A wry courtroom television show that walks the line between drama and comedy, Boston Legal is the creation of perennial hit maker David E. Kelley (ALLY MCBEAL, PICKET FENCES). The series revolves around the Boston litigation law firm of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt, and in particular two eccentric and flawed attorneys, Alan Shore and Denny Crane. Shore, an unscrupulous and wily ambulance chaser and womaniser (played with sly charm by James Spader), finds an uneasy alliance with Crane, a bombastic, self aggrandising, and occasionally batty elder lawyer (William Shatner in an Emmy winning performance). Despite their ethical and emotional deficiencies, Shore and Crane usually find themselves...
