Submitted by Richard Niederberg.

“I came up with the license plate LA LAW,” Richard Niederberg wrote to us. “Steven Bochco, producer of Hill Street Blues, saw it on my vehicle parked at CBS Studio Center and asked if he could use it as an opening title graphic in a TV series he was developing.”

Also see:

Deseret News: “L.A. Law Is Leaving the Air, but License Plate Stays Put”