- Ambulance Chasers is a half-hour, multi-camera comedy about what happens to the bottom 50% of the law school graduating class. L.A. Law, it isn't.
- Ambulance Chasers is a half-hour, multi-camera comedy about what happens to the bottom 50% of the law school graduating class. L.A. Law, it isn't. It's about the cast-outs; the attorneys no one else wants. These are the lawyers who squeeze water out of rocks, or as we say in the business, the lawyers who can make shit shine.
The show is set at the law firm of Ariana Kouzoukas & Associates, a high volume, personal injury firm in Chicago. These are not your typical TV lawyers. The office is a dump, with lawyers crammed on top of each other. It's loud and high stress. The phones ring all day. Attorneys scream at their clients, at their opponents and at each other.
The main character, Joe Blazejorski, is fresh out of the worst law school in Chicago. It took him three times to pass the bar exam, which he failed twice. He has delusions about "Justice" which are based on TV as well on his law school studies, that didn't prepare him for reality. This firm is nothing like that. Joe was hired at Kouzoukas & Associates, because it's the only place that would hire him.
Joe's thrown into the deep end and at first he wants to get out, but during the course of the series, these people will become his lifelong friends. The show is about how he learns to swim and excel in the profession.
In the pilot episode, it's a typical day in the office: everyone is dumping their shitty work on Joe. Just when he is a the breaking point, Joe gets a job offer from a top law firm and he accepts, finally on his way out. His co-workers do everything they can to keep him there, and Joe has to make the decision of whether to stay with this group of friends, or move to a sure thing job with a stable legal future.
Ambulance Chasers is a Multi-Cam version of "The Office" in a legal setting. The people who inhabit this world are mercenary. They love money but also justify it by believing somehow that this kind of law serves the public good, too. Or at least a few of them do. Think "Big Bang Theory"/"Barney Miller" meets "Boston Legal"/"The Office".
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