I am still really enjoying Eli Stone and I think Jonny Lee Miller and company are doing a great job but there is a reason why I never watch law shows. It's a given that the speed at which they progress each case to trial every week is absolutely ludicrous but last night's episode pushed the bounds of legal reality so far afield the episode may have well been taking place through the looking glass. Please, please, please don't ever casually toss around the Supreme Court again and maybe I can try to suspend my disbelief. Sure, sure a junior associate would rapidly make her way to defend a case there just a few months after the case began - why not also show the characters successfully getting a U.S. president to legalize gay marriage while you're at it - fantasy land is such a nice place!
Also, no law firm would ever, ever, ever, ever put their property in an individual lawyer's name. Oy, oy.
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You forgot to mention the plot point that bothered me the most - the idea that a law firm has a board of directors who are not themselves partners (or even lawyers, apparently), and that this board of directors appoints executive management ie. the managing partner! The board can't possibly represent the interests of the shareholders, since not only are there not any shareholders, but if there were, the board members' fiduciary duty would be to enhance profits (without regard to morals), and therefore Jordan would have been out on his ass day one. I expect them to get legal niceties wrong, but this is ridiculous.
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