Legal Thriller

Begin with

1. Public Defender, Day One

   On your first day as a public defender, you are assigned a client accused of killing a judge. The judge was your mother.

   Your role: A new public defender

2. The Partner Track

   To make partner at the city's top firm, you must win one case: defending the company that poisoned your hometown's water.

   Your role: An ambitious associate

3. Juror Nine

   You are on the jury of the trial of the decade. On day three, a note in your coat pocket tells you how to vote, and who will die if you do not.

   Your role: A juror

Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.