The Practice

7.6IMDb Score
Released:1997-03-04
Genre:Drama
Duration:44 min
Director:
Actors:Steve Harris, Camryn Manheim, Michael Badalucco, Jessica Capshaw, James Spader
Production:David E. Kelley Productions, Daydreamers Entertainment, Decode Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Television

Overview:

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

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