When wealthy Arthur Ketterson is accused of strangling the woman he was dating, he retains frontline litigator Sheilah Quinn. Sheilah is up for the job - even if it means confronting a host of professional problems. Her opposing counsel is a prosecutor who is running for attorney general and hopes the case will secure his position in the upcoming election. At the same time, she must deal with a judge who is sexually harassing her and defend a man who gives her a bad case of the creeps.