A courtroom drama built on friction, Ligas follows a defense lawyer whose talent for winning unwinnable cases is matched only by his talent for making enemies.
What is Ligas about?
Set in Milan, the series centers on Lorenzo Ligas, a lawyer known for taking on clients everyone else has given up on. His methods are unorthodox and his ego often gets in the way, but his instinct for finding an argument nobody else sees keeps clients coming back. Paired with an idealistic young trainee named Marta, whose sense of justice hasn't yet been worn down by the profession, Lorenzo is forced to reckon with the gap between what the law allows and what he believes is right. Each case becomes a small battlefield where legal strategy, personal history, and professional reputation collide, and the mentor-trainee dynamic gives the show a second engine alongside its courtroom plotting.
About the cast
Luca Argentero leads as Lorenzo Ligas, with Marina Occhionero and Barbara Chichiarelli rounding out a cast built around the friction between an established lawyer and the people orbiting his cases.
Context & significance
Ligas arrives as part of a steady stream of Italian legal and crime dramas that have found international audiences through streaming, offering courtroom stakes rooted in a distinctly Milanese setting rather than the more familiar American procedural template. Director Fabio Paladini keeps the pacing tight, favoring character friction over courtroom pyrotechnics. The 2026 series adds to K-Time's growing slate of European drama for viewers looking beyond English-language legal shows. Milan's setting gives the series a visual identity distinct from courtroom dramas set in more commonly filmed cities, and the show leans on that specificity rather than treating the city as interchangeable backdrop, which gives the ongoing mentor-trainee thread room to breathe between cases.
Watching Ligas on Ktime
Ligas is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, and the platform's Farsi-language navigation makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to find and follow European drama series like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue.