"Kate" centers on Kate Reed (Sarah Shahi), a top litigator who, frustrated with the bureaucracy and injustice she witnesses in the legal system, decides to become what The Hollywood Reporter calls "the ultimate anti-lawyer: a mediator."
USA president of orginal programming Jeff Wachtel said that the network tends to shy away from franchises but liked the different approach to a legal drama with a mediator. "This is someone who lives in a world of constant conflict," he said. "With traditional lawyers, it's always one wins, one loses; in mediation, the goal is to have a win-win."
As a divorce lawyer who works in New Jersey divorce court, and in front of New Jersey judges -- but who also offers New Jersey mediation services -- I hope this television program is well written and watched by a large and diverse audience. It's encouraging for the divorce mediation profession and for people in need of a divorce mediator or family dispute resolution, that the USA Network is focusing on this still all-too-little understood process.
