{{more citations needed|date=June 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = Men at Law | genre = Legal drama | creator = David Karp | writer = | director = {{plain list | * Marvin J. Chomsky * Lee H. Katzin }} | starring = {{Plain list | * Robert Foxworth * Sheila Larken * David Arkin * A Martinez }} | theme_music_composer = Morton Stevens | open_theme = | composer = {{Plain list | * Harper MacKay * George Romanis * Morton Stevens }} | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 23 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = Leonard Freeman | producer = {{Plain list | * Harold Gast * Roland Kibbee }} | editor = Ira Heymann | cinematography = Jack Courtland | camera = Single-camera | runtime = 48 mins. | company = {{Plain list | * Leonard Freeman Enterprises Productions * National General Corporation }} | channel = CBS | first_aired = {{Start date|1970|09|16}} | last_aired = {{End date|1971|04|14}} }}

'''''Storefront Lawyers''''' (also known as '''''Men at Law''''')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=cbs&p=304&item=T82:0317|title=Men at Law|author=<!--Not stated-->|work=Paley Center for Media Archives|publisher=Paley Center for Media|location=Los Angeles and New York City|date=|accessdate=June 12, 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Hyatt|2003|page=196}} <!-- STOP...do NOT change to 'was' -->is<!-- NOTE-remains as "is" per Wikipedia convention; see WP:WikiProject Television/Style guidelines#Lead paragraphs. --> an American legal drama that ran from September 1970 to January 1971 and February 1971 to March 1971 on CBS. The series starred Robert Foxworth, Sheila Larken, David Arkin, and A Martinez.{{sfn|Hyatt|2003|page=196}}{{sfn|Erickson|2009|page=253}}

==Plot== David Hansen (Foxworth) is a big-shot lawyer who grew tired of his important and expensive Los Angeles law firm Horton, Troy, McNeil, & Caroll. Hansen left his job to start a non-profit firm called ''Neighborhood Legal Services'' based in Century City, California. His associates were Deborah Sullivan (Larken) and Gabriel Kay (Arkin). Roberto (Martinez) is a law student who worked for them as a clerk.

After 13 weeks, ''CBS'' decided to take the series in a different direction so that the lawyers could take on rich clients as well. The network retitled the series as '''''Men at Law''''' as the three protagonists went back to work for their former law firm.{{sfn|Erickson|2009|page=253}}

==Cast== ===Main=== * Robert Foxworth as David Hansen * Sheila Larken as Deborah Sullivan * David Arkin as Gabriel Kaye * A Martinez as Roberto Alvarez

===Recurring=== * Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Devlin McNeil

==Episodes== {{Episode table |background=#FF29FF |overall= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |prodcode= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = A Man's Castle | DirectedBy = Lee H. Katzin | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|09|16}} | ProdCode = 101 | ShortSummary = A man invades an exclusive party then singles out one guest. The man shoots him dead. ''Guest stars'': Edward Andrews, Dean Jagger, Carmen Mathews, Barry Morse, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, and Bill Zuckert. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = The Law Can't Touch Him | DirectedBy = Marvin J. Chomsky | WrittenBy = Meyer Dolinsky | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|09|23}} | ProdCode = 102 | ShortSummary = An abused wife asks the Lawyers' help in divorcing her violent husband. ''Guest stars'': Melinda Dillon, Robert Dowdell, Frederic Downs, James McMullan, and Bill Quinn. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = Murph Collins vs. Tomorrow | DirectedBy = Marvin J. Chomsky | WrittenBy = Alvin Sapinsley | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|09|30}} | ProdCode = 103 | ShortSummary = Murph Collins loses his job to affirmative action. An explosion happens, and he is the prime suspect. ''Guest stars'': Ramon Bieri, Lonny Chapman, Mariclare Costello, Harrison Page, Joan Shawlee, and James Stacy. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = The Electric Kid | DirectedBy = Marvin J. Chomsky | WrittenBy = Ronald Austin & James D. Buchanan | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|10|07}} | ProdCode = 104 | ShortSummary = A con artist pulls a big con against his landlord. The landlord's position is shaky at best. ''Guest stars'': Leon Ames, Diana Eden, Dana Elcar, J. Pat O'Malley, William Sargent, and Joyce Van Patten. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = The Emancipation of Bessie Gray | DirectedBy = Marvin J. Chomsky | WrittenBy = Robert Van Scoyk | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|10|14}} | ProdCode = 105 | ShortSummary = A woman, who cannot hold a job as a nurse's aide, sues the head of the school where she got her training. ''Guest stars'': Rupert Crosse, Claudia McNeil and Paul Stewart. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = Survivors Will Be Prosecuted | DirectedBy = Marvin J. Chomsky | WrittenBy = Arthur Heinemann | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|10|21}} | ProdCode = 106 | ShortSummary = ''Unknown'' ''Guest stars'': William Conrad, Roberto Contreras, Robert Cornthwaite, Emilio Delgado, Edith Diaz, Lloyd Gough, Murray Hamilton, and Frank Ramirez. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = Easy to Be Hard | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|01|10}} | ProdCode = 107 | ShortSummary = A welfare case agent is accused of raping a woman. ''Guest stars'': Lou Antonio, Isabelle Cooley, Sharon Farrell, Ned Glass, and Maidie Norman. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = Where Are You At? | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = George Bellak | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|04}} | ProdCode = 108 | ShortSummary = Deborah, in defending a man accused of a string of arson fires, falls in love with the ADA prosecuting the case. ''Guest stars'': Richard Anders, Robert Brubaker, Dennis King Jr, Joaquín Martínez, Bob Padilla, David Renard, Tony Roberts, Kenneth Tobey, and Bill Zuckert. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = Shadows of Doubt | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = Alvin Sapinsley | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|11}} | ProdCode = 109 | ShortSummary = ''Unknown'' ''Guest stars'': Anne Archer, Jonathan Lippe, Lloyd Gough, Charles H. Gray, and Bill Quinn. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = This Is Jerry, See Jerry Run | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = Bill Stratton | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|18}} | ProdCode = 110 | ShortSummary = A young man's dyslexia lands him in financial trouble and makes him unemployable. ''Guest stars'': Lloyd Bochner, David Doyle, John Kidd, Kurt Russell, and Patricia Smith. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = The Pastures of Hell | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = Harold Gast | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|11|25}} | ProdCode = 111 | ShortSummary = The pastor of a downtown mission clashes with an activist who frequently bombs the mission. ''Guest stars'': Beverly Atkinson, Harry Hickox, Steve Ihnat, Tony Martinez, James McEachin, and Gerald S. O'Loughlin. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = Where Were We, Waldo? | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = E. Arthur Keane | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|12|09}} | ProdCode = 112 | ShortSummary = An illiterate man's arrest record makes him unemployable. ''Guest stars'': Fran Ryan, Jacqueline Scott, Paula Victor, and Anthony Zerbe. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = First... We Get Rid of the Principal | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = George Kirgo | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|01|13}} | ProdCode = 113 | ShortSummary = A student protest results in a dead administrator while a student is on trial for murder. ''Guest stars'': Nancy Burnett, Sheldon Collins, Val de Vargas. Carmen Zapata, and Stanley Bennett Clay ({{small|Uncredited}}). | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | Title = The Climate of Doubt | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = Bill Stratton | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|02|03}} | ProdCode = 114 | ShortSummary = A college student suspected of bludgeoning a police officer to death during a campus riot. ''Guest stars'': David Jolliffe, Rick Kelman, John Lasell, Logan Ramsey, Dennis Redfield, and Dan Travanty. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | Title = Marathon | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|02|10}} | ProdCode = 115 | ShortSummary = A student dives his car off a pier and drowns. The widow hires the lawyers to sue the psychiatrist involved. ''Guest stars'': Jack Cassidy, Nina Foch, Sue Lyon, Greg Mullavey, and Glynn Turman. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | Title = The Dark World of Harry Anders | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|02|17}} | ProdCode = 116 | ShortSummary = A heavy-handed financier takes over a movie studio and uses various means, lawful and unlawful, to compel the studio to turn a motion-picture project into a porn project. ''Guest stars'': Lane Bradbury, Jeanne Cooper, Harry Guardino, and John McLiam. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | Title = Hostage | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|02|27}} | ProdCode = 117 | ShortSummary = While a woman on trial for planting a fatal bomb, the boyfriend takes Deborah hostage in the firm's law offices. ''Guest stars'': Meg Foster, Arthur Franz, Felice Orlandi, John S. Ragin, Ford Rainey, and John Rubinstein. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | Title = The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|03|03}} | ProdCode = 118 | ShortSummary = A man comes home from work one day to find detectives in his house accusing him of being a serial sex murderer. ''Guest stars'': Jean Hale, Cloris Leachman, and David Wayne. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | Title = Let the Dier Beware | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|03|17}} | ProdCode = 119 | ShortSummary = When the clinic chief physician winds up dead, a woman that took her father out of a controversial clinic is the lead suspect. ''Guest stars'': Jean Hale, Cloris Leachman, and David Wayne. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | Title = The View from the Top | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|03|24}} | ProdCode = 120 | ShortSummary = A rich man hires the Lawyers after a security guard at a hotel finds him walking away from a dead woman. ''Guest stars'': Ramon Bieri, Lane Bradford, Lew Brown, Jeane Byron, Steve Forrest, Noah Keen, Maggie Malooly, Marilyn Maxwell, Kay Medford, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, and Wayne Rogers. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | Title = Yesterday Is But a Dream | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|03|31}} | ProdCode = 121 | ShortSummary = After a husband drugs his wife, the Lawyers defend the wife who shot her husband while in a drug-induced daze. ''Guest stars'': Adele Bellroth, Melendy Britt, Ivor Francis, Lee Grant, John S. Ragin, Ford Rainey, John Vernon, and Garry Walberg. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | Title = This Money Kills Dreams | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|04|07}} | ProdCode = 122 | ShortSummary = ''Unknown'' ''Guest stars'': Martin E. Brooks, Jack De Mave, Laurence Haddon, Katherine Justice, Connie Mason, Woodrow Parfrey, Herman Poppe, Tom Skerritt, and Fritz Weaver. | LineColor = FF29FF }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 23 | Title = One American | DirectedBy = ''Unknown'' | WrittenBy = ''Unknown'' | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1971|04|14}} | ProdCode = 123 | ShortSummary = A small group of passionate young men protest war and find themselves behind bars. ''Guest stars'': Brenda Dickson, Ron Hayes, William Shatner, and Jan-Michael Vincent. | LineColor = FF29FF }} }}

==Reception== ===Critical response=== In the book, ''The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers'' edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, "The ''Storefront Lawyers'' featured two men and one woman, all WASPS, but the presence of a woman was a departure at the time when women still constituted less than five percent of the profession."{{sfn|Sarat|Scheingold|2008|page=216}} "The ''Storefront Lawyers'' emphasizes that passivity, suggesting lawyers do nothing unless called upon. Given anxiety over lawyers trolling for clients, this portrayal suggests there is nothing to worry about. From the viewer's perspective such things simply do not happen."{{sfn|Sarat|Scheingold|2008|page=218}}

In his ''Time magazine'' interview, critic Richard Burgheim lumped the new CBS legal series together with another of the network's bids at "revelvance," noting "''The Storefront Lawyers'' (CBS) and ''The Interns'' (CBS) both exploit ''Mod Squad''{{'}}s multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing."{{sfn|Erickson|2009|page=253}}

==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist}}

===Sources=== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6oJBAAAQBAJ&q=Robert+Foxworth+as+David+Hansen&pg=PA253|title=Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008|first=Hal|last=Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=New York City|year=2009|isbn=978-0786438280|page=253}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ty21CgAAQBAJ&q=Robert+Foxworth+as+David+Hansen&pg=PA196|title=Short-Lived Television Series, 1948–1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops|first=Wesley|last=Hyatt|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=New York City|edition=1st|year=2003|isbn=978-0786414208|page=196}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05l83gFpQHQC&q=was+Storefront+Lawyers+also+known+as+Men+at+Law%3F&pg=PA216|title=The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers'|editor1-first=Austin |editor1-last=Sarat|editor1-link=Austin Sarat|editor2-first=Stuart |editor2-last=Scheingold |publisher=Cambridge University Press|edition=1st|location=Cambridge|year=2008|isbn=978-0521884488}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0065347|Storefront Lawyers}}

Category:1970 American television series debuts Category:1971 American television series endings Category:American legal drama television series Category:CBS legal dramas Category:English-language American television shows Category:Television series by CBS Studios Category:Television shows set in Los Angeles