A romantic romp through the technicalities of the legal profession – the dark, the light sides and, above all, the enlightening side.
Benjamin Thicket is a young lawyer with principles. He defies the conventions of his contemporaries and falls for the prettiest girl in the law club. He has his friends and his adversaries but he strives to protect the less wealthy, the less well connected, until one of his cases yields to him a sum of six million dollars.
After this, the object of his romance, Jane Bower, becomes far more accepting. Then a case occurs where he has to test his honesty against the combined forces of big business and big government. Jane is the opposing lawyer. She wins the court case but loses to the conniving ways of a multi-national company. With a friend Ben puts things right.
The main characters are real heroes, ordinary people who buck the system, and even the villains are amusing. The boundaries between good and evil are blurred but justice of a centre-left variety wins the day.