The series focuses on Leonie “Leo” Roth, a media lawyer who has her own law firm in Berlin. Through her work for various important clients, she has gained national renown. Their task is to represent them in public in the best possible way and to influence public opinion in their favour. In order to protect the privacy of its clients and defend them against public criticism, it sometimes resorts to illegal means. [2] LEGAL AFFAIRS TV SERIES Source: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin JacobsenSource: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin JacobsenSource: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin JacobsenSource: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin JacobsenSource: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin JacobsenSource: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin Jacobsen Director of Legal Affairs: Randa Chahoud and Stefan Bühling “Leo Roth is Germany`s most successful media lawyer. With her Berlin law firm, she moves as confidently on the political scene as she does in the glamorous world of the rich and famous. For Leo Roth, his job is about one thing: winning every deal. Its goal is to protect the privacy of its prominent and non-eminent clients while shaping public opinion. He wants to prevent fake news and media witch hunts and protect people from the murder of the media personality through fake news reports, shitstorms and avalanches on Twitter.
Over the course of the series, the lawyer finds himself entangled in a fatal thicket of political and private intrigues. The figure of Leo Roth is inspired by Germany`s best-known media lawyer, Prof. Dr. Christian Schertz, who initiated the series with Martina Zöllner, Head of Film and Documentary at rbb, and Benjamin Benedict, producer of UFA Fiction, and is the main advisor: “Due to the great series of American lawyers such as SUITS, THE GOOD WIFE, BOSTON LEGAL or SCANDAL, it is high time that a corresponding series is also produced in Germany. LEGAL AFFAIRS tells an exciting legal work using the example of a media lawyer. In these cases, socially relevant topics such as Internet hate, human rights violations and fake news are addressed. (…)” (Qeelle www.ufa.de) Source: ARD Degeto/RBB/Kerstin Jacobsen “LEGAL AFFAIRS is a UFA Fiction production commissioned by ARD Degeto and rbb for ARD. Benjamin Benedict is the producer, Kristina Henning is the executive producer, Karoline Griebner is the producer.
Directed by Randa Chahoud and Stefan Bühling, Julian Hohndorf and Jan Prahl are behind the camera. The main authors of the writers` hall are Lena Kammermeier and Felice Götze. The editors are Christoph Pellander and Claudia Luzius (ARD Degeto) and Martina Zöllner and Kerstin Freels (rbb). LEGAL AFFAIRS is funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. (Source: www.ufa.de) DE – 2021 – Drama Series Screenplay: Lena Kammermeier, Felice Götze Director: Randa Chahoud, Stefan Bühling Production: UFA Fiction Channel: ARD Degeto Source: ARD/ Ufa Fiction Reviews Selection Weser Kurier “Von Srupeleln keine Zweifel”: “It is oppressive to see how Lavinia Wilson has bought her role as an icy lawyer, who sometimes resorts to radical means to defend her clients against unpleasant headlines. The fact that you always put tabloid journalist Götz (Stefan Kurt) at risk and shamelessly ignore the privacy of everyone involved in order to grasp the next big story certainly doesn`t make you think of real cases purely by chance. With “Legal Affairs”, ARD has managed to produce a very exciting series that has probably never existed in this form in Germany before – while criticizing a media world that is constantly chasing the next scandal. “Scandal” sends greetings, because Leo Roth can certainly be measured against crisis manager Olivia Pope (beautifully played by Kerry Washington). Hat! (By teleschau – Franziska Wenzlick, Source: www.weser-kurier.de/kultur/film/von-skrupeln-keine-spur-doc7itphkwoyk29jdtyla ) Tittelbach Martina Kalweit writes about “Legal Affairs” to Tittelback.tv: “If you like him breathlessly, you should stick to it. The level and intensity of individual cases vary, the horizontal narrative thread about Roth`s private involvement in a corruption case culminating in murder is always present. Cinematic means such as the handheld camera that never stops and the use of blur suggest a shimmering nervousness. In the wake of American series such as “Scandal” and “Suits”, “Legal Affairs” gains its own format through current and concise cases of German jurisdiction.
A captivating series that shows the power of manipulation with aha moments. (Source: www.tittelbach.tv/programm/serie/artikel-5970.html ) EPD Films At EPD Films, Harald Keller writes: “Leo Roth is not grumpy. Your charming smile can turn into a flap in no time. This can hurt people on a massive scale, sometimes driving them to despair or even suicide. This main character is contradictory and therefore courageous. Not an easy task to secure the public`s affection for such a figure. This succeeds because Lavinia Wilson reveals a vulnerability hidden behind the insensitivity displayed. (Source: www.epd-film.de/tipps/2021/mediathek-legal-affairs) (Source: www.epd-film.de/tipps/2021/mediathek-legal-affairs) SPBMCC is not only the law firm of record for the Uniformed Firefighters Association; We also assist firefighters and their families with a wide variety of legal issues. Leo Roth is Germany`s most successful media lawyer. With her Berlin law firm, she moves as confidently on the political scene as she does in the glamorous world of the rich and famous.
For Leo Roth, his job is about one thing: winning every deal. Its goal is to protect the privacy of its prominent and non-eminent clients while shaping public opinion. He wants to prevent fake news and media witch hunts and protect people from the murder of the media personality through fake news reports, shitstorms and avalanches on Twitter. Over the course of the series, the lawyer finds himself entangled in a fatal thicket of political and private intrigues. The series is based on an idea of media lawyer Christian Schertz, who gained media fame through the representation of numerous celebrities. He asked Martina Zöllner, head of the documentary and fiction programme department at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, why there is “no busy, modern, clean Netflix-style lawyers` series” in Germany. [3] Schertz advised on scripts and served as executive producer on the series. “Legal Affairs” wants to entertain in an exciting way, in each episode there is a new case, while the investigation in its own name turns into a drama about the consequences. Here, the magnificently nasty lawyer […] experiences her loss of control. This is sorely necessary, because otherwise it would be a bit one-dimensional if Roth won his cases in an ever-threatening tone. […] The strengths of the plot far outweigh the sometimes artificial verbal spectacle.
David Grabowski & Jonas Nay (theme music: Tutti Bounce, father theme: Till Brönner) Randa Chahoud // Germany, 2021TV Series // FF2021Website of the film Blackmail, mobbing, sex: the daily bread of a famous lawyer. The famous media lawyer Christian Schertz was the inspiration behind the series, which is oriented towards American series like Boston Legal, Suits or Scandal. Leo Roth (Lavinia Wilson) is Germany`s most successful media lawyer. She moves confidently through the highest circles of Berlin. His capricious behavior, always aware of power, sometimes invasive, polarizes, which does not harm his reputation at all. When Leo`s brother-in-law, the Berlin Interior Senator, entrusts him with the task of preventing his affair with a young colleague from coming out, Leo`s well-controlled world begins to falter. FILMFEST HAMBURG presents the first two parts of this eight-part series by Randa Chahoud and Stefan Bühling. “If you love him breathlessly, you should stick to it. The level and intensity of individual cases vary, the horizontal narrative thread about Roth`s private involvement in a corruption case culminating in murder is always present.
Cinematic means such as the handheld camera that never stops and the use of blur suggest a shimmering nervousness. In the wake of American series such as “Scandal” and “Suits”, “Legal Affairs” gains its own format through current and concise cases of German jurisdiction. A captivating series that shows the power of manipulation with aha moments. (Source: www.tittelbach.tv/programm/serie/artikel-5970.html ) Martina Kalweit writes about “Legal Affairs” at Tittelback.tv: “Drawing a story of significantly below-average plausibility over eight times 45 minutes is difficult, even for experienced chewing gum chewers like Mimi. So there must be a lot of meaningless side stories in there; But we know it from the crime scene. “No doubt about the scruples”: “It is oppressive to see how Lavinia Wilson has bought her role as an icy lawyer, who sometimes resorts to radical means to defend her clients against nasty headlines.
