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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 27, 2007

'Damages' Brings Hard-Nosed Female Litigators, White-Collar Crime to TV

LOS ANGELES - When a neighbor remarked that actress Glenn Close's character on the FX breakout show "Damages" must be based on Los Angeles litigator Patty Glaser, Carolyn Mankey instantly tuned in to the show. "Damages" offers the latest, chilling portrayal of a powerful woman litigator on television.

By Rebecca U. Cho
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - When a neighbor remarked that actress Glenn Close's character on the FX breakout show "Damages" must be based on Los Angeles litigator Patty Glaser, Carolyn Mankey instantly tuned in to the show.
      Mankey, a partner with Glaser at Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, has become hooked on the dark legal thril...

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