This Is the Law

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This manwha is pretty decent.

The main character goes back in time after his death and gets an extra ability from the King of Hell to help him in his second life. He's involved in judicial cases from the very moment of his regression, which happens to be the 2nd grade of middle school. I found the chapters where he helped people without even being a lawyer very entergtaining because he found legal ways to assist them thanks to his extensive knowledge of the Law, legal procedures, and loopholes.

Another satisfying aspect is the fact that the legal cases just keep coming from pretty much the ... second chapter without ever stopping, in rapid-fire succession. The cases the protagonist works on are almost always meaningful too, and he really goes out of his way to help people.

The translation that's commonly available online is also very good, and the translator frequently explains Korean legal terms allowing any reader to understand what's going on at any given moment.

It's a 7/10 though because the manhwa lacks 'soul', in my opinion. While it's nice to have dozens upon dozens of cases to entertain the readers, I feel like the more nuanced stuff like character development, relationship development, and relationship maintenance are lacking. It's kinda implied that all of the above happens off-screen but it ends up making the characters feel inhuman, in the sense that supposed friends and potential lover only contact the MC when they need his service, even though said friends/lover barely appear in dozens of chapters.

This is a problem with all manhwa that focus on stuff like career progression and/or office politics, though. They often go for telling instead of showing, which is insane to me considering that the medium of story telling is a comic. For example, they'll only show a career woman working in all the chapters she appears in, however occasionally they'll mention that she has 2 kids at home and is a single mother. Why not give her and the kids some panel space instead of mentioning this off-handedly? Heck, if the author really wants to he can just show her working at home while her kids are doing something in the background. The vast majority of the readers will not even remember this about her character in a few chapters and just think of her as a robotic workaholic.