History Series / AllRise

** ''Fool For Liv'' gives us [[{{Jerkass}} Adam Pyrce]] who plays this trope straight to the hilt. Among his tactics is trying to influence, later intimidate the jury, submitting illegal evidence, making prejudicial statements, and using the press to paint his leaking as nothing more than court jargon. He even goes after Lola himself, which causes Lola to draw up a formal complaint and even threaten him with potential disbarment.

[[caption-width-right:350:...for the honorable Lola Charmichael]]

Lola Charmichael is a dedicated lawyer who trades in her job as a prosecutor for a robe as she becomes Los Angeles' first black female judge. Having worked her whole life for justice both social and criminal, Charmichael sees her career change as an opportunity to finally implement the changes she always dreamed of achieving.

What follows is a exploration into the cases and personal lives of those working in LA justice system inclding Judge Charmichael, her ChildhoodFriend [=LA=] prosecutor Mark Callen, public defender Emiliy Lopez, and bailiff and aspiring lawyer Luke Watkins.

** Judge Charmichael is the logical conclusion as noted in the very first episode: after years as a persecutor, she realizes that being a judge is a bigger influence in fixing the broken justice system.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Charmichael doesn't make a lot of friends among her fellow judges mainly because they see her as a NaiveNewcomer and she suspects her [[spoiler:hearing is about putting her in her place. Then it's DownPlayed, possibly even {{Subverted}}, as its implied that [[SecretTestOfCharacter the judges went along with the hearing to see if she'd stick to her guns or was all talk about making the system work again]].]]

* HangingJudge: Lola Charmichael actively works to be the {{inversion}} of this trope. Part of the series premise is that her interest as a judge is to not only impartial but also fair to the defendants including offering reasonable sentences.

* JackieRobinsonStory: Lola Charmichael begins the series as [=LA's=] first black woman judge which she sees as an opportunity to implement social changes, primarily by being fair and reasonable rather than aloof and indifferent as they're usually portrayed.

* MakeTheDogTestify: One episode revolved around two friends one of whom who owned a character in a MMORPG and the other accessing and deleting said character being charged with malicious hacking as a result. When Charmichael realizes that the victim is no more sociable as her avatar than in the real world she lets said victim testify while ''roleplaying'' as said character. [[spoiler:Unfortunately this backfires and Lola actually gets accused of trying to deliberately cause a mistrial.]]

* ShoutOut: Lola Charmichael's biggest hero and inspiration from her childhood is Nyota Uhura from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.

* TheMafiya: In the third season, Mark's father Vic has gotten indected to a Russian gangster. Mark, a prosecutor, is then {{blackmail}}ed into throwing cases on the gangster's behalf under threat of Vic being killed. However, he works with the FBI to bring the gangster down.

* HollywoodLaw: "Fire and Rain" sees stolen property excluded as evidence because it was obtained through a search warrant with an error (the wrong witness' name). However, this is covered by the "good faith exception" to the exclusionary rule, as the police didn't know there was a problem with the search warrant, so they didn't commit intentional misconduct. Further, Lola also meets ''ex parte'' with the defense attorney, a huge no-no since both sides must be privy to any discussions during the case. Admittedly it was about personal matters, though given how involved emotionally they still are this brings up another issue, that Lola might not be impartial toward his client and should recuse herself (this applies to other cases too-for instance her close friend Mark is a prosecutor who frequently appears before her, including in the case here, which wouldn't be allowed in reality to avoid accusatons of bias toward him).

* TokenMinorityCouple: Emily, a Latina, gets together with Luke, who's Black, early on in the series. When season 2 rolls around, they are taking a break due to issues caused by the Black Lives Matter protests back in July, but they still care about each other greatly.

* LatinoIsBrown: Most of the Latino characters have the standard black hair and olive skin. Sara has slightly lighter skin and chestnut brown hair, attributed to her actress being half-Caucasian, though she is still a Latina who's appearance visibly shows she's a woman of color.

* CourtroomAntics: Averted hard. The show goes out of its way to demonstrate realistic and fair trials, harshly criticizing characters that try to pull any moves on both sides. A prime example is when Emily pays her friend to observe a trial as an "expert", only to be immediately shut down and rebuked for her behavior.

* SoapboxSadie: Both Emily and Lola qualify, especially the former; though it should be noted that Lola goes to great depths not to let this affect her work as a judge. Lola's mother Roxy takes it UpToEleven.

* HollywoodLaw: "Fire and Rain" sees stolen property excluded as evidence because it was obtained through a search warrant with an error (the wrong witness' name). However, this is covered by the "good faith exception" to the exclusionary rule, as the police didn't know there was a problem with the search warrant, so they didn't commit intentional misconduct.