Paul Robinette

everybody's been on Law and Order

but he was the original like he's from like season one Law and Order Paul Robinette

So is he like a thousand years old?

He is now 63.

fun.

They were fun.

You guys have seen Paul Robinette.

He comes back as a defense attorney in season six.

His favorite Law & Order character is also someone whose professional identity changes.

I would say my favorite lawyer is from a show that I both love and hate, and it's Paul Robinette, who was the first junior AD.

I have a ton of issues with Law & Order, which I consider extreme copaganda, but an incredibly compelling watch.

But Paul Robinette was the sort of young, green guy idealistic, African-American assistant district attorney.

His evolution, I thought, was very interesting, both through his arc as a young attorney dealing with the ethics of the office as a young Black man, and then when they brought the character back in later seasons when he was a defense attorney where he had reoriented himself as a you know the famous question that came up in an early episode and then when he came back to the show was you have to decide if you're a lawyer who is black or a black man who is a lawyer And, you know, the revelation when he comes back as a defense attorney is that he is the latter.

He thought he was the former, but he is the latter.