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Bitter Lawyer Talks to the Creator of ABC's 'The Deep End'

By Bruce Carton

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"The Deep End," ABC's new legal drama about first-year lawyers at a BigLaw firm, makes its debut tonight. The show has received some early swipes from critics, who have complained that it is "not realistic," that the "cast is too pretty" and that the show is "too out of touch with the current state of BigLaw." Undeterred, and recognizing that "the purpose of the show is to entertain and not bore audiences to death with deep, prolific story lines about average-looking people doing doc review," the Bitter Lawyer blog sought out the show's writer/producer, David Hemingson, to learn more about his own former legal career and how the show came to be. Here are some of the highlights of the interview, which is available here: Hemingson practiced law as an entertainment associate at Loeb & Loeb in Century City for several years ("three years, three months and two days -- but who?s counting?"). He recalls that his ?I?ve got to get the f**k out of here? moment was when he learned that his best friend -- a lawyer with whom Hemingson regularly commiserated about law practice and discussed their mutual hopes to leave the law -- had fallen during a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).