Case is closed for 'Boston Legal'

December 07, 2008 Given those factors, he says, the run of four years, four and a half seasons, and 101 episodes (tonight's two-hour finale counts as two) highlighting the lives, loves and wacky times inside the high-priced law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt was surprising enough. If you tuned in (for) a single episode and looked at it in a vacuum, you'd wonder what planet they were coming from and probably move on. That's saying something for a onetime lawyer who has reigned for two decades as one of the most successful and decorated writers and producers in television history, one whose legal series resume includes the hits "L.A. Law," "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice," and also boasts the dramas "Picket Fences," "Chicago Hope" and "Boston Public."

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