Just Legal

Just Legal was a WB network courtroom TV drama that was created by Jonathan Shapiro and premiered on September 19, 2005.

The cast consisted of Don Johnson (of "Miami Vice" fame), Jay Baruchel, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Susan Ward and Reiley McClendon.

The show became one of the first TV series of the 2005-2006 season to be cancelled; it was cancelled on October 3, 2005 after only 3 episodes aired.

A year later, the WB decided to burn off 5 unaired episodes (along with a repeat of the pilot episode) starting on August 6, 2006 to September 10, 2006.

Plot
Set in Venice, California, the show was about 19-year-old David "Skip" Ross, a legal genius who graduated from law school at the top of his class, but now can find no one to hire him.

Grant Cooper is a washed-up middle-aged lawyer who has made one too many bad choices in his career, leaving him a jaded court-appointed attorney, rejected by his peers.

Skip is Grant's golf caddy and he convinces Grant just to let him write a legal brief for him; but when they arrive at the courthouse, Grant is told he needs a "second chair" (an attorney to sit at the second seat at counsel's table), and he gives them the only one he has: Skip Ross. Grant has no intention of actually bringing Skip into his practice, but his charm, enthusiasm, intelligence, and most of all, ability to actually win a case, win Grant over.

There are a variety of cases featured on the show, from murder cases to botched plastic surgery. Many of the storylines are based on real-life cases.

Grant and Skip do their own "dirty work" for their cases, going to crime scenes and interviewing witnesses as Grant teaches Skip more about what it means to be a “real lawyer” and Skip teaches Grant more about what it means to trust in people.

Cast

 * Jay Baruchel as David "Skip" Ross
 * Don Johnson as Grant H. Cooper
 * Jaime Lee Kirchner as Dulcinea "Dee" Real
 * Susan Ward as Kate Manat
 * Reiley McClendon as Tom Ross