"The Practice" is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centring on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm.
 The series was broadcast for eight seasons from 1997 to 2004, initially as a mid-season replacement.
 "The Practice" won many Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 1998 and 1999.
 As part of the fictional universe in which many shows produced by David E. Kelley are set "The Practice" had crossover story arcs with "Gideon's Crossing", "Boston Public", and "Ally McBeal" in addition to its own more jovial spin-off series "Boston Legal", which was broadcast from 2004 to 2008.
Gideon's Crossing is an American medical drama starring Andre Braugher.
 The series was loosely based on the experience of real-life physician Jerome Groopman and his book "The Measure of Our Days".
 It premiered on October 10, 2000, and ran for one season, with its last episode airing on April 9, 2001, with a one episode ("The Old School") remaining unaired.
Rizwan Ahmed (Urdu: ‎ ; born 1 December 1982), also known as Riz MC, is a British-Pakistani actor, rapper and activist.
 As an actor, he won an Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Independent Film Awards.
 He was initially known for his work in independent films such as "The Road to Guantanamo" (2006), "Shifty" (2008), "Four Lions" (2010), "Trishna" (2011), and "Ill Manors" (2012), before his breakout role in "Nightcrawler" (2014).
 In 2016, he starred in "Una", "Jason Bourne", and as Bodhi Rook in the first "Star Wars" "Anthology" film, "Rogue One".
 That year, he also starred in the HBO miniseries "The Night Of" as Nasir Khan; the show and his performance were critically lauded.
 At the 2017 Emmy Awards, he received two nominations, for his performance in "The Night Of" and his guest spot in "Girls"; he won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for "The Night Of", becoming the first Asian and first Muslim to win in the category, the first South Asian male to win an acting Emmy, and the first Muslim and first South Asian to win a lead acting Emmy.
Lynne E. Litt is an American television writer and producer.
 She has written episodes of "Law & Order", "Gideon's Crossing", "The Practice", "Lost", "Crossing Jordan", "In Plain Sight", and "Drop Dead Diva".
 She is also a supervising producer on "Crossing Jordan".
Dee Hibbert-Jones is a film director, producer and animator.
 She is best known for co-producing and co-directing the short-documentary "Last Day of Freedom" (32 mins) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nomination at the 88th Academy Awards, with Nomi Talisman, an Emmy Award ( Northern CA) and the IDA Best Short Documentary Award.
 Hibbert-Jones is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Art New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is founder and Co-Director of SPARC at UCSC a Social Practice Arts Research Center.
 Hibbert-Jones and Talisman were awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship They won an Emmy Award for Last Day of Freedom, at the 45th Annual Northern California Emmy® Awards (News and Program Speciality - Documentary Topical), the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and a Gideon Award for support to Indigent Communities.
 Currently they are nominated for the 2016 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award.
 Among Dee Hibbert-Jones' festival awards are: Best Short Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Best Short Documentary Hamptons International Film Festival, Golden Strands Award, Outstanding Documentary Short, Tall Grass KS, Best Experimental Short, Atlanta Docufest, Impact Award (In) Justice for All, and the 2015 Platinum Award Winner Spotlight Documentary Series.
 Hibbert-Jones is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellow and Headlands Center For the Arts Alumni.
 She holds an MFA from Mills College Oakland, MA York University, PGCE from Durham University and a BA from London University.
 Born in the UK she lives in San Francisco CA.
Ravi Kapoor (born 27 June 1969) is an English actor of Indian heritage best known for his roles on "Gideon's Crossing" and "Crossing Jordan".
 Before relocating to Los Angeles, Kapoor worked for ten years as an actor in England.
 He trained at East 15 Acting School.
 Kapoor is married to actress Meera Simhan.
Gideon King is an American businessman, Jazz-rock and fusion musician.
 He is best known for his role as the CEO of Loeb King Capital Management.
 He is also a founding partner at Off Road Capital.
 King is the founder of Gideon King & City Blog, a critically acclaimed act that has been compared to Steely Dan.
Doug Spearman (born September 3, 1962, in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor.
 His career highlights include work on such television shows as "Noah's Arc", "Star Trek Voyager", "The Drew Carey Show", "The Hughleys", "Charmed", "Gideon's Crossing", "MAD TV", "Girlfriends" and "Profiler".
W. Fred Turner (April 17, 1922 – November 23, 2003) was an American attorney.
 He successfully defended Clarence Earl Gideon in his retrial after the "Gideon v. Wainwright" case overturned his conviction.
 The story behind this case was told in Anthony Lewis's 1964 book "Gideon's Trumpet".
 Discussion of Turner's role is in the Epilogue, pages 234-250.
Andre Keith Braugher ( ; born July 1, 1962) is an American actor.
 He is best known for his Emmy-winning role as Detective Frank Pembleton on "" from 1993 to 1998 and again in the 2000 , as well as his roles as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the TNT show "Men of a Certain Age", and Captain Raymond Holt on the Golden Globe-winning comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine".

Question: What role did the star of Gideon's Crossing win an Emmy for?
Answer: Detective Frank Pembleton