So...a bunch of lawyers hanging around a bar? Cheers meets LA Law?

Actually, that might be more interesting than the actual show...

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That would have been a better show, IMHO. The premise of this show is that a bunch of law school classmates find themselves as public defenders and prosecutors in the same city. Seems unlikely at the onset. Did a bunch of prosecutors and PDs get fired and the city couldn't find any experienced lawyers so they hired a bunch of new Law School grads instead? I'd think the local news would get all up in arms about it and mention malfeasance on the DA's part (and whoever is in charge of the public defenders office).

In just this first episode we see these new guys misbehaving badly:

- One brash public defender publicly tells the judge that she's an ass and gets thrown in jail for contempt
- A prosecutor gets inside information about another case and uses it to adjust her case accordingly. The young lawyers talk about losing their jobs if anyone else finds out but they do it anyway.
- After hours the classmates get together for drinks. The prosecutors and public defenders talk about their cases, although they tend to be vague about them. The brash PD I mentioned earlier brings up details of his case and a classmate rebuffs him and tells him it's inappropriate to discuss details and walks out. They shouldn't be talking shop in the first place! Even getting together from drinks is inappropriate, IMHO.
- The blonde prosecutor and the brash PD are living together even though they both work cases off each other. Perhaps Steve Bochco is trying to revive the same conflict of interest story he had in Hill Street Blues (between the Captain and the head Public Defender) but I don't think Bochco is pulling it off here (he Bochced it).
- There appears to be only one judge in this show and it's played by Jane Kaczmarek AKA Malcom's mom in Malcom in the Middle. She's bossy and bitchy in the show, just like her role in MitM. Turns out she's sleeping with her clerk who is another one of those young Law school classmates.

As you can see I have a lot to hate here. In fact I saw little of redeeming value in any of the characters.

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