Tearful witnesses. Clashing attorneys. Surprising testimony.

Courtrooms are a TV staple for a cause, and curiosity in authorized dramas has remained regular within the streaming period. To assist decide which reveals you shouldn't dismiss with prejudice, right here's Leisure Weekly’s checklist of the ten greatest lawyer reveals on Netflix.

Take your decide between critically acclaimed sequence (When They See Us), crowd-pleasers (Suits), and well-kept secrets and techniques (Fisk).

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Higher Name Saul (2015–2022)

One of the best lawyer present on this checklist options arguably the worst lawyer of the bunch. It’s not that Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) is dangerous at his job; it’s that his ethics are a bit… missing. However that’s no shock for viewers who first met him as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad.

Higher Name Saul rewinds to his early days as he tries to, effectively, break good. At his aspect is his loyal (to a fault) higher half, Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), who places her religion in Jimmy’s decency whilst his less-than-legal impulses perpetually get him into bother. Jimmy finds an occasional outlaw bedfellow in, you guessed it, hitman/fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), whose backstory is fleshed out simply as a lot as Saul's.

As showrunner Peter Gould tells it, Odenkirk’s brilliance made all the things fall into place. “He's enjoyable to look at, and he could make lightning transitions like no one else,” he informed EW in 2022. “He took on the problem from day one in such a severe, centered approach. What we realized was that we might write something — something — for him, and he would run with it.”

Where to watch Better Call Saul:Netflix

Forged: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Michael McKean, Jonathan Banks, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Mando, Patrick Fabian, Tony Dalton

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Extraordinary Lawyer Woo (2022)

Lawyer Woo Younger-woo is extraordinary, and so is the romantic Ok-drama that bears her identify. Park Eun-bin stars as Younger-woo, a rookie lawyer on the autism spectrum who pairs her intelligence with a singular perspective to assist her purchasers in novel methods. (This attitude typically includes whales, dolphins, and different marine animals. Sure, it’s as sudden and as endearing because it sounds.)

Extraordinary Lawyer Woo tackles hot-button points in South Korea and past, together with neurodivergent defendants navigating the felony justice system, discrimination in opposition to these with disabilities, and the difficult political waters that include defending a North Korean defector. But it surely additionally gives massive laughs, massive feelings, and massive swoons — the latter courtesy of Younger-Woo’s fledgling romance with fellow lawyer Lee Jun-ho (Kang Tae-oh).

Where to watch Extraordinary Attorney Woo: Netflix

Forged: Park Eun-bin, Kang Tae-oh, Kang Ki-young, Jeon Bae-soo, Tom Choi

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The Lincoln Lawyer (2022–current)

Primarily based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling novels, The Lincoln Lawyer is a sun-soaked L.A. present starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as offbeat, idealistic protection lawyer Mickey Haller, who works his instances from the backseat of his Lincoln Navigator. Below the steerage of David E. Kelley, who is aware of a factor or two about authorized reveals, every season follows an overarching case that has Mickey and Co. getting concerned with colourful SoCal locals.

Newton informed EW in 2024 that The Lincoln Lawyer has allowed her to stretch her performing wings. “This present has allowed me personally to take action a lot,” she stated. “I’m in a position to do comedy, I get to carry a funny-looking canine, I get to put on wonderful costumes and likewise get to do that unimaginable dramatic work.”

Where to watch The Lincoln Lawyer: Netflix

Forged: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson

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Fits (2011–2019)

The most effective issues about lists like that is discovering reveals you've by no means heard of earlier than. With that in thoughts, allow us to let you know about Fits.

Kidding, in fact. All people you already know, together with their kids, grandparents, and neighborhood barista, was delighted to find this USA Community transplant when it debuted on Netflix and Peacock in 2023 and broke Nielsen’s streaming data. Whether or not you resisted the pull of those well-dressed attorneys or it’s time on your second (or ninth) rewatch, put together to lose your self within the simple chemistry of Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Mike (Patrick J. Adams). Their mentor/mentee dynamic hides a secret: Mike is a school dropout with no legislation diploma, and Harvey knew this however employed him as an affiliate anyway.

Where to watch Suits: Netflix

Forged: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Gina Torres, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Meghan Markle

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When They See Us (2019)

The true story of the Central Park 5 unfolds over 5 highly effective episodes on this restricted sequence, which creator Ava DuVernay described to EW in 2019 as a deep dive into the U.S. criminal-justice expertise. The present begins in 1989 when 5 Black and Latino youngsters are wrongfully accused of rape within the Central Park Jogger case. It might take 1 / 4 of a century for his or her convictions to be overturned, with myriad legal professionals (performed right here by a string of high-profile character actors) concerned at each stage.

When They See Us started as a function movie, however DuVernay quickly realized she’d want extra display time. “As I delved into the story and researched it for 4 years and checked out these courtroom transcripts, did all of the analysis of the press protection and talked to all these households and heard their tales, I assumed, ‘Oh gosh, it is a sequence,’” she stated. “A undertaking tells you what it desires to be, proper?” The top end result netted Jerome an Emmy as Korey Clever, the member of the Exonerated 5 who served probably the most jail time.

Where to watch When They See Us: Netflix

Forged: Jovan Adepo, Justin Cunningham, Chris Chalk, Freddy Miyares, Jharrel Jerome, John Leguizamo, Niecy Nash, Michael Ok. Williams

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Your Honor (2020–2023)

Judges are individuals too, and Your Honor amplifies the tensions between private {and professional} for Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston), a revered New Orleans choose who learns that his teenage son killed one other boy in a visitors collision. And never simply any boy, thoughts you, however the son of a mob boss (Michael Stuhlbarg). How can Michael uphold legislation and order in his courtroom whereas additionally making an attempt to maintain his son alive and out of jail?

“Each time there's a personality who’s dealing with an emotional, moral dilemma, it attracts me in,” Cranston informed EW in 2020. “You go, ‘Yeah, I feel beneath stress and shock, you could possibly make a mistake like that.’ That risk lends itself to some actually terrific drama.” On the matter of Your Honor delivering terrific drama, we concur.

Where to watch Your Honor: Netflix

Forged: Bryan Cranston, Michael Stuhlbarg, Hope Davis, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Hunter Doohan

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Fisk (2021–current)

This charming Australian comedy finds former high-powered lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan) amid private {and professional} meltdowns that ship her packing to her hometown of Melbourne. There, she takes a job as a solicitor at a rinky-dink wills-and-probate agency run by siblings Ray and Roz Gruber (Marty Sheargold and Julia Zemiro).

Flanagan, the present’s creator, additionally writes and directs, bringing a brainy awkwardness to Helen as she grows into her new place — however by no means out of her three brown fits. Fisk is a big-hearted comedy that finds each humor and heat as Helen learns the ins and outs of working with the oddballswho populate her new world.

Where to watch Fisk: Netflix

Forged: Kitty Flanagan, Marty Sheargold, Julia Zemiro, Aaron Chen

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The Recruit (2022–2025)

The Recruit leans laborious on the action-heavy exploits of Noah Centineo’s CIA beginner Owen Hendricks, however hear us out: Owen’s technically an lawyer. Certain, he doesn’t see the within of many courtrooms when he’s unwittingly pulled into dangerous globetrotting missions, however don’t overlook he graduated from Georgetown Regulation. Heck, the pilot episode’s title, “I.N.A.S.I.A.L.,” stands for "I'm Not a Spy, I'm a Lawyer"!

Centineo is immensely sympathetic all through this slick, fast-paced sequence, absorbing verbal blows from his unimpressed co-workers and bodily ones from his deadly foes. The present was canceled shortly after its season 2 premiere, and I.F.O.A.S.B.A.I. (That’s “I, For One, Am Nonetheless Bummed About It,” in case it wasn’t clear.)

Where to watch The Recruit: Netflix

Forged: Noah Centineo, Laura Haddock, Kristian Bruun, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Vondie Curtis-Corridor, Maddie Hasson

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Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)

David E. Kelley, who’s been churning out authorized dramas for many years, delivered a late-career gem in Anatomy of a Scandal, an adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s British authorized thriller. Sienna Miller stars as Sophie Woodhouse, the spouse of a British MP (Rupert Pal) accused of sexually assaulting the younger aide (Naomi Scott) who was his mistress. James’ trial dominates this miniseries, which finds Sophie coping with the emotional and authorized fallout.

Director S.J. Clarkson informed EW in 2022 that she discovered her approach into the story by way of the connection between Sophie and prosecutor Kate Woodcroft (Michelle Dockery). “There's an implicit connection between the 2 characters,” Clarkson stated. “I virtually think about from the get-go this seen tether between them throughout the episodes that in a approach they have been psychically having a dialog beneath the storytelling because it unfolds due to their historical past, even when they weren't acknowledging it. That was one thing I felt ripe for mining.”

Where to watch Anatomy of a Scandal: Netflix

Forged: Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Rupert Pal, Naomi Scott, Joshua McGuire, Josette Simon

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The Regulation Based on Lidia Poët (2023–current)

In case you desire corsets and cravats in your authorized drama, The Regulation Based on Lidia Poët will likely be proper up your lushly appointed alley. This sensible, trendy Italian interval piece is impressed by the lifetime of Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis), who confronted authorized challenges in her quest to change into a lawyer within the late Eighties.

Lidia routinely confronts societal prejudices and institutional roadblocks, together with ones that drive her to work beneath the supervision of her lawyer brother after the courts bar her from practising solo. With a brand new homicide to unravel in each episode, Lidia — and the present — show themselves to be unapologetically feminist, brashly sexual, and completely participating. Caso archiviato! (That’s, um, “case dismissed” in Italian.)

Where to watch The Law According to Lidia Poët: Netflix

Forged: Matilda De Angelis, Eduardo Scarpetta, Pier Luigi Pasino, Sara Lazzaro, Sinéad Thornhill, Alessia Spinelli

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