Sydney Strait (Caitlin McGee) is a successful lawyer defending her corporate clients. Her father Elijah Strait (Jimmy Smits) is legendary civil rights lawyer defending the little guys. She's estranged from him due to his cheating on her mother. After her mother's death, she reluctantly agrees to rejoin his firm and the law is no longer a simple paycheck. It's a stressful fight to do right.
I don't buy Sydney in the pilot where she is a cold-hearted corporate lawyer. It's a long distance from that to working under her father. It would be more fitting if she is doing small time lost-cause cases. It doesn't make sense that she's goes from defending rights of the small guys to the rights of big corporations. Once the show gets pass the pilot, the show does improve a bit. The father daughter relationship gets more depth. It allows the group to operate and it turns into a functioning leftist network legal procedural. After 10 episodes, it's unlikely to get more.
I don't buy Sydney in the pilot where she is a cold-hearted corporate lawyer. It's a long distance from that to working under her father. It would be more fitting if she is doing small time lost-cause cases. It doesn't make sense that she's goes from defending rights of the small guys to the rights of big corporations. Once the show gets pass the pilot, the show does improve a bit. The father daughter relationship gets more depth. It allows the group to operate and it turns into a functioning leftist network legal procedural. After 10 episodes, it's unlikely to get more.