After Diane Neal's role as ADA Casey Novak, Michaela McManus will play the role of ADA Kim Grayleck starting season ten. I made a mistake saying that she would be playing "Pietta O'Mara". I got that from Wikipedia (i think) but I think that Kim Grayleck is accurate; it is from the producer of SVU's production blog. Sorry for the error!
Oliver was the district attorney
Adam Schiff is the District Attorney of New York county on Law and Order.
Four actors played the District Attorney on the original Law and Order series:Steven Hill played District Attorney Adam Schiff 1990-2000 (230 episodes).Diane Weist played District Attorney Nora Lewin 2000-2001 (47 episodes).Fred Dalton Thompson played District Attorney Arthur Branch 2002-2007 (116 episodes).Sam Waterson played interim District Attorney Jack McCoy 2008-2010 after playing the Executive Assistant District Attorney 1994-2007 (combined total 368 episodes).
Season 9, episode 10, entitled "Hate".
He was Adam Schiff, the District Attorney
Assistant District Attorney, Casey Novak (played by Diane Neal) from 2003-2008 was preceeded by ADA Alexandra Cabot (played by Stephanie March).
you can be a district attorney and i think they have the most power
An ADA is an Assistant District Attorney. In most cities, the District Attorney is an administration official, usually elected. The ADAs do most of the actual prosecution of criminal cases and will hold their jobs from one administration to the next. The job of the District Attorney's office is to prosecute the criminal cases brought to them by law enforcement agencies (police, sheriff, state police, etc.) and are usually representing the county. They prosecute cases from all the cities and towns within that county, usually in a county courthouse.
Both shows have two very important parts- the police who investigate the crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the crimes in court. Law and Order involves a group of deectives who investigate various crimes from bank robberies, to muggings, to rapes and murders. Then the district attorney prosecutes the suspect in court. In Law and Order SVU, the group of detectives belong to a special division of the NYPD that investigates only sexually based crimes. Then the district attorney's office has a special attorney assigned to prosecute these specific suspects. Both shows have the same idea. Law and order focuses more on the lawyers while Law and Order SUV focuses more on the investigation by deectives and phsychologists.
You need a bachelor's degree (4 yrs) and a law degree (3 yrs). It may be helpful to take criminal law classes while in law school, but this is not usually required. The most important qualification to be a district attorney or an assistant district attorney is being licensed to practice law in your state.
Actor Steven Hill played the character District Attorney Adam Schiff in 229 episodes of the original Law and Order series, and one episode of Law and Order: SVU.
District Attorney