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Seasons 1-5 were great. In season 6 it started to go downhill. I think LA Law JTS when the firm almost collapsed and a judge ordered (utterly ridiculous) that it be run by that annoying a-hole (forget his name) finance guy.

I really didn't have a favorite episode, but I did love the way all of them started. How the producers would show everyone around the conference table eating something (and looking at the food strangely) and then someone would bring up a strange case and a joke would be made about it. Then the music starts...da da - da da da...

LA Law was one of the best legal dramas ever. My complaint is once again that a Jew is sterotyped. You had a good looking African American, Hispanic and WASP lawyers but when it comes to having a Jew lawyer once again they make him the same stereotypical type. Stuart Markowitz is a short, nebbish and of course a tax accountant lawyer. When the firm played basketball who was the one to be replaced for a good looking player Stuart. During the LA riots which chacracter got attacked once again it was Stuart. Who had a low sperm count once again it was Stuart. Then when Kuzak, Sifuentes, Abby and Rollins were going to form a new law firm why didn't they invite Kelsey. It was because she wanted to bring Stuart. It was obvious they all didn't like Stuart but patronize him. It wasn't until they brought Alan Rosenberg they almost redeemed themselves.

LA Law was merely a soap opera for yuppies who considered themselves above watching soap operas. And the courtroom scenes were about as true to what happens in an actual court of law as Looney Tunes characters are to actual denizens of the animal kingdom.

Roz was a great character and had a glorious end. There was nowhere to go.

Bennie as a character was fine. Bennie as the subject of entire episodes meant it was time to see what else is on.

People ask what happened to Dr Pulaski on Star Trek The Next Generation. The answer is she fell down the turbo lift shaft.

The moment Arnie (Corbin Bernsen) ditched the glam babes for frumpy Roxanne (Susan Ruttan), I knew the end was near. Egad, even Jabba the Hut wouldn't find HER attractive. That was also about the time the courtroom scenes took on a weird light-and-shadow dance.

At the end of season 5 things started to flopø. Kuzak leaving, Victor, Abby as well.. It just didnt become the same without those. And ofcurse then Grace left as well after the 1991/1992 season so by then i was out. I really enjoyed season 1-5. Season 6 was also ok, but thats the end for me.

I think the last season, when they had the LA riots, was when it JTS. Most of the main characters from the original cast were gone, except Arnie, and even he traded in is Porsche for a Bentley. The new characters just didn't stick for the most part, except for Jon Spencer's. The story lines got even worse, what with one of the new lawyers being a Christian in LA (yawn), another trying to adapt after moving from NYC (DOUBLE yawn), Arnie trying to be more mature for the umpteenth time and Ann and Stewart once again questioning their commitment to eachother. I missed Earl Williams...

This wonderful show has always been my favorite! But it really jumped the shark when Rosalind died! She was my favorite televsion character all times!

easy. Ros goes dow nthe shaft. All i remeber after that was that each new actor cominhg in was blander and more soap starrish. i stopped watching after another year or so; before that i never missed an episode.

LA Law was one of the best legal dramas ever. My complaint is once again that a Jew is sterotyped. You had a good looking African American, Hispanic and WASP lawyers but when it comes to having a Jew lawyer once again they make him the same stereotypical type. Stuart Markowitz is a short, nebbish and of course a tax accountant lawyer. When the firm played basketball who was the one to be replaced for a good looking player Stuart. During the LA riots which chacracter got attacked once again it was Stuart. Who had a low sperm count once again it was Stuart. Then when Kuzak, Sifuentes, Abby and Rollins were going to form a new law firm why didn't they invite Kelsey. It was because she wanted to bring Stuart. It was obvious they all didn't like Stuart but patronize him. It wasn't until they brought Alan Rosenberg they almost redeemed themselves.

L.A. Law gradually declined as the years passed but the jump came early - specifically when when Susan Dey said to Harry Hamlin "Mickey, you scared the poo out of me!" Poo? Poo? What is she, 10 years old? I nominate that for the worst line ever in a primetime drama. Poo indeed!

The quality of the writing went way down when David E. Kelley left. The last couple of years were a tailspin as the plots became more meandering and baroque. I think the lowest point was the story line where Shelley Berman played an eccentric, Howard Hughes-type Hollywood producer who had his own ice rink and buried his rivals underneath it. The story had no point and was never resolved.

I really don't know why a lot of people are giggin' on Benny!! He was a true asset to the show. He was the soft part of the show and that's what kept the balance. I loved him!! I'm glad he was able to make all that money in the end. But that retarded chick was too ugly for him. He could've gotten a better girl!! Damn those blue eyes of his!! Hypnotizing!!!! But yea, the show jumped when Arnie banged chick # 1,205 and he had no traces of any diseases or anything like that?? And Roxanne still bangs him after walking in on him and some dirty blonde bimbo. She's the dumb one!!!

Although entertaining at times, L.A. Law was essentially ludicrous. Some of the prior posters have noted some of the reasons: philosophical discourses don't take place during litigation, for example, nor does every lawyer in a firm sleep with every other lawyer in addition to the office staff. Oddly, I liked the Death by Elevator moment because, you have to admit, it was exciting. I still remember seeing it and being caught completely off-guard, a rare accomplishment for the unoriginal and derivative medium of television. But on the whole this show stank--a cloying soap opera, vapid, pretentiously liberal at times and chock-full of cliches. Worse still, it encouraged a whole generation of ambitious college students (including me) to attend law school, regardless of whether or not one was suited for it. The discrepancy between the real practice of law and this show is so vast as to be practically indescribable. Last year there was a reality show based on the daily activities of real lawyers, but it folded within a few months because the ugly truth is that law practice isn't as much competitive, aggressive, difficult, challenging, heart-wrenching or fraught with moral dilemmas as it is...BORING, and given that, L.A. Law's glamorization of it was such a fraud as to amount to an offense against the natural order. And Benny gradually got more intelligent, unintentionally, because they ran out of things for him to do after he had a few embarrassing sexual mishaps.