In "Beauty and the Beast," the Season 4 opener for Boston Legal, Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen) sticks the new associate Katie Lloyd (Tara Summers) in Jerry Espenson's office, explaining that Jerry (Christian Clemenson) had volunteered to share his office with the newest hire on account of office space being in short supply. From the start it seemed to me like a plot contrivance to put these two characters in the same office, given that lawyers at big firms typically get their own offices all to themselves, even associates fresh out of law school.
Well, that being a contrivance was confirmed in the next episode, "The Innocent Man," in which Shirley hires Lorraine Weller (Saffron Burrows), the very lawyer who had opposed Alan Shore (James Spader) in the previous episode, trying to get Shirley to pay up the money she had pledged to Stanford University. Carl Sack (John Larroquette) goes to Lorraine's new office to drool at her as she works on her new office's decor. Maybe another lawyer got fired in between the two episodes and for some reason Shirley didn't want to mention it in telling Alan that Lorraine had been hired. Still, it seems to me like an important little detail got past the story editor and the producers.
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