Storefront Lawyers

Also known as	Men at Law
Genre	Legal drama
Created by	David Karp
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky Lee H. Katzin
Starring	Robert Foxworth Sheila Larken David Arkin A Martinez
Theme music composer	Morton Stevens
ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Harper MacKay George Romanis Morton Stevens
Template:Pluralize from text of origin	United States
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	23
Production
Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Leonard Freeman
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Harold Gast Roland Kibbee
Cinematography	Jack Courtland
EditorTemplate:Pluralize from text	Ira Heymann
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	48 mins.
Production Template:Pluralize from text	Leonard Freeman Enterprises Productions National General Corporation
Original release
Network	CBS
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Storefront Lawyers (also known as Men at Law) is an American legal drama that ran from September 1970 to January 1971 and February 1971 to March 1971 on CBS. The series starred Robert Foxworth, Sheila Larken, David Arkin, and A Martinez.

Plot

David Hansen (Foxworth) is a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm Horton, Troy, McNeil, & Caroll. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called Neighborhood Legal Services based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan (Larken) and Gabriel Kay (Arkin). Roberto (Martinez) is a law student who worked for them as a clerk.

After 13 weeks, CBS decided to take the series in a different direction so that the lawyers could take on rich clients as well. The network retitled the series as Men at Law as the three protagonists went back to work for their former law firm.

Cast

Main

• Robert Foxworth as David Hansen
• Sheila Larken as Deborah Sullivan
• David Arkin as Gabriel Kaye
• A Martinez as Roberto Alvarez

Recurring

• Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Devlin McNeil

Reception

Critical response

In the book, The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, "The Storefront Lawyers featured two men and one woman, all WASPS, but the presence of a woman was a departure at the time when women still constituted less than five percent of the profession." "The Storefront Lawyers emphasizes that passivity, suggesting lawyers do nothing unless called upon. Given anxiety over lawyers trolling for clients, this portrayal suggests there is nothing to worry about. From the viewer's perspective such things simply do not happen."

In his Time magazine interview, critic Richard Burgheim lumped the new CBS legal series together with another of the network's bids at "revelvance," noting "The Storefront Lawyers (CBS) and The Interns (CBS) both exploit Mod SquadTemplate:'s multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing."

References

Sources

• Erickson, Hal (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008. New York City: McFarland & Company. p. 253. ISBN 978-0786438280.
• Hyatt, Wesley (2003). Short-Lived Television Series, 1948–1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops (1st ed.). New York City: McFarland & Company. p. 196. ISBN 978-0786414208.
• Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart, eds. (2008). The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers' (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521884488.

External links

• Storefront Lawyers at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata