Pity. If there was a real-life Denny Krane then I think I'd like to meet him. William Shatner is superb in the role and no one could have done better.

Of course I understand that the series has improvised on the proceedings, etc. But say for example in an episode of Boston Legal the writers used a specific law in one of their ficitional cases (for example, the only witness in a key murder investigation is a catholic priest who, by law, cannot disclose the contents of the confession of the killer.) Would this view of the law be accurate in a real court of law?