Summary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: Once a third-rate superhero known as 'Birdman, ' Harvey is now a third-rate lawyer. It's not clear whether he even went to law school, but he definitely knows the things to say to sound like a lawyer. And he now has a suit, that's for sure. His cases always involve legal disputes between cartoon characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HARSummary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHMeloni, Christopher.
Summary: The New York City police special victims unit investigates a number of sex crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: For Life is a fictional serialised legal and family drama inspired by the life of Isaac Wright, Jr. about a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FORSummary: Season two begins with a burnt corpse found in the trunk of a car, a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. Prosecutor Pierre Clement, Police Captain Laure Berthaud and examining magistrate Judge Roban investigate the murder and soon find themselves up against the criminal machine that lies behind it. It's a furiously-paced season with characters that become increasingly dark, disillusioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: Rudy Baylor (Damon) is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woman. Will he be up to the task?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Life in Judge Harry Stone's court starts with a tear (as the gang says farewell to Selma) and a horselaugh (as they welcome wiseacre Flo to the municipal menagerie). Harry and his staff contend with New York's zaniest nuts and dolts: the usual winos, weirdos, hookers and con artists, plus an orangutan, a rock star, a man from Saturn and a gorgeous witch who has Harry under her spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: After suffering a nervous breakdown, London lawyer William Travers moves his practice and family to the countryside and becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy when he is called upon to defend an old friend; includes all five episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INJSummary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VERSummary: Season 7: Laure and Gilou are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant, and the tragic loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Josp̌hine struggles with life in prison as she awaits trial and Judge Roban faces forced retirement. All of them will have to deal with unexpected hurdles and the ultimate dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPISummary: "Available together for the first time in one collectible DVD set... the first four seasons of the dynamic television drama series The Good Wife. Julianna Margulies stars as Alicia Florrick, who must re-enter the workforce after her husband's high-profile sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Through four compelling TV seasons, Alicia grows determined to transform herself from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: Respected country solicitor Peter Kingdom, with the assistance of his apprentice Lyle and secretary Gloria, runs a small legal practice in Market Shipborough for the eccentric people of Norfolk. Peter lives with his slightly crazy sister Beatrice, and recently lost his half-brother Simon under mysterious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KINSummary: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season six begins with the shocking discovery of a dismembered human torso in a pile of garbage in Paris. Police Captain Laure Berthaud returns from maternity leave to reunite with her colleagues Gilou and Tintin. Together they tackle the complex investigation. A high-profile criminal trial tempts lawyer Josp̌hine Karlsson, and Judge Roban faces a rapidly escalating health crisis. Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPIContents: Disorder in the court -- Brideless groom -- Malice in the palace -- Sing a song of six pants -- Kooks tour (last movie they made in 1970).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THRSummary: Lawyer Peter Kingdom represents the oddball people in the town of Market Shipborough, England. While trying to seek answers to the problems of everyone else, he continues to be overshadowed by the disappearance of his brother, who may or may not still be alive. Contains six episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax's 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn't what it seems. The Devil is in the details.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEVSummary: Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOSSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000