Legal thriller

The television series features a legal professional as the leading teacher and a group of law students who devise tactics to combat various criminal cases and murder mysteries.

[23] There is a difficulty for characters to balance personal life and professional success as women, people of color and marginalized individuals in legal thriller television shows.

[26] The characters in these shows displayed ardent personality traits when investigating and dealing with complex legal issues of the justice system.

[29] Thematic ideas of justice and equality are associated with the female lawyer protagonist's fight for change to break the glass ceiling.

[33] Books of the legal thriller genre include Bryan Stevenson's memoir Just Mercy and the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

[34] The character confronts problems with their personal life and work, as it is under threat by the complex case, creating and series of action and courtroom battles.

[35] The problems that characters face are evident within reviews of films such as The Judge, where family dynamics strain after a lawyer returns home for his mother's funeral.

[41] The five-part anthology, featuring Mangrove as the first visualizes courtroom drama and heroism, characterizing the legal thriller genre.

The film features elements of a conventional courtroom drama, such as the heroic lawyer, shady characters, and a law firm setting.

[48] The film defies the stereotypical expectations of women through featuring the main character as a woman who wants to speak openly about gang rape victimization.

[50] Marshall is another example of a legal thriller film, where the lawyer is feature as the main character, traveling the country on behalf of the NAACP to defend black men who are accused of crimes.

[51] The film features a courtroom scene where violence occurs in retrieving the confession of a client and the difficulty to obtain the truth.

[52] The courtroom scenes are considered suspenseful and the setting of the 1940s shows a stage where people threw a facade with fake costumes and bright lights.

[57] Harper Lee has provided a new understanding of the Southern women voice, as Eichelberger, Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston stated people "didn't really understand the South and looked down upon it ..."[58] In addition, the novel as a legal thriller worldwide sale topped 40 million and won numerous prizes such as the Pulitzer Prize.

It has impacted schools by becoming a part of the syllabus reading list for learning, as it addresses timeless concepts of racism and social injustice relevant to America.

[62] The film, Just Mercy, raises the themes of equality and justice for the racial injustice against black African Americans in the United States of America.

[65] There is progressive impact [66] on depicting race and gender equality, as they made the head an African American woman [67] and use female lawyers.

[69] Characters in the series such as the African American lawyer, Annalise Keating, played by the actor, Viola Davis represents racial diversity.

[72] The film has made a significant impact on audiences, as it has a turned a real-life hero to the all-time star of a courtroom drama.

[74] The elements of historical racism embedded within the film dates back to the 1950s and has created a riveting, touching tale on audiences.