
At the very least, it's cheaper than law school.īefore you raise your objections, let's get some qualifications out of the way.


Though ethically compromised lawyers have mostly retreated to the small screen, where shows like Billions and The Good Fight carry on the legal thriller tradition, there's no shortage of great legal thrillers to revisit. With Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 arriving on Netflix and the recent Supreme Court hearings playing out in the headlines, it's an ideal time to escape into the twist-filled, monologue-packed world of a legal thriller, a genre that's largely faded from the multiplex in recent years.
