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Vincent Bugliosi was a prominent U.S. lawyer known for his career as a prosecutor. He gained significant recognition through his work securing the conviction of Charles Manson and members of his cult on multiple murder charges in 1971. As Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, Bugliosi...

Preet Bharara is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until his dismissal in 2017. His office prosecuted cases involving financial fraud, insider trading, organized crime, terrorism, and public corruption. After leaving government se...

Fatou Bensouda is a Gambian lawyer and international criminal prosecutor who served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2012 to 2021. She was the first woman and the first African to lead the Office of the Prosecutor, after previously serving as the court's Deputy Prosecutor. Her...

Loretta Lynch is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position. Before her appointment as Attorney General, Lynch served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern D...

Andrew Weissmann is an American attorney who served as a lead prosecutor on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Previously, he directed the FBI's organized crime section and led the Enron Task Force, securing convictions against several form...

Diary of a Prosecutor is a South Korean television legal drama broadcast by JTBC beginning in 2019. Based on essays by former prosecutor Kim Woong, it follows prosecutors working in a regional office and emphasizes their daily caseloads, workplace relationships, and bureaucratic pressures rather tha...

Mary Jo White is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who became the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Her office handled major terrorism, organized crime, and financial cases during her tenure. President Barack Obama later appointed her chair o...

Patrick J. Fitzgerald is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 2001 to 2012. He also acted as special counsel in the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, which led to the prosecution and 2007 convict...

Witch at Court is a 2017 South Korean KBS2 legal drama starring Jung Ryeo-won as a prosecutor assigned to a sex crimes task force.

Janet King is an Australian legal and political drama television series that aired on ABC from 2014 to 2017. A spin-off of the 2011 series Crownies, it stars Marta Dusseldorp reprising her role as Janet King, a formidable Senior Crown Prosecutor who later serves as a Royal Commissioner. The series f...

Jack Smith is an American lawyer and prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, appointed in November 2022. In 2023, he secured federal indictments against former President Donald Trump on charges related to the retention of classified documents and efforts...

Sally Yates is an American lawyer who served as a federal prosecutor, United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, deputy attorney general, and briefly acting attorney general. In January 2017 she directed the Department of Justice not to defend President Donald Trump's initial trave...

James Comey is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 until President Donald Trump dismissed him in May 2017. Earlier roles included United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and deputy attorney gene...

Amy Klobuchar is a U.S. Senator from Minnesota (elected 2006) and former Hennepin County Attorney who ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Rudy Giuliani is an American attorney and former mayor of New York City who gained prominence prosecuting Mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney in the 1980s.

Conviction is a 2006 NBC legal drama from Dick Wolf, notable as a Law & Order related series with Stephanie March reprising Alexandra Cabot.

Geraldine Ferraro was an American lawyer and congresswoman who in 1984 became the first woman nominated for Vice President on a major U.S. party ticket, as Walter Mondale's running mate.

Fani Willis is the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney who in 2023 indicted Donald Trump and eighteen co-defendants under state RICO statutes over the 2020 election.

Marcia Clark is an American prosecutor and author who served as the lead prosecutor in the highly publicized 1995 O. J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles.

Christopher Darden is an American attorney, author, and lecturer who served as a co-prosecutor during the infamous 1995 criminal trial of O. J. Simpson.

Alvin Bragg is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Manhattan District Attorney since 2022, notably overseeing the criminal indictment of Donald Trump.

Chris Christie is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and later ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

Robert Hur served as Special Counsel and in 2024 issued a report on President Biden's handling of classified documents, concluding charges were not warranted.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2017–2019) who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

John Durham served as U.S. Attorney for Connecticut and as Special Counsel appointed in 2020 to investigate the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation.

Former Georgia prosecutor turned television host whose HLN show Nancy Grace (2005–2016) covered high-profile criminal trials, including the 2011 Casey Anthony case, with a victim-advocacy approach.