Kuzak in action as LA Law returns

For many 20 and 30-somethings, pretty much everything they learnt about the legal profession came from 'LA Law', and that includes an unfortunate adherence to 1980s office fashion.

Ah yes, the Arnie Becker look.

We are thrilled to report that the goings-on at McKenzie-Brackman have been revived after an eight-year hiatus.

Last weekend saw the US television premiere of 'LA Law - The Movie' and most of the original cast are back, which, Obiter suspects, says more about their careers in the meantime than the lure of shouting 'Objection, your honour'.

Neither Victor Sifuentes (above right) or Jonathan Rollins (bottom, second right) have made it, but the original heart-throb, Michael Kuzak (Harry Hamlin) returns, having been the first major character to quit the programme in its heyday.

Kuzak has chucked in the law and runs a trendy LA restaurant, but when evidence emerges that could exonerate a man on death row whom he represented a decade before, he throws down his pinny and slips back into a suit.

The love of his life (and Victor's, if memory serves), Grace Van Owen (Susan Dey) is still around, we are pleased to discover.

Leland McKenzie is retired but still on the scene, leaving Douglas Brackman in charge.

The on and off-screen married couple of Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz have been left penniless by a New Age con-man, while Arnie is facing a nasty divorce with ex-McKenzie-Brackman lawyer Abby Perkins on the other side.

Basically, it sounds like nothing much has changed since we last saw them - and if that isn't an accurate representation of the legal profession, then we don't know what is.