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===Crossovers with ''The Practice''===
{{See also|The Practice#Crossovers}}
Seymore Walsh, a stern judge often exasperated by the eccentricities of the Cage & Fish lawyers and played by actor Albert Hall, was also a recurring character on ''The Practice''. In addition, Judge Jennifer (Whipper) Cone appears on ''The Practice'' episode "Line of Duty" (S02 E15), while Judge Roberta Kittelson, a recurring character on ''The Practice'', has a featured guest role in the ''Ally McBeal'' episode "Do you Wanna Dance?"

Most of the primary ''Practice'' cast members guest starred in the ''Ally McBeal'' episode "The Inmates" (S01 E20), in a storyline that concluded with the ''Practice'' episode "Axe Murderer" (S02 E26), featuring Calista Flockhart and Gil Bellows reprising their ''Ally'' characters. Unusually for a TV crossover, ''Ally McBeal'' and ''The Practice'' aired on different networks. Bobby Donnell, the main character of ''The Practice'' played by [[Dylan McDermott]], was featured heavily in both this crossover and another ''Ally McBeal'' episode, "These are the Days".

Regular ''Practice'' cast members [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] and [[Michael Badalucco]] each had an uncredited cameo as their characters in ''Ally McBeal'' (Boyle as a woman who trades insults with Ally in the episode "Making Spirits Bright" and Badalucco as one of Ally's dates in the episode "I Know him by Heart").

In Season 5, [[Lara Flynn Boyle]] had an uncredited guest appearance as a rebuttal witness opposite guest star [[Heather Locklear]]'s character in the episode, "Tom Dooley".