Though Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard play adversaries, they have been real life brothers in law since Sarsgaard married Jake's sister Maggie in 2009 and actually get along great.
Bill Camp (Raymond Horgan) and Elizabeth Marvel (Lorraine Horgan) have been married since 2004. They have played a married couple several times before, notably in Lincoln (in which they play a couple who visits President Lincoln to ask him to adjudicate a tollbooth dispute but end up inadvertently revealing the Northern states' racism and opposition to the end of slavery) and in a 1999 Theatre for a New Audience production of Macbeth, in which they portrayed the notoriously villainous title characters.
The last production to be shot on the old Warner Brothers ranch. First used in the 1930s for film and TV productions (Blondie, The Three Stooges, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Waltons, Christmas Vacation, Friends, and others) and razed to the ground in 2023/24 to make way for 16 sound stages.
The first television adaptation of the 1987 novel of the same name, by Scott Turow. There was a 1990 film adaptation, starring Harrison Ford, which received generally favorable reviews.
Part of the reason Jake Gyllenhaal was drawn to the role was the prospect of working with both David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams, who are both executive producers of the show. Abrams was the co-creator of Lost : Les Disparus (2004), and Kelley was the creator of Ally McBeal (1997) and Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), among many others.