EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing Roman Law, a legal drama from writer and executive producer Jeremy Svenson, sources tell Deadline.
Reps for ABC declined to comment, as did reps for 20th Television, which we understand will serve as the studio.
The logline for Roman Law is as follows: When her father is exposed as a lifelong fraud who’s been practicing law without a license, his once-adoring daughter, who just finished law school to follow in his footsteps, must take over his financially troubled practice to save her family home and keep the man she thought she knew from going to prison.
As the son of a public-school teacher, Svenson worked as a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District to make ends meet while building his career as a writer. Subsequently working in writers rooms for everything from broadcast to cable to video games, he was the story editor on the CBS show Good Sam and staffed on 2019’s Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot BH90210. Previously, he wrote and produced on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles and wrote for a Game of Thrones-based interactive story for Telltale Games.
In recent weeks, 20th Television has inked a multi-year first-look deal with Will Trent‘s Ramón Rodríguez, and re-upped its overall deal with 9-1-1: Nashville showrunner Rashad Raisani. It also has set up a destination wedding comedy from Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster at Hulu and scored a two-season renewal for the King of the Hill revival falling under their animation division.
ABC, meanwhile, has seen Aseem Batra take on solo showrunner duties on their Scrubs reboot, announced development on music competition show Who’s in the Band, as well as a food truck-themed workplace comedy from David E. Kelley, Chrissy Teigen & Caroline Fox, and picked up the Scott Speedman pilot RJ Decker to series for midseason 2026.
Svenson is repped by Joe Riley at Zero Gravity Management and attorney Grace Kallis at Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
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