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Adam Schiff
The Jewish DA on Law and Order as Acted by Steven Hill
Adam Schiff is a fictional
Jewish character on the TV
drama series Law & Order. He was played by Steven Hill from 1990 to
2000. Schiff was one of the main characters of the series and
appeared in every episode of the first ten seasons except for
Everybody's Favorite Bagman, which was produced before Hill joined
the cast. He appeared in 229 Episodes (228 Episodes of Law & Order
and 1 episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Character overview
Schiff is District Attorney of New York County. Schiff is a graduate
of Columbia University, where he served on the Law Review. He is a
pragmatic Democrat of faintly liberal stripe, but regardless of
political inclinations, he is never perturbed by his critics nor by
uncooperative judges. Political persuasions sometimes cloud his
decisions with regard to certain cases such as the death penalty,
however. According to the episode "Aftershock", he wrote a brief
protesting the death penalty in 1971.[1] He is also pro-choice.[2]
While he is often stern and unforgiving in his professional conduct,
he has amicable relationships with his assistants. He is closest to
Benjamin Stone (Michael Moriarty), seeing him as a kind of surrogate
son, and so is disturbed to see him resign when a witness he is
trying to protect is murdered.[3] His relationship with Stone's
successor, Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston), is more problematic, as McCoy
is more ruthless and unconventional, and his habitual bending of
trial rules occasionally garners Schiff some bad publicity. The two
eventually grow to like and respect each other, however. Schiff is
more critical of the junior assistant DAs, especially Claire Kincaid
(Jill Hennessy), whom he sees as too idealistic to do her job
effectively.
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