Bad Lawyer

To keep his practice alive, a desperate lawyer takes a case defending a battered wife. Just seven years after he left law school, Sid Kaplan was one of New York╔s top defense attorneys. With a glittering style and a hunger for competition, he was as fierce as they come. He was the go-to lawyer for Manhattan╔s toughest, flashiest criminals - until his mother╔s death wrecked his confidence. Suddenly, the only way to sustain his sixteen-hour days was a ceaseless stream of cocaine and scotch, a combination that ruined his life╔s work in a matter of months. His only remaining employees are Caleb and Julia - a pair of ex-clients who don╔t mind working for irregular pay. Sid╔s latest bum case is Priscilla Sweet, a drug addict with priors, violent tendencies, and a dead husband whom she may or may not have killed in self-defense. She also has dangerous friends, which means that defending Prissy will make Sid famous again - either on the front page, or in the obituaries.