Is law really such a jump to tv? One of the things you get in law school are the tests where you have to respond in essay form to a professor's creative "hypothetical". They take some cases you read in your casebook, actual court cases, usually from appeals, and they take the issues from them and combine them in some great big "what if" scenario. Your job as a student is to spot the legal issues arising from this shaggy dog story which goes on and on and on. You can see how this works beautifully in Jericho. Take the grocery store, full of items hauled in from a train wreck, treated as the lawful property of the owner, who then needs to defend them from shoplifters (the mean girls who take Diet Cokes), from kids who are paid to steal pesticide, from neighbors who loot. And that's one small example where law school proposes many plot points whereby character can be developed. Steinberg is putting something boring to interesting us, and I say Bravo, except for the fact that this is a CBS production, and Bravo may be a bad word to them.

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