...full-time job on the spinoff, Boston Legal. The Practice also earned James Spader a lead acting Emmy as oddball attorney Alan Shore, and he, too, has joined Boston Legal's international law firm, Crane, Poole & Schmidt. Both shows, in addition...

NEW YORK -- Only an attorney like Alan Shore could have saved "The Practice" from death row. Shore...compelling, he's appalling," says Spader, flashing Alan Shore's enigmatic smile - "at the exact same moment...

...Capshaw remain, and Rhona Mitra has been added to the cast. But the truly inspired new ingredient is James Spader as Alan Shore, an untrustworthy antitrust lawyer who promises to keep things interesting. Spader employs his handsome but lopsided...