In Name Only: The Portrayal of Lawyers on Television

In Name Only: The Portrayal of Lawyers on Television

2012-04

Essay

2019-11-26

1125019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38C922

Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law

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* Marshall Goldberg has been a television and film writer for 25 years. After graduating with honors from Harvard College and then Stanford Law School, Goldberg clerked for Judge Robert F. Peckham of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. He went on to become Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, where he was lead counsel on the extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Later he served in the Justice Department as legislative liaison for the Civil Rights Division, as well as a litigator in civil rights cases against the North Carolina state prison and mental hospital system. In 1979 Goldberg moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at writing, and spent the next 25 years writing or producing such shows as Diff'rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, Paper Chase, Newhart, L.A. Law, It's Garry Shandling's Show, and Life Goes On, along with eight television movies, three screenplays and an animated feature. He has been a Humanitas Prize and Writers Guild Award finalist. From 2003-2005, Goldberg put aside his writing career to serve as General Counsel to the Writers Guild of America, West (WGA), where he was responsible for all legal matters involving the WGA's 11,000 members. Eventually, Goldberg was given additional duties in other areas and named the WGA's Deputy Executive Director. In late 2005, he left the WGA and returned to writing. He is currently living in Los Angeles and writing novels.

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