The Law Firm: Episode 2
The Terrorist And The Dominatrix
Recap by Gayl Killough
August 4, 2005
I have mixed feeling about this show in general now. It is coming across
as a well-intentioned mess. We are shown snippets of two real cases,
snippets of the contestants giving their opinions of the other
contestants, snippets of Roy Black giving his comments, and it just does
not add up.
The editing also seems to be inconsistent with Black's comments at the
end. Since this show has already been entirely shot, I wonder if the
show has been edited to reflect things that will happen later on in the
show. I am concerned that the producers edited this show to be more
interesting, but the consequence is that I don't understand Black's
viewpoint based on what I see of the contestants.
Is the editing of the
show off or misleading? Should I lose respect for Black?
For those that know something about law, there are not enough details
shown to be able to properly follow the cases and I don't trust the
snippets of opinions given by other contestants. Even if a lawyer does a
great job of analyzing another contestant, it could be taken totally out
of context. So I am just left confused by this show.
Being that I value research, I have gathered comments on this show from
both legal and non-legal people. The best thing is that nobody is
safe. The show does seem to be a strange mixture of reality standard
shows and that is not a good thing in this case. A common comment that I
have heard is that this show reminds them of Apprentice. I disagree and
I was even disappointed that it does not remind me of the Apprentice. I
think the show is trying to be a little bit of everything for everyone,
but fails because there is not enough for anyone.
Roy Black decided that two of the contestants stood out to him a positive
way so they get to pick their own team. He chooses Michael and Barrett.
No explanation is given as to why he chose them. Based on the highly
edited show I saw last week, I would not have picked these two, so I
would love to know his reasoning.
Barrett chose for her team: Oliver, Elizabeth, Anika, and Deep.
Michael
chose for his team: Keith, Aileen, Chris, and Regina. Deep and Regina
were picked last. I have to comment that I hated this method of picking
teams when I was in grade school and it puts Roy Black in a negative
light for me because he chose this method.
Deep is glad that he does not have to work for Michael's team. He comes
across as emotional and vindictive, but I am going to cut Deep some
slack, because I believe I would be the same way. Just in the few
minutes that I have seen of Michael, I can not stand Michael. I am ready
to get my law degree and purposely argue against him in a case. Michael
admits later on that part of his strategy is to annoy them to the point
of distracting them. Well congratulations Michael, you are very
successful at that. The problem is I suspect that you also annoy the
people that you will need to be on your side as well. Michael is smart,
but if this editing is true, it will catch up with him.
Regina also comes across as vindictive toward Oliver. Chris likens her to
a pit bull that will not leave a leg alone. I get this same sense of
Regina too. I really want to like Regina, but I think she goes too
extreme with her strengths to the point that it becomes a weakness for
her. I do think she is better a lawyer than the editing of the show is
displaying.
The first case is Brad Graves versus Ron Hicks. Hicks is a grocery store
owner who decided to play a joke on someone he considered a friend. The
fake wanted posted depicted Brad Graves as a redneck terrorist. Graves
did not consider it a joke and is suing for damages.
The second case is Sabrina Belladonna vs. Jason Rosilli; Belladonna is a
professional dominatrix who asked Rosilli to create a web site for her
business. This is really a boring legal dispute, just with colorful
characters, over who has actual ownership of the web site and whether or
not Rosilli had the authority to shut down the web site.
Deep, Anika, and Elizabeth were assigned to Hicks's defense. He
maintains that it was just meant as a joke on a friend and that he tried
to make the poster look as ridiculous as possible. The so-called
terrorist organization had the acronym of "Eat Me". The picture used of
Graves showed him in his hunting gear smiling and looking like a normal
hunter in my opinion.
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