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The Shallow End

I saw about two minutes of the premiere of the Deep End last night. I'm not much of a prime time guru, but I thought it was terrible. So did a newly minted BigLaw associate, who requested a post:

So I think you should post something on N&B re: the Deep End, because it seems like a lot of us newbies were morbidly drawn to watch, and there is something really hilarious about a show about first-year associates at a biglaw firm premiering the week many first years started work after months of deferral, in an economy where lawyers have been laid off by the score. My expectations were very low, but the Deep End was really, really, awful. In an age where nearly every man, woman, and child in America is a lawyer, I'm kind of in awe of a show that doesn't even pretend to have a veneer of accuracy (like the guy who tells his colleague he got her filing in by sweet talking the bailiff -- I'll tell you where the bailiff would file something you gave him/her, and it wouldn't be somewhere that would stamp it "docketed"). A number of teachable moments for J. Steele though.

IMO most implausible elements of last night's show were: 1) lawyers with mobile phones that ring; 2) an associate saying she graduated first in her class from Case Western, like that was a good thing; and 3) attractive paralegals.

Open forum for other observations.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).