The article discusses the courtroom cases and their artistic originality in contemporary American writer John Grisham’s works. His works concern the complex social problems that are relevant to contemporary American reality (race relations, the death penalty, corruption), and they offer detailed descriptions of the problems and shortcomings in the actions of the judiciary, the legal system, and the state. Literary critics have noted Grisham’s significant contribution to the development of this trend in American detective prose. Noting that the plot of his legal thrillers, as in any type of detective narrative, is center around a crime, its investigation, and disclosure, scholars, emphasizing the importance of the figure of the detective for the development of a detective plot, determine the name of this type of detective story—legal thriller—proceeds directly from the central place of lawyer means of attaining justice available to him. Accordingly, the main actors in the novels of John Grisham are investigators, judges, lawyers, and the goal is to reveal how the legal system works and how justice is done. The artistic space in which the development of legal thrillers by John Grisham takes place appears as a field of activity for large, powerful social structures from which human content has been completely stripped. In order to expose the inhumanity of the laws governing their activities, most of his works are based on the duel between the main characters and a complex system of social structures for the administration of justice.