Jeffrey Tambor joins cast of "Lawyer" pilot

Cast member Jeffrey Tambor reacts at the panel for the NBC television series ''Twenty Good Years'' during the ''Television Critics Association'' summer 2006 media tour in Pasadena, California, July 21, 2006.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jeffrey Tambor, of "Arrested Development" and "The Larry Sanders Show," will co-star opposite David Tennant in NBC's hour-long pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer."

"Rex" centers on Rex Alexander (Tennant), a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and starts to coach clients to represent themselves in court.

Tambor will play Rex's psychiatrist, a specialist in anxiety disorders who himself suffers from them and who becomes romantically involved with Rex's mother. David Semel is on board to directed the comedic legal drama from a script by Andrew Leeds and David Lampson.

Tambor was seen on the big screen this year in "The Hangover" and "The Invention of Lying."

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)