The second time is in the courtroom of Danny`s ex-therapist in the episode Race Ipsa (episode). Dr. Sydney Fields pulls out the gun when Alan questions him on the witness stand. Sydney tells Denny that he is going to shoot Alan in front of his eyes and the whole court and kill a person who sees Denny as his best friend that Denny cares about and to whom he tells his secrets. Tara Wilson also explained that Alan has three sides: the good side, the bad side and the bad side. The good side is Alan`s honorable intentions while defending innocent people in court, but the bad side of him couldn`t bear the burden of being the right guy. In an attempt to reach Alan, Tara tried to appeal to his naughty side by presenting his underwear in a folder. The aforementioned ad brawl also reflected Alan`s personality; Tara once said that „it`s always about Alan Shore“, with „always“ being the key point. She also claimed that he thought he was the center of the universe.

However, Alan is unwavering in his defense of the underdog (unless he represents the other side). A tireless promoter of various left-wing causes and with liberal views, Alan supports freedom of choice, gun control, the Democratic Party and passionately opposes the Iraq war and the death penalty, which has led to sharp political ideological conflicts between him and Denny, who is a staunch supporter of war, the death penalty, the conservative Republican and the Bush supporter on several occasions. But their friendship remains intact despite political differences. He constantly expresses his disappointment and disillusionment with the way the country has changed in recent years and regularly raises these issues in court. Alan was born in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1962. he is of Scottish origin; his great-grandfather Jack Shore emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1903. Alan`s childhood included having one of his secretaries, Cathrine Piper, as a neighbor to whom he played pranks. Alan talked about two childhood friends he had. One of them was Paul Stewart, whom he first met in kindergarten, and Tom Dougan, who would later become a priest. At the age of 14, Alan lost his virginity to a friend of his mother`s. Alan slept with Paul`s mother when he was 16.

According to one of his courtroom closures, Alan claims to have his great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather Jack Shore, grandmother Monica Shore, father Peter Shore, mother and siblings, although this was never really confirmed as he may have invented them for the purposes of this closing argument. At one point in his life, he had to seek help from a sexual surrogate named Joanna to help him cope with perhaps the most unusual paraphilia: some sort of attraction to his mother and the way she touched him when she matched (not sexually) his pants when he was a child. I`d like the issues raised by Alan Shore (James Spader) to be addressed again in another episode of Boston Legal. If the Supreme Court were to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Shore for his conduct in court, the arguments about the correctness of his arguments could be fascinating. On the night of the April 22 primary in Pennsylvania, viewers were subjected to one of the most vocal criticisms from the conservative Supreme Court since John Roberts Jr. became chief justice in 2005. But the attack was not delivered by a candidate or a cable news program. Instead, he came during an extraordinary episode of the ABC legal drama/comedy „Boston Legal.“ In the fourth season, Alan reached the peak of his legal career by representing a death penalty case before the Supreme Court. He criticized many sitting judges for the politicization of the Supreme Court. An interesting point is that he has largely (but not only) attacked Republican-appointed judges, which is consistent with Alan`s liberal stance on many issues.

Denny, although he didn`t really argue, insisted on attending the trial because he never pleaded before the Supreme Court. He saw this opportunity as a must for his legacy to be complete. In the fifth season, the sixth episode, it is revealed that he has won this case. He is considered an unethical lawyer because of the sometimes dubious methods he uses to help his clients; However, Alan seems to be able to help his clients and fellow lawyers when no one else can, due to his quick wit and obvious fearlessness of the consequences of his illegal actions. Once, an unlicensed physician removed a bullet from one of Lori Colson`s clients after the client refused to have it extracted in a hospital because she could convict him; Alan helped him because the bullet could have put the man`s life in danger. Alan also helped Shirley circulate nude photos taken in her youth by simply buying and keeping them to himself, and discouraged a predatory court curator who had appointed himself an administrator of an old woman who was a friend of Catherine Piper by breaking into the man`s house. Tie it up and gag it and steal discs. His usual strategy in the courtroom is to identify what he believes to be underlying issues in society that bring his clients into conflict with the law or another person in the first place, and articulate them in front of sympathetic jurors or judges, who often give him and his clients favorable sentences. Towards the end of season 8 in the episode „War of the Roses“, Eugene and Jimmy plan to fire Alan and warn Tara not to tell him. Tara warns Alan and is herself fired for it.