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Set in Los Angeles in the year 2030, Century City follows the legal team of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero. At the helm are the firm's four partners, the founder and senior partner Hannah Crane; veteran attorney Marty Constable; the pleased-with-himself attorney Darwin McNeil; and the former Californian Congressman and newest partner, Tom Montero. The team is supplemented by the ambitious enthusiasm of two young associates, the self-critical and earnest Lukas Gold and the genetically enhanced first-year associate Lee May Bristol.With the developments of cloning cells, genetic profiling, mind-altering antibiotics and even virtual rape, the attorneys of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero find themselves with an ongoing case load of precedent setting cases. In a time when lawyers can go before judges as holograms, the firm takes on such morally and ethically ambiguous cases as parents suing their doctor for withholding critical results of their unborn child's genetic mapping; defending a man accused of robberyRobbery is the crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation, sometimes resulting in the murder of the victim; a perpetrator of a robbery is a robber . This is different from embezzlement, larceny, and theft. Piracy is a type of robbery. for "stealing" back his identityIn philosophy, identity is the quality of being "the same as". It is of particular interest to logicians and metaphysicians. Logic In logic, the identity relation is normally, (by definition), the transitive, symmetric, and reflexive relation that holds o from his ex- fiancée who has uploaded his presence and personality; protecting the rights of a woman who has been virtually raped through nanotechnologyNanotechnology as a collective term refers to technological developments on the nanometre scale, usually 0. One nanometre equals one thousandth of a micrometre or one millionth of a millimetre. The term sometimes applies to any microscopic technology.; and defending a rockRock and roll also called rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony backing), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural phenomenon, starThis is an alphabetical list of popular music performers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The list includes also performers of other countries who have become widely known in North America, Great Britain or Ireland. See also who refused to alter the laws of human natureHuman nature is the range of human behaviour that is believed to be invariant across long periods of time and across very different cultural contexts. Sometimes debate on this subject is phrased as the quarrel over nature versus nurture', but that phrase to help his bandIn music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. Types of bands all-women band big band brass band bluegrass band boy band girl group concert band (also known as a wind band or stay on top. The attorneys are exceedingly aware that progress and development bring both luxuries and challenges. Tackling uncharted legal territory, Century City provides an eye-opening look into the issues confronting society in the year 2030 - the not-so-distant future.
In the year 2030, the United States has 52 states and socialist healthcare, Oprah Winfrey is the President of the United States (her Vice President is an openly gay, retired four-star U.S. armed forces general) and the Moon has been colonized. Life expectancy for American females is in the mid-nineties.
Century City aired on the US CBS television network on Tuesday evenings and premiered on March 16, 2004. CBS ordered nine episodes, but broadcast only four before cancelling the series. Episode running time is 60 minutes.
