On Friday Paramount+ unveiled the trailer and key art for the legal drama’s latest season, which will see a shift in dynamics for both Diane Lockhart and Liz Lawrence . In the fifth season, Diane is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run a Black law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers.
The trailer also teases Mandy Patinkin’s Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop. The upcoming season will take on anti-Black discrimination and lack of diversity in the work place, the economic aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and more. Season five, which will drop on Paramount+ Thursday, June 24, also features Sarah Steele, Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi, Zach Grenier and Charmaine Bingwa. New episodes of the 10-episode long season will drop weekly on Thursday.
Robert and Michelle King serve as showrunners and executive producers of the series, which they co-created with Phil Alden Robinson. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Brooke Kennedy, Liz Glotzer, William Finkelstein, Jonathan Tolins and Jacquelyn Reingold also serve as executive producers. The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions. The series is distributed worldwide by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group.