Being a lawyer, it’s like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it’s lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.
— Lisa Joy, co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series “Westworld,” explaining why she still maintains her bar membership in California. Joy is a graduate of Harvard Law, and wrote her first screenplay while studying for the bar exam (which she “happily” passed). “Westworld” was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for best television drama series.
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