Contents

The Good Wife and the Real Life

KIMBERLY BALTZER-JARAY and ROBERT ARP

I      Ethically Speaking

  1.  Legal Ethics! Really?

JUDITH ANDRE

  2.  Death’s Just a Click Away

JAI GALLIOTT

  3.  The Odd Consequences of Sweeney the Snake

ROD CARVETH

II     Why She’s The Good Wife

  4.  How to Love When You’re a Good Wife

CÉLINE MORIN

  5.  Saint Alicia and the Burden of Care

KATHLEEN POORMAN DOUGHERTY

III   The Defense Rests

  6.  Are Judges Always Biased?

MARK D. WHITE

  7.  Why Should I Believe You?

LISA MCNULTY

  8.  Doing the Wrong Thing for a Good Reason

JAMES EDWIN MAHON

IV   Psychobabble

  9.  Peter’s Peter Problem

SKYLER KING AND ROBERT ARP

10.  The Death Drive in The Good Wife

ROGER HUNT

V     A Balancing Act

11.  Can a Good Wife Have It All?

JENNIFER SWANSON

12.  Bringing Home the Bacon

KAREN ADKINS

VI   Virtues and Vices

13.  The Virtue of a Politician’s Spouse

JOHN R. FITZPATRICK

14.  Alicia Saint of Professionals

ANA CAROLINA AZEVEDO AND MARCO ANTONIO AZEVEDO

Women Lawyers—Good, Bad, and Memorable

Philosophers Who Were Also Lawyers

The Top Eleven Lawyer Jokes

Equity Partners and Associates

Index