{"id":2217,"date":"2019-05-11T20:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?page_id=2217"},"modified":"2022-04-09T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:18:50","slug":"fictional-lawyers-with-other-careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/fictional-lawyers-with-other-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional Lawyers With Other Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some fictional lawyers leave the practice of law to pursue other careers, or combine law practice with other professions. Ira Woodbine (played by Alan Roseberg), the second ex-husband of actress Cybill Sheridan in the 1990s series Cybill,<\/em> leaves law practice to become a novelist.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Rosenberg has played other attorneys on television, including Stuart Brickman (Chicago<\/em> Hope), Adam Novak (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)<\/em>, Bruce Steinerman (House M.D.),\u00a0<\/em>Eli Levinson (L. A. Law<\/em> and\u00a0Civil Wars<\/em>),\u00a0and Judge Franklin Trelane (Numb3rs<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Lawyer Kate Fox (Alicia Silverstone) handles domestic relations law, but also provides a matchmaking service, in Miss Match\u00a0<\/em>(2003). The series is based on lawyer Samantha Daniels’ career running Samantha’s Table.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hallmark Flower Shop Mystery Movie<\/a> series stars Brooke Shields as Abby Knight, who leaves law practice to open up a flower shop. Kate Collins’ popular cosy mystery novels featuring a one-time law student who decides to try her hand at running a flower shop inspired the series. Another Hallmark Mystery Movie series, the Hailey Dean Mysteries,<\/a> centers on a former prosecutor, who leaves the District Attorney’s office to become a psychologist, but is constantly drawn back to work with her former colleagues to solve mysteries. Kellie Sue Martin stars.<\/p>\n

Ben Doucette (played by Gregory Hines), one of the name partners at Doucette and Stein, in the popular television show Will & Grace,<\/em> was a chef before going to law school, and still seemed to keep up his skills, as we see in the episode “There But For the Grace of Grace,”<\/a> first broadcast May 9, 2000. After Jack says he knows he can do something Ben cannot, which is tap dance, the late Mr. Hines, a gifted dancer, also tap dances after Jack leaves the room.<\/p>\n

Another lawyer-chef is Erica Lucas (T’Keyah “Crystal” Keymah), the daughter in the short-lived tv series “Cosby,” (1996).<\/p>\n

Jamie, one of the agents in the Progressive Insurance commercials, reveals that he is an attorney, but “only licensed in Stockholm.” See a video clip here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the character James (LaMonica Garrett) in the episode “Mike Likes Cake,” of Mike & Molly<\/a> was a pro football player who then becomes an attorney. He successfully woos his ex-wife Christina (Holly Robinson Peete), to the dismay of series regular officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson).<\/p>\n\n

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