When Cooper (Don Johnson) and Skip (Jay Baruchel) take on a client who has been paralyzed by her plastic surgeon, Cooper hopes to settle the malpractice suit out of court believing that they'll get a large settlement. When they learn that the opposing counsel has secured costly expert witnesses, pages of discovery documents and has damaging testimony on their client, Skip enlists the help from his friend Kate, (Susan Ward), who works for the defense's firm.