10 Exhibits Like ‘Fits’ That Are Packed With Authorized Drama

All rise, when you’re finished viewing Fits on Netflix.

That’s after the USA Community collection — starring Patrick Adams as Mike Ross, a whip-smart faculty dropout who, mid-drug deal, lands a coveted authorized gig working for Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter regardless of not having an precise regulation diploma — has loved an enormous resurgence in viewership whereas streaming on Netflix and Peacock.

Fits reigns over the Nielsen streaming charts, the place it’s been smashing information since launching on Netflix in mid-June. The collection initially aired on USA Community from 2011 to 2019.

Right here’s one other 10 TV dramas largely in regards to the interior workings of regulation companies the place attorneys — hard-working, obnoxious or in any other case — defend and do something to win circumstances in courtrooms and boardrooms, ethically or not.  

Look no additional in your subsequent binge-worthy office dramas than this checklist, which is crammed with attorneys entwined in their very own authorized circumstances and romantic entanglements, whether or not darkish and nuanced or simply merely enjoyable and entertaining like Fits.

The Hollywood Reporter has you coated with extra authorized collection, extra courtroom wins (and losses) to maintain you on the sting of your seat by to the tip of the 12 months.

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer, a authorized drama from the prolific David E. Kelley, based mostly on the ebook collection by writer Michael Connelly, opens up a window on the authorized system in Los Angeles. However what’s new is protection lawyer Mickey Haller, performed by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, runs his regulation observe out of the again seat of his Lincoln city automotive. This authorized procedural can have you present up for court docket as Haller takes circumstances huge and small, every from a distinct nook of the regulation, and glam views of Los Angeles are tossed into the discount. And when you assume this collection idea sounds acquainted, you’d be proper. It’s a TV adaptation of the 2011 characteristic movie starring Matthew McConaughey, enjoying Mickey Haller as an iconoclastic idealist operating his regulation observe out of the again of his Lincoln automotive.

The Good Spouse

This frothy CBS authorized drama has a catchy premise — the spouse of a disgraced politician returns to work following her husband’s scandal. However a forged led by Julianna Margulies — bringing the aura of her Emmy-winning work on ER — and Christine Baranski produced greater than a authorized case-of-the-week drama because the collection mixed office pressure with courtroom drama to safe an eventual seven-season stretch. Will Alicia Florrick (Margulies) stand by her disgraced husband, performed by Chris Noth? Will Alicia and her regulation college love-turned-boss Will Gardner (Josh Charles) kiss? The Good Spouse at all times had viewers guessing which real-life political intercourse scandals it was dramatizing, even because the Chicago regulation agency’s attorneys defended drug kingpins, serial murderers and the wrongly accused.

Boston Authorized

James Spader gained three Emmys for his function as Alan Shore on David E. Kelley’s regulation drama Boston Authorized, itself a derivative of The Observe. The authorized collection, which ran for 5 seasons, had Spader headlining with William Shatner because the bombastic barrister Denny Crane because the drama portrayed their authorized circumstances, loves and wacky lives whereas working on the high-priced authorized agency of Crane Poole & Schmidt. That their office had loads of cigars, whisky and girls offered weekly fodder for what by some see now as a tone-deaf procedural drama from again within the day.

James Spader in Boston Authorized

Ally McBeal

If you happen to like Fits as a result of that slick lawyer present was crammed with fairly individuals and their issues, then the bumpy path of one other regulation agency and its titular character, Ally McBeal, performed as a pleasingly flawed and quirky Boston lawyer by Calista Flockhart, deserves your viewing. Created by David E. Kelley, the Nineties Fox authorized dramedy options McBeal as a hopeless romantic and ditz in her private life, but changing into an excellent lawyer when representing Cage and Fish authorized agency shoppers within the clutch. That’s key as a result of Ally McBeal was framed by the circumstances dealt with by McBeal and her fellow attorneys, nevertheless it was their private lives, typically messy, that saved viewers hooked. That’s particularly so with an ensemble forged that included Robert Downey Jr., Courtney Thorne-Smith, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu and Hayden Panettiere.

Calista Flockhart in Ally McBeal

Goliath

Billy Bob Thornton shines as a washed-up lawyer searching for redemption — acquainted theme in underdog  authorized dramas, honest warning — in David E. Kelley’s Amazon Prime Video collection Goliath. Thornton performs quirky Billy McBride, a previously sensible lawyer down on his luck and little greater than an ambulance chaser residing in a run-down motel. However a case that comes his means a few company large with shady authorities ties has McBride trying to sober up and get his slingshot again out. However he solely runs up towards corruption within the courts that has him combating for his life and profession — and all to get revenge on the regulation agency he based. Goliath ran for 4 seasons, and has McBride, regardless of being up towards huge odds, at all times getting his day in court docket.

Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath

White Collar

After Fits and the unlikely partnership and eventual friendship of Mike Ross and Harvey Specter, flip to a different USA Community collection, White Collar. It’s not strictly a authorized drama, extra a police procedural. But it surely has the identical testy and odd partnership at work as Tim DeKay performs FBI Particular Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer is the suave and semi-reformed con man Neal Caffrey. Given the onscreen chemistry between Neal and Peter and their refined evolution as fraudster and FBI handler over six seasons below the baton of creator Jeff Eastin, you’ll be rewarded with one other unlikely duo out to nab white-collar criminals and the crime caper’s shining glory. That’s when Peter, and viewers, aren’t left puzzling over whether or not Neal is simply pulling one other con!

The Observe

Utilizing a Boston regulation agency as a story device, The Observe follows the escapades and circumstances of legal protection attorneys led by senior associate Bobby Donnell, performed by Dylan McDermott. The characters and authorized techniques written into yet one more David E. Kelley courtroom drama has episodes that play to a realism within the authorized system, whereas nonetheless providing the glamour and heroics you count on of status dramas. Steve Harris as Eugene Younger and Michael Badalucco enjoying Jimmy Berluti additionally headline an ensemble forged with Kelli Williams, Camryn Mannheim, Lara Flynn Boyle and James Spader.

The Observe

Non-public Observe

A by-product of Shonda Rhimes‘s Gray’s Anatomy, this ABC office drama follows neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery, performed by Kate Walsh. After her notorious divorce with Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), she will get a recent begin in Los Angeles as a part of a clinic run by her mates, Sam (Taye Diggs) and Naomi (Audra McDonald). Moreover desirous to do the most effective by their sufferers, the medical doctors on the Seaside Wellness Group have amongst their colleagues lovers, greatest mates and mates with advantages. It will get as sophisticated because the sicknesses needing therapy, and there’s marriage ceremony bells within the finale.

The Good Battle

The court docket is in session at Paramount+’s The Good Battle — itself a derivative of CBS predecessor The Good Spouse from creators Robert and Michelle King and Phil Alden Robinson. This lawyer drama is anchored by Christine Baranski as resilient Diane Lockhart and the numerous shoppers represented by Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart over six seasons. The place attainable, they’re defended as deserving relatively than wealthy. However the character-based drama additionally starring Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn and Sarah Steele as Marissa Gold will get its gas from Lockhart balancing her personal complicity in unjust techniques as she pursues the fitting rulings in court docket, whereas all of the whereas needing to draw rich shoppers like a still-thriving Harvey Weinstein (albeit in an episode titled “The Gang Offers With Alternate Actuality”) to maintain her agency worthwhile. That different problem: having to out-crazy the Trump years with ripped-from-the-headlines plots.

Christina Baranski (middle) in The Good Battle

Higher Name Saul

A sequel-prequel of Breaking Unhealthy that starred Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn, AMC’s Higher Name Saul brings the legal underbelly of Albuquerque into the courtroom as we study extra in regards to the again story of Saul Goodman, AKA Jimmy McGill, and his wacky hijinks. First launched to Odenkirk’s character when he was Walter White’s sleazy lawyer on Breaking Unhealthy, we see the epic battle between Jimmy McGill’s good nature and his abilities as a born swindler who will cease at nothing to get his means as Saul Goodman — till he sheds that persona with its extravagant fits with one remaining rip-off and his remaining courtroom testimony to guard Kim Wexler, performed by Seehorn.