The Practice (TV Series)

The Chosen (2003)

Adam Arkin: Atty. Albert Ginsberg

Quotes 

• Atty. Albert Ginsberg : [to Shore]  You can't be willing to take this to trial.

  Alan Shore : Oh, but we can. She was terminated for a disability. That's against the law.

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : She was terminated for not being able to fulfill the function of the job. One such function being client relations. She claims God talks to her, for God's sake! She claims bald men access her thoughts.

• Atty. Albert Ginsberg : [to Shore]  We were offended by your little extortion attempt yesterday, and we're perfectly willing to go to trial on Thursday. And when we do, it's going to get out that your client is insane. Her peers are going to learn that she is deeply, deeply deluded and she will likely be unemployable forever. So, go ahead, Mr. Shore. Advise your client to move forward with this claim. Counsel her that it is in her best interest to do so.

  [to Sheila] 

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : And you? Why don't you just talk it over with God.

• Sheila Carlisle : Imagine being considered insane for endeavoring to communicate with God. I've been so ostracized by my firm these days, God was the only one who'd talk to me. Addressing specific jurors. You talk to her, Margaret, every night. And even though you think she's a he, that's okay.

  [Margaret nods] 

  Sheila Carlisle : And, Ward, I know you don't believe in Her, but when your wife survived cancer, you were heard to mutter, "Thank God."

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : Wha... what is going on here?

  Sheila Carlisle : I'm giving my opening remarks and I'd appreciate being allowed to finish. And this...

  [lifts a male juror's comb-over to reveal his bald head] 

  Sheila Carlisle : ... is fraud.

  Atty. Albert Ginsberg : Objection!

  Sheila Carlisle : Agnostic, Mitchell? Shame!