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I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.