5. Never trust someone who works on commission. Barbara Spiegelman is an elderly widow that just started a May-December romance with a clothing designer. When she ends up dead, her new boy toy is naturally a suspect. It turns out, however, that her social-climbing attorney—Kevin Doyle—thought his client was worth more to him dead than she was alive, thanks to the millions he would collect from her estate. (Episode: Right to Counsel, Season 3)
6. If you want to get revenge on a rival colleague, make sure you know where he lives. Physicist Edward Manning steals a revolutionary scientific idea from struggling scientist Max Weiss. Weiss, who is having trouble supporting his family, gets revenge by sending a bomb to his rival. However, he didn’t realize that Manning had moved when he separated from his wife, and as a result the unsuccessful scientist ends up killing her instead. (Episode: Big Bang, Season 4)
7. Never try to swindle a swindler. Lawyer Arthur Kopinsky is defrauding his clients by telling them he can find the hidden money that convicted swindler Willard Tappan stole from them—in exchange for hefty upfront payments. In the meantime, he is also blackmailing Tappan—which causes the felon to manipulate a victim of both men to kill the attorney. (Episode: Scoundrels, Season 5)
8. Don’t mix business with pleasure. Paul Kopell is a hotshot attorney that gets too involved with his mob clients—spending time at their homes, going out for drinks, and bribing a juror to hang their trials. Once Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy hears the scheme to kill the bribed juror discussed in a wiretapped conversation, kissing the mob boss’s ring won’t even help keep Kopell out of jail. (Episode: House Counsel, Season 5)
Part One: 8 arresting workplace lessons from 'Law & Order'
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