Roger S. Wolfson is an American TV writer and screenwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, and is most notable for writing for the TV series Fairly Legal, Saving Grace, The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Century City. Wolfson has also been staff to four U.S. Senators: Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Paul Wellstone, and Ted Kennedy. He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post.
Currently a writer & producer for USA Television Network's Fairly Legal (2011).
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He arrived in Los Angeles in January of 2003, and became represented by 'Creative Artists Agency' (CAA) in April. By July he won a staff writer slot on the CBS series, Century City (2004). Wolfson's episode, "To Know Her," became the first episode aired after the pilot, and was seen on CBS on March 23rd, 2004. By that time Wolfson had already been hired by NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
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First cousin of Publicist Lisa Wartur (NoodleHead Productions).
At the time Wolfson left the Senate, at the age of 32, he was one of the only staffers in history to have worked full-time for the most prominent Liberal, Moderate, and Conservative members of the Democratic Party.
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Sold two original TV series pilots to Sony Studios, and previously wrote for TNT's Saving Grace (2007) starring Holly Hunter.
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While writing for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), he wrote speeches for, and traveled the country as a surrogate speaker, for the Senator John Kerry Presidential campaign.
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One of his episodes of The Closer (2005),"Fantasy Date", garnered Kyra Sedgwick an Emmy Nomination.
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Founded the strategic consulting firm Haft, Harrison, and Wolfson. Under the auspices of this firm, Wolfson took part in diplomatic missions around the globe, including to Israel to meet with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, and to Brazil to meet with Governor Benedita da Silva.
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He is a member of the bars of New York, Connecticut, Washington, DC, and the U.S. Supreme Court (having been presented to the Chief Justice by U.S. Senators Jim Jeffords and Jeff Bingaman).
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Earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Comparative Labor Law Journal, his Masters in Writing from Johns Hopkins, and his Bachelors in Theater from Vassar, with highest academic honors.
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He has worked for four law firms, including Littler, Mendelson, the largest labor law firm in the world, and Lieberman, Segalof, and Wolfson, the firm his mother and Senator Joe Lieberman founded.
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Helped develop the Reverend Al Sharpton's Presidential platform and stump speech, and accompanied him on his first trip to New Hampshire.
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Saving Grace
2007-2009
TV Series story editor - 12 episodes
The Closer
2005
TV Series story editor - 12 episodes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2004
TV Series story editor - 10 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fairly Legal
2012
TV Series written by - 1 episode
In the Mix
2009
TV Movie
Saving Grace
TV Series written by - 4 episodes, 2007 - 2009 teleplay - 1 episode, 2008
The Closer
TV Series teleplay - 1 episode, 2005 written by - 1 episode, 2005
$700,000
