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Many have speculated that the show’s creator David E. Kelley based this fictional Judge Zoe Hiller on the real-life former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, Hiller B. Zobel...
...although Zobel does not recall meeting Kelley, he has heard the former-lawyer-turned-writer has said that he argued a case before the infamous judge...
...Judge Hiller’s determination not to waver in the face of public opinion and dedication to the letter of the law seem strikingly similar to the presence Zobel became famous for in the Middlesex County Courthouse...
...District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel, who graduated with 18 other women in 1956, said that as a woman in a pre-feminist era, she did not think too much about the prejudices against...
...felt much less discriminated against by the law school than the women did later on,” Zobel said. “But that’s because we weren’t terribly sensitive...