A mystery with court scenes!

It is a mystery centered on a missing person’s case that alternates between recent chapters and the current court case. Harry and Zara are desperate to find their 17-year-old daughter. After canvassing the neighborhood asking questions of all the neighbors, Harry focuses on a neighbor who didn’t want to answer the door, while Zara delves into her daughter’s life to find clues. In the latest timeline, there is a court case that slowly unfolds from beginning to end…

Sherrice, a Black transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison, says she killed John in self-defense while being hired for sex work. The John in question is the son of a prominent New Jersey man, so Erin McCabe has her work cut out to not only protect her client, but also McCabe and her ex-wife after witnesses die. FBI partner must survive…

There are many books that I like (just mercy, a knock at midnight, furious hours) which I could have used, but I thought I’d go with something I’ve never seen mentioned before, as well as go into the deep backlist since LA Law is such an ’80s show.

It will really sound like I’m telling you the story of Erin Brockovich – which is based on a real woman and case – but it predates that case. In the mid-70s in Woburn, Massachusetts, a dozen children were diagnosed with leukemia. A civil action follows a lawsuit that the families filed through personal-injury attorney Jan Schlichtman — who sued two giant corporations for poisoning the water — focusing on Schlichtman and how the case Almost destroyed it. The book also stars a 1998 adaptation with several well-known actors: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, and Tony Shalhoub.

Vernetta Henderson has just been assigned her first criminal case, but there are some hiccups: she doesn’t believe the client is innocent of her husband’s murder (!), and she’s partnered with a lawyer she hates. Then there’s her personal life: Her husband is now ready to have kids and hopes to join the Henderson board, but she’s focused on her career — starting with this case!