He has also written for television shows such as Boston Legal, Close to Home, Outlaw and The Forgotten.
[4] After obtaining his Juris Doctor, he became an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, New York for the Homicide Investigations Bureau.
[4] He first became a writer for David E. Kelley on The Practice and later for Boston Legal, serving both as supervising producer.
[6] Having been a fan of both the movie version and the book of The Firm, Reiter sought out their creator, John Grisham, to explain his own curiosity about what happened to the characters beyond the endings of those parts of the franchise.
[4] Later, Reiter worked with Jerry Bruckheimer on the series The Forgotten and Close to Home and then served as an executive producer for The Firm.