Heart's Decree (Spanish: La ley del corazón) is a Colombian telenovela created by Mónica Agudelo Tenorio and adapted for television by Felipe Agudelo. It is dedicated to the memory of Agudelo after her death in 2012. It started airing on Colombian broadcast channel RCN Televisión on November 28, 2016. The series is available in 4K Ultra-high-definition television.
It stars Luciano D'Alessandro as Pablo Domínguez and Laura Londoño as Julia Escallón, with Sebastián Martínez, Iván López, Mabel Moreno, Lina Tejeiro, Rodrigo Candamil, Manuel Sarmiento, Mario Ruíz, Yesenia Valencia, Carlos Benjumea, Judy Henríquez, Laura de León and Juan Pablo Barragán in the main roles respectively.
On June 12, 2017, RCN Televisión confirmed that the series would be renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 10, 2018. The show ended on April 22, 2019.
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Plot summary
The series takes place in a successful law firm specialized in family law, dedicated to cases of separation and in general to family and relationship conflicts. Pablo Domínguez (Luciano D'Alessandro), a partner at the firm Cabal-Ortega-Domínguez and associates, is going through a difficult situation in his life when separating from his wife Jimena (Carolina Acevedo). Suddenly, the lawyer meets his colleague Julia Escallón (Laura Londoño), who is about to marry Camilo Borrero (Sebastián Martínez), but a twist of fate will change her life and bring her closer to Pablo. The show features the love triangle between Julia, Pablo, and Camilo, and the twists and turns in the love lives of the other lawyers in the firm, with their personal lives often mirrored in the legal cases they are defending.
Cast
Main
Luciano D'Alessandro as Pablo Domínguez
Laura Londoño as Julia Escallón
Sebastián Martínez as Camilo Borrero
Laura de León as Lucía Vallejo
Iván López as Nicolás Ortega
Mabel Moreno as María del Pilar Garcés
Lina Tejeiro as Catalina Mejía
Rodrigo Candamil as Alfredo Duperly
Manuel Sarmiento as Iván Estéfan
Mario Ruíz as Elías Rodríguez
Yesenia Valencia as Rosa Ferro
Carlos Benjumea as Hernando Cabal
Judy Henríquez as Carmen Valdenebro
Juan Pablo Barragán as Marcos Tibatá
Jorge Cao as Alonso Duarte
Alejandra Borrero as Adela Zambrano
Fernando Arévalo as Murcial Mahecha
Mario Espitia as Valentín Bechara
Giovanna Andrade as Macarena Soler
Carlos Congote as Tony Ricaurte
Recurring
Carolina Acevedo as Jimena Rivera
Luz Stella Luengas as Tereza de Rivera
Amparo Conde as Dolores Lolita
Victoria Góngora as Isabel Triana de Rodríguez
Jairo Camargo as Ramón Duperly
María Helena Doering as Beatriz de Duperly
Juan Pablo Posada as Roberto Martínez
Helena Mallarino as María Cristina Correa
Luis Fernando Bohórquez as Miguel
Kimberly Reyes as Ana María
Carolina López as Patricia Ramírez
Estefanía Borge as Manuela Cáceres
Mauricio Mejía as Darío
Marianela González as Irene
Brenda Hanst as Liliana González
Javier Gnecco as Jaime Escallón
Tuto Patiño as Patricio "Pato"
Johan Velandia as Álvaro Durán
Nicolás Rincón as Andrés Borrero
Luly Bossa as Luisa Fernanda Barrera
Carmenza Cossío as Helena Londoño
Florina Lemaitre as Natalia Santamaría
Adaptations
After the success in Colombia, Televisa made an adaptation of the telenovela with the title of Por amar sin ley, this adaptation was released in 2018. On October 18, 2017, it was confirmed that the main actress of the series Grey's Anatomy Ellen Pompeo, would produce a version of the telenovela for the United States with the title of Big Law. On October 19, 2017, Mega acquired the rights to the telenovela to make its own version.