Lawyer Peter Tanner is asked to defend a self-made construction mogul who is accused of killing her partner but, as he wades through construction and corruption, the situation gets as murky as the water at Botany Bay.
When the baby of a white supremacist couple dies in the care of an African-American nurse, they sue her for murder, exposing the racism against people of colour.
John Grisham returns to TV, setting his 22-part TV series 10 years after the 1993 film with lawyer Mitch McDeere coming out of the Witness Protection Program.