While there are a total of seven spin-offs of the original Law & Order (1990), including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) , Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Conviction (2006), Law & Order: UK (2009), Law & Order: LA (2010), and Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), Law & Order: True Crime (2017) is the first produced as a mini-series.
Edie Falco was nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for her role as Leslie Abramson in Law & Order True Crime (2017), but lost to Regina King from Seven Seconds (2018).
Actress Julianne Nicholson previously appeared as recurring character Detective Megan Wheeler on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
Chris Bauer and Bailey Nobel previously worked on True Blood.
Chris Bauer (Tim Rutten) & Bailey Noble (Jamie Pisarcik) also worked together on True Blood (2008) as Andy Bellefleur & Adilyn Bellefleur respectively.