Lawyers in Love

Lawyers in Love is the seventh album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1983. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Pop album chart and number 30 on the Billboard 200. It was Browne’s fourth straight Top 10 album and stayed on the charts for 33 weeks. Out of eight tracks, five were released as singles. The title song was a top-twenty pop hit for Browne, and was accompanied by one of his first music videos released on MTV.

In the intervening years since 1980’s Hold Out and the release of Lawyers in Love, Browne released the single “Somebody’s Baby” which became his biggest commercial hit to date. In the track “Downtown,” he ad-libs a line to the melody of the Petula Clark song of the same name at the end of the song.
Lawyers in Love was the first album without David Lindley appearing since 1973’s For Everyman.
The album was certified as a Gold record in 1983 and Platinum in 2001 by the RIAA.

Although “Lawyers in Love” and “For a Rocker” were successful singles, the album received a lukewarm reaction by critics. In his review for Allmusic, William Ruhlmann referred to Browne’s often overlooked songcrafting, but wrote “…the craft, and the familiar tightness of Browne’s veteran studio/live band, couldn’t hide the essentially retread nature of much of this material.”