Family Business

"Family Business"
←	L&O, Episode 7.08	→
Production number: K1111 First aired: 20 November 1996
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Written By Barry M. Schkolnick & Gardner Stern Directed By Lewis Gould

Plot

A department-store murder casts suspicion on the two daughters of the store's owner, one of whom is the deceased's widow.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Benjamin Bratt as Detective Rey Curtis
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Carey Lowell as A.D.A. Jamie Ross
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Bill Moor as Defense Attorney Bill Patton
• Richard Venture as Defense Attorney Douglas Greer
• Rochelle Oliver as Judge Grace Larkin

Guest cast

• Anna Alvim as Irma Lopez
• Jean De Baer as Laura Bergreen
• Frank Girardeau as John Podbielski
• Chuma Hunter-Gault as Jose Ramos
• Olek Krupa as Victor Popov
• Carmen López as Gloria Manquez
• Jim Moody as Bobby Fox
• James Murtaugh as David Solomon
• Victor Slezak as Jeffery Arbaugh
• David Thornton as Paul Medici
• Anne Twomey as Kate Bergreen-Spiegel
• Joseph Wiseman as Seymour Bergreen
• Buzz Bovshow as Charles Herman
• Gene Silvers as Clarence
• Toni James as Jury Forewoman

References

• Danielle Steel
• John Joseph O'Connor
• INS
• Vancouver, Canada
• Virginia

Background information and notes

Episode scene cards

1	2	3
Home of Kate Bergreen 767 Park Avenue Tuesday, November 7	Bergreen Estate East Hampton, NY Wednesday, November 15	Supreme Court Motion Hearing Thursday, November 23

4	5	6
Supreme Court Trial Part 87 Friday, January 5	Chambers of Judge Grace Larkin Thursday, January 11	Supreme Court Trial Part 87 Monday, January 26

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