Top 25 Legal Crime TV Series of All Time

Closing arguments, shady clients and the odd courtroom twist, spread across network staples and prestige streaming alike.

1. 1
   Better Call Saul

   Breaking Bad prequel tracing Jimmy McGill's slide into becoming the lawyer Saul Goodman.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Law & Order

   Dick Wolf's long-running NBC procedural split between police investigation and courtroom prosecution.
   914pts
3. 3
   Goliath

   Billy Bob Thornton plays a washed-up lawyer taking on a corporate giant.
   792pts
4. 4
   The Good Wife

   Julianna Margulies stars as a lawyer rebuilding her career after her husband's political scandal.
   768pts
5. 5
   The People v. O.J. Simpson

   The first season of American Crime Story dramatizing the 1995 murder trial.
   685pts
6. 6
   The Night Of

   HBO limited series about a young man charged with murder after one fateful night in New York.
   685pts
7. 7
   Rumpole of the Bailey

   Leo McKern as the cantankerous, poetry-quoting barrister defending the underdog.
   621pts
8. 8
   L.A. Law

   Steven Bochco's glossy 1980s drama about partners at a Los Angeles law firm.
   621pts
9. 9
   The Practice

   David E. Kelley's gritty Boston series about a small firm defending difficult clients.
   621pts
10. 10
    Your Honor

    Bryan Cranston plays a judge who covers up his son's hit-and-run.
    548pts
11. 11
    Murder One

    Steven Bochco's serialized drama following a single murder case across a whole season.
    548pts
12. 12
    Damages

    Glenn Close and Rose Byrne in a twisting thriller of high-stakes litigation.
    548pts
13. 13
    Boston Legal

    A quirky Kelley spinoff pairing James Spader and William Shatner as brilliant, unorthodox lawyers.
    464pts
14. 14
    The Lincoln Lawyer

    Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Michael Haller, who works cases from the back of a Lincoln in Los Angeles.
    464pts
15. 15
    Perry Mason (1957)

    The classic courtroom drama starring Raymond Burr as the defense attorney who always cracks the case.
    464pts
16. 16
    Perry Mason (2020)

    HBO's noir reimagining of the lawyer's early years in 1930s Los Angeles, starring Matthew Rhys.
    464pts
17. 17
    The Good Fight

    The Good Wife spinoff following Diane Lockhart through the Trump-era legal world.
    365pts
18. 18
    Rake

    Richard Roxburgh plays a brilliant, chaotic Sydney barrister in the Australian series.
    365pts
19. 19
    How to Get Away with Murder

    Viola Davis plays a law professor whose students get tangled in a murder plot.
    365pts
20. 20
    Ally McBeal

    A comic, fantasy-tinged legal series following a neurotic young lawyer in Boston.
    365pts
21. 21
    Matlock

    Andy Griffith as a folksy Atlanta defense attorney who solves cases in court.
    365pts
22. 22
    Suits

    A fast-talking drama about a college dropout who bluffs his way into a top New York law firm.
    249pts
23. 23
    Presumed Innocent

    Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a prosecutor accused of murdering a colleague.
    249pts
24. 24
    Kavanagh QC

    John Thaw as a principled British barrister in the 1990s ITV series.
    249pts
25. 25
    Silk

    A British drama following barristers competing to become Queen's Counsel.
    0pts

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