Spoilers ahead for Suits LA season 1, episode 1.
happened in every Suits episode. Given that Suits LA comes from the same creator, Aaron Korsh, I assumed some of these story beats would return.
To be fair, Suits LA episode 1 was drastically different from Suits’ pilot. As much as we all tried to identify the spinoff’s equivalent to the likes of Harvey, Mike, Jessica, and Louis, Suits LA’s characters have very different relationships compared to those of the original series. That said, Suits LA does echo some aspects of Suits, including a weird trend about the name of the firm that always bothered me and required a lot of suspension of disbelief.
Suits LA's Firm Has Already Changed Names After Just One Episode
From Black Lane Law To Black & Associates
Suits LA was set to be about the attorneys at Black Lane Law – or at least we thought. Suits LA pilot's big twist was that Stuart Lane, co-founder of Black Lane Law, betrayed his partner and put Ted Black out of the merger they were planning. Not only did Stuart Lane take his side of the firm with him, but he also stole dozens of partners, associates, and important clients. At the end of the episode, we see that Ted Black’s firm is now called “Black & Associates.”
The Name Of The Firm In Suits |
Season |
|---|---|
Gordon Schmidt Van Dyke |
Flashbacks |
Pearson Hardman |
1-2 |
Pearson |
2 |
Pearson Darby |
3 |
Pearson Darby Specter |
3 |
Pearson Specter |
3 |
Pearson Specter Litt |
4-7 |
Specter Litt |
7 |
Zane Specter Litt |
7-8 |
Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams |
9 |
Specter Litt Wheeler Williams |
9 |
Specter Litt Williams |
9 |
Litt Wheeler Williams Bennett |
9 |
It took around 20 minutes for Suits LA to change the name of the show’s main law firm, which happened 12 times during the original series. From Gordon Schmidt Van Dyke in the flashbacks to Litt Wheeler Williams Bennett in the series finale, the firm in which Suits took place had 13 different names throughout the show. The irony of Suits LA’s firm changing names so quickly was not lost on Aaron Korsh, who jokingly told TV Line, “I wanted the firm to change names in the very first episode because we did it so often in the original [series].”
Suits' Firm Changing Names So Often Was One Of The Show's Weirdest Tropes
Almost Everyone Got To Have Their Name On The Wall
Law firms changing names is not necessarily uncommon, but the fact that one of the biggest firms in New York changed its name almost every year for nine years was one of the weirdest things about Suits. Even though the series was not focused on legal accuracy and was more about the characters than the cases, seeing the firm changing names all the time would sometimes break the illusion and remind us that we were watching a TV show.
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Getting their “name on the wall” was the ultimate goal for most of the Suits characters, regardless of what it would take. Between Harvey almost stabbing Jessica in the back to Louis using Mike’s secret as leverage, we have to it that Suits knew to create some good drama around the name partner promotion. It remains to be seen whether Suits LA’s firm will keep changing names all the time as well, or if what happened in the pilot was a one-time thing.
Source: TV Line
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