no danger of being canceled.) Meanwhile, the latest spinoff for the franchise, Law & Order: Los Angeles, is still set to premiere this fall.

It also looks likely that NBC’s Heroes won’t be getting a fifth season. The show has struggled in the ratings for years, but it’s held on despite storylines that have wavered between ridiculous and so-so. But NBC is not blind to the show’s dogged fans, who still hope for some kind of proper ending, and are considering giving Heroes a 2 or 4 hour wrap-up movie/miniseries at some point next season.

Meanwhile, over at ABC, a number of high-profile shows have gotten the axe, including FlashForward (which the network once hoped might become the next Lost), the long-running Scrubs (which jumped networks from NBC not too long ago), Better Off Ted (which is universally loved by critics, but has too few viewers), and Romantically Challenged.

Law & Order: Los Angeles

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Yes, you read that headline right: NBC is prepping another Law & Order series.

Law & Order: Los Angeles would mark the fifth series in the franchise’s incredibly long history, though the fourth to air concurrently at this time. (Law & Order: Trial by Jury didn’t last beyond 13 episodes.) The original L&O is expected to enter its 21st season this coming fall, while Law & Order: Special Victims Unit remains the ratings champ of the bunch, and is guaranteed a 12th season in the fall. Law & Order: Criminal Intent made the jump from NBC to USA a few years ago, and has just begun its 9th season there.

The new series, Los Angeles, is a proposal that’s caught NBC’s eye because it comes with the creative cache of writer/producer Blake Masters attached. Masters is remembered for the little-watched but highly acclaimed Showtime series Brotherhood. Masters and franchise creator Dick Wolf are expected to collaborate on the new show, which has received a 13-episode order from NBC for this fall.

The real question on my mind is whether CBS will answer this challenge by adding a fourth edition of the CSI franchise to its lineup. There’s already CSI: Las Vegas, CSI: Sunglasses (er, Miami), and CSI: New York. Where should they go next? CSI: DC? CSI: Des Moines? CSI: Beirut?

New cop on the block

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Jeff Goldblum will be replacing Chris Noth on Law & Order: Criminal Intent next season.

Noth is still shooting episodes for the series’ ongoing seventh season, so staye tuned to find out how he’ll be written out of the series.

Law and Order escapes being axed

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Law and Order is returning for another season. There was some talk about canceling it because of problems with air time, but after successful negotiations to have it moved to the USA network, fans can breathe a sigh of relief. It is the 19th season for the series, and has earned the distinction of being the second longest-running network TV drama series.

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