TV & VIDEO - Aug. 10, 1987

Meanwhile, at another San Francisco convention last week, an American Bar Assn. panel gave “L.A. Law” good marks. The NBC series is developing “a cult status among young lawyers and law school students,” said Michael J. Kelly, dean of the University of Maryland Law School. Moderator Richard Dysart--a. k. a. senior partner Leland McKenzie on the series--joked about the explicit sexual themes that spice the show. He recalled one review noting the show had “a superb cast of barristers who spend more time taking off their briefs than filing them.”