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* [[Fake American]]: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma.
* [[Fake American]]: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Chris Noth as Peter Florrick. He isn't in every episode, but still shows up often enough to be considered regular.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Chris Noth as Peter Florrick. He isn't in every episode, but still shows up often enough to be considered regular.
* [[A Fool for A Client]]: Stern tries to defend himself "through Alicia" from a DUI charge until she decides to take matters into her own hands.
* [[A Fool for a Client]]: Stern tries to defend himself "through Alicia" from a DUI charge until she decides to take matters into her own hands.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The episode title, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." The episode involved the military, who use those words to spell out initials over the radio. WTF, or . . .
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The episode title, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." The episode involved the military, who use those words to spell out initials over the radio. WTF, or . . .
* [[Hello, Attorney!]]: Alicia is portrayed by Julianna Margulies.
* [[Hello, Attorney!]]: Alicia is portrayed by Julianna Margulies.
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* [[In the Back]]: There's a lot of this. Not least in Lockhart and Gardner.
* [[In the Back]]: There's a lot of this. Not least in Lockhart and Gardner.
* [[The Judge]]: An unusual judge appears [[Once an Episode]].
* [[The Judge]]: An unusual judge appears [[Once an Episode]].
** Will himself ends up presiding as a judge in a mock trial... of [[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]] <ref>Actually a rather common scenario in that sort of thing; it's a classic murder/self-defence argument</ref>.
** Will himself ends up presiding as a judge in a mock trial... of [[Hansel and Gretel]] <ref>Actually a rather common scenario in that sort of thing; it's a classic murder/self-defence argument</ref>.
* [[Justice By Other Legal Means]]: {{spoiler|Inverted in the second episode, where a stripper files a civil action against her rapist after the State Attorney decides not to prosecute. Alicia loses the case after the DNA evidence is found to be cross-contaminated. However, just as the rapist leaves the court, he's arrested for her rape, as non-contaminated DNA evidence has been found}}.
* [[Justice by Other Legal Means]]: {{spoiler|Inverted in the second episode, where a stripper files a civil action against her rapist after the State Attorney decides not to prosecute. Alicia loses the case after the DNA evidence is found to be cross-contaminated. However, just as the rapist leaves the court, he's arrested for her rape, as non-contaminated DNA evidence has been found}}.
** In season two, {{spoiler|a murderer is found to have been insane while committing the act, and sane now, meaning he's free to go. However, the trial reveals that he committed another murder, which he's promptly arrested for.}}
** In season two, {{spoiler|a murderer is found to have been insane while committing the act, and sane now, meaning he's free to go. However, the trial reveals that he committed another murder, which he's promptly arrested for.}}
* [[Law Procedural]]
* [[Law Procedural]]
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** To lesser extent, Sarah Silverman is a host of ''Ashley Madison''-esque site.
** To lesser extent, Sarah Silverman is a host of ''Ashley Madison''-esque site.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Louis Canning makes his money defending large corporations from clearly deserved lawsuits, and makes quite morally dubious use of his neurological disorder to sway the jury's sympathy, or even distract them from damaging testimony. But outside the courtroom, he's a perfectly nice guy and a devoted family man. He even justifies his defense of these companies by pointing out that the lawsuits that firms like Lockhart/Gardner pursue against them is a contributor in the price increases of all their products, including those he uses to help treat his chronic illness.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Louis Canning makes his money defending large corporations from clearly deserved lawsuits, and makes quite morally dubious use of his neurological disorder to sway the jury's sympathy, or even distract them from damaging testimony. But outside the courtroom, he's a perfectly nice guy and a devoted family man. He even justifies his defense of these companies by pointing out that the lawsuits that firms like Lockhart/Gardner pursue against them is a contributor in the price increases of all their products, including those he uses to help treat his chronic illness.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: One episode features an internet billionaire who's had a film made about him which he thinks is defamatory, making him look like a jerk and implying he made his website in order to Get The Girl. Blowing this paper-thin [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] right out of the water, he's described on introduction as a "[[Face Book|Mark Zuckerberg]] wannabe".
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: One episode features an internet billionaire who's had a film made about him which he thinks is defamatory, making him look like a jerk and implying he made his website in order to Get The Girl. Blowing this paper-thin [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] right out of the water, he's described on introduction as a "[[Facebook|Mark Zuckerberg]] wannabe".
* [[Smug Snake]]: Glenn Childs.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Glenn Childs.
** Also Colin Sweeney (played by Dylan Baker), who appears in a couple of episodes.
** Also Colin Sweeney (played by Dylan Baker), who appears in a couple of episodes.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A love scene between Peter and Alicia, with Peter going down on her to the sound of... [[NPR]]'s ''All Things Considered'' playing on Alicia's radio? In [[Real Life]], that weekend's episode of ''[[Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Radio)|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' found this hilarious.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A love scene between Peter and Alicia, with Peter going down on her to the sound of... [[NPR]]'s ''All Things Considered'' playing on Alicia's radio? In [[Real Life]], that weekend's episode of ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' found this hilarious.
* [[Spousal Privilege]]: Comes up in "Bang", as the only person who can break the murderer's alibi is his wife.
* [[Spousal Privilege]]: Comes up in "Bang", as the only person who can break the murderer's alibi is his wife.
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Alicia and Crozier working together. {{spoiler|it quickly turns sour}}.
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Alicia and Crozier working together. {{spoiler|it quickly turns sour}}.
* [[Take That]]: Recent episodes have had a [[Lie to Me (TV)|micro-expressions/lie detection expert]] get everything wrong, and a [[Glee (TV)|glee club director try to help a political campaign only to harm it]].
* [[Take That]]: Recent episodes have had a [[Lie to Me (TV series)|micro-expressions/lie detection expert]] get everything wrong, and a [[Glee|glee club director try to help a political campaign only to harm it]].
** Towards the end of "Live From Damascus", {{spoiler|Will, about to serve a six month suspension from the bar,}} comments that he might use the time to write a [[Rock Opera]], as "[[Green Day (Music)|There hasn't]] [[American Idiot (Music)|been a good]] [[Twenty First Century Breakdown (Music)|one since]] ''[[The Wall]]''."
** Towards the end of "Live From Damascus", {{spoiler|Will, about to serve a six month suspension from the bar,}} comments that he might use the time to write a [[Rock Opera]], as "[[Green Day|There hasn't]] [[American Idiot|been a good]] [[21st Century Breakdown|one since]] ''[[The Wall]]''."
* [[That Was Objectionable]]: Lawyers yelling objection when a question hasn't even been asked yet. Used intentionally by Alicia to aggravate Stern's dementia and make him lose focus.
* [[That Was Objectionable]]: Lawyers yelling objection when a question hasn't even been asked yet. Used intentionally by Alicia to aggravate Stern's dementia and make him lose focus.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Alisha and Will. To the point where he says that they have "always had bad timing."
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Alisha and Will. To the point where he says that they have "always had bad timing."
** {{spoiler|Resolved. And as the closer of season two no less.}}
** {{spoiler|Resolved. And as the closer of season two no less.}}
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in The Future]]: Averted. The fact that much of the blackmail material used by Childs against the Florricks is, in fact, shopped is a minor plot point. {{spoiler|The only problem is that not all of it is fake.}}
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future]]: Averted. The fact that much of the blackmail material used by Childs against the Florricks is, in fact, shopped is a minor plot point. {{spoiler|The only problem is that not all of it is fake.}}
* [[Written in Infirmity]]: Michael J. Fox plays a lawyer with a neurological disorder (not Fox's own Parkinson's, but close enough).
* [[Written in Infirmity]]: Michael J. Fox plays a lawyer with a neurological disorder (not Fox's own Parkinson's, but close enough).
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: So, so often. Putting a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in Hyde Park? A wealthy neighborhood in [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Garfield Park]], out of all places?
* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: So, so often. Putting a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in Hyde Park? A wealthy neighborhood in [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Garfield Park]], out of all places?
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