Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, a man with dangerous friends.

With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Backman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. Smuggled out of the country, he is given a new identity and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past.

Adam Hall is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. Why would he want a complete novice to defend him?

An 11-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A U.S. State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to speak, but the killer wants him silenced forever.

After graduating from Harvard as a law student, Mitch takes a job with the firm. They are prepared to match and exceed his wildest goals, but Mitch is unprepared for what they expect in return.

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. When Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington DC every week.

In 1970, The Ford County Times, one of Mississippi's weekly newspapers, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out, Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgittt family.

Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem.

In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the juror's increasingly odd behaviour.

Michael was in a hurry, he was scrambling up the ladder in a law firm and the money was good. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, his assailant did not. Soon Michael was in the street and on the run.