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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's one thing to be beset by demons, but Elizabeth Canterbury has so many crushing problems that she makes Job look like a whiner.Even so, Julianna Margulies -- also listed as a producer of "Canterbury's Law" -- is convincing as a lawyer whose only true solace is her work. Still, she lives under a black cloud that threatens to burst at any moment and overwhelm the show. Beneath that cloud, though, lives a cutting-edge character who blends a rough-and-tumble style outside the courtroom with a polished but assertive femininity once the trial begins.It would have been interesting to see what Elizabeth was like four years earlier, just before her young son was abducted when she momentarily looked away. Then came the corrosion of her marriage to law professor Matt Furey (Aidan Quinn), a predisposition to drink and an emotionally empty affair with her friend, Frank Angstrom (James McCaffrey), a helpful private investigator. ADVERTISEMENTNow, her personal emotions are in lockdown, leaving only her Providence, R.I., law practice to slake her passions. In this, she is assisted by Russell Krauss (Ben Shenkman), a former lawyer in the attorney general's office whose ethical streak ran counter to the philosophy of his boss, Zach Williams, played with malicious cunning by Terry Kinney. Others in the Canterbury office are legal assistants Chester Grant (Keith Robinson), a straight arrow, and spunky Molly McConnell (Trieste Kelly Dunn).In the opener, Canterbury's client has been framed for abducting and killing the adolescent son of a prominent family. The teleplay, from creator Dave Erickson, wastes no time letting us know that the real villain is the boy's abusive father but the challenge will be proving it, or even getting the bully to take the stand.Canterbury practices law like she graduated from the University of Pellicano. She gets her investigator friend to tap into a juror's opinion and then suborns perjury -- and that's just in the ...