Guru Barnaby Cutler and his alleged lover Paula Miles go on trial for murdering her husband. Confounding Judd's defense: Cutler's claim of amnesia, a charge that the guru is a drug peddler - and the sensational tactics of Paula's own attorney.
Judd's junior partner is both defender and defendant when he represents a young man named in a paternity suite by a disturbed college girl. Then the young lawyer, himself faces a morals charge - transporting the same girl across state lines.
Judd and Ben fight for distribution rights to a controversial film—a documentary made inside a mental hospital by patient Shelly Gould. The hospital refuses to release the film, claiming it will harm the rehabilitation of a newly released patient.
Judd represents Helen Wister, a reformed drunk facing a hit-and-run charge. But the lawyer can't get his defense off the ground, thanks to the unjustifiable decisions of the trial judge - an obsessive drinker who refuses to admit his alcoholism.