Does Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) really go above and beyond the call of duty for her clients?Last night, the junior-associate-slash-woman-scorned and the firm’s resident investigator, Kalinda Sharma (Archie Panjabi), pounded the Chicago pavement doing recon work trying to determine which of their jurors had been bribed—acting more like Cagney and Lacey than anyone who’s ever logged billable hours at a posh law practice. On the previous episode, Alicia went skulking through the back yard of a crime scene searching for something to get the son of a former neighbor off the hook. (A timed sprinkler going off ended up being the case’s clincher.) It all makes for gripping TV, but it has us wondering: When’s the last time that an attorney from, say, Jacoby & Meyers abandoned his dusty reference journals and went traipsing around in search of a smoking gun? Isn’t that what cops are for? Clearly, having so much mud slung at her family has left Alicia unafraid of getting her hands dirty.
What do you think: Do Alicia’s actions on behalf of her defendants seem likely?