UC Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall in Popular Culture

Boalt Hall in Popular Culture

• Sandy Cohen, a character on the popular television series The O.C., is a lawyer and a Boalt Hall alumnus. "The O.C. at Boalt" is a student group that, in addition to screening episodes of The O.C. during the lunch period, offers the Sandy Cohen Fellowship, a summer grant for students who plan to work as public defenders (on The O.C., Sandy Cohen worked as a public defender while living in Orange County). In recent years, "The O.C. at Boalt" has also managed to bring Peter Gallagher, the actor who plays Sandy Cohen, to Boalt to speak on an annual basis.
• Matthew Perry played a Republican graduate of Boalt Hall on multiple episodes of The West Wing.
• Kelly Rutherford played lawyer Samantha 'Sonny' Liston, a graduate of Boalt Hall, on E-Ring.
• Joanie Caucus, a character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, attended Boalt Hall.
• In Catch Me if You Can, Martin Sheen plays Roger Strong, the District Attorney of New Orleans and a Boalt Hall alumnus.
• Mike Daly, protagonist of the bestselling Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez novels by Sheldon Siegel, is a Boalt Hall graduate and, together with his wife, taught there for about a year.
• In the movie Intolerable Cruelty, a copy of the California Law Review is featured prominently on a table in the senior partner's office.