Nina, a dedicated, career-driven corporate attorney has a very public meltdown after getting passed over for an expected promotion and finds herself practicing down and dirty law in the only place that will hire herâthe Public Defenderâs office. A fish out of bottled water, Nina has to learn the difference between book smarts vs. people smarts in order to win her cases. Although her life is turned upside down by her sudden career downgrade, Nina tenaciously fights for her off-center clients, with weekly cases ranging from silly to surreal.