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Felicity Huffman is heading backmost to the courtroom.
The histrion is acceptable to look successful ABC's The Good Lawyer, a spinoff of The Good Doctor, according to Deadline, which marks Felicity's archetypal acting relation since serving 11 days successful jail successful 2019 for her relation successful the infamous assemblage admissions scandal.
The Good Lawyer volition prima Nancy Drew's Kennedy McMann as Joni DeGroot, a promising young lawyer with obsessive compulsive disorder, who is sought by The Good Doctor's Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) for ineligible representation.
Huffman volition play Janet Stewart, Deadline reports, "a highly regarded lawyer and spouse astatine the instrumentality steadfast with a fierce intellect and adust wit," who besides has a transportation to The Good Doctor.
"Janet has represented Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) successful respective ineligible matters implicit the years," according to the outlet, "so helium turns to her to correspond his beloved protégé. But erstwhile Shaun declares that helium wants Joni to correspond him, Janet is forced to fto Joni instrumentality pb connected the case."
Huffman and McMann volition debut during an occurrence of The Good Doctor titled "The Good Lawyer" (confusing, we know), airing connected March 6, with aboriginal plans for the bid inactive up successful the air.
It's been implicit two-and-a-half years since Huffman has appeared on-screen. She past co-starred successful the Netflix's constricted bid When They See Us, astir the Central Park Five, which really premiered connected the streamer astir 3 months after her March 12 apprehension successful narration to the admissions scandal.
As portion of the investigation, the Desperate Housewives alum eventually admitted to paying a assemblage admissions advisor $15,000 to person a proctor alteration her girl Sophia Macy's answers aft she took the SAT.
Huffman plead blameworthy to charges of message fraud and honorable services message fraud successful May 2019 and completed 11 days of her 14-day condemnation successful October of that year.
"I would similar to apologize again to my daughter, my husband, my household and the acquisition assemblage for my actions," the histrion said astatine her Sept. 2019 sentencing hearing. "And I particularly privation to apologize to the students who enactment hard each time to get into college, and to their parents who marque tremendous sacrifices supporting their children. I person learned a batch implicit the past six months astir my flaws arsenic a person."
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The Good Doctor's occurrence titled "The Good Lawyer" airs March 6 astatine 10 p.m. connected ABC.
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