Ally McBeal

Two friends enter into an agreement they intend to keep secret, but their lives start to implode, as the breadth of the decision unravels before them.

Caleb and Rachel team up to lead the Patrick Henry College team in the intense world of collegiate moot court competition. Caleb looks to date Rachel, but she's waiting for courtship. Meanwhile, Caleb becomes caught in a moral tug-of-war between his parents - a newly Christian father and a feminist attorney mother. Caleb's mom goes before the U.S. Supreme Court defending abortion, even as Caleb simultaneously takes on the opposing legal argument at the national moot court championship.

Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, serving on a sequestered jury during a murder trial, fall in love. She is divorced, he is married.

Two students, previously infatuated with each other, meet up again years later at university. They agree to go out on a date and initially everything seems fine. They meet friends at the pub, have a meal, and end up at a party with no inkling of the problems ahead. After leaving Clare at her flat, Jamie gets soaked in the rain and returns to Clare's and begs to stay the night. One thing lead to another and they spend the night together. The next day the recriminations start and Jamie is arrested for rape. At the trial, two very different versions of the night's events emerge as seen through the differing eyes of Clare and Jamie. The court must decide if it was an innocent misunderstanding or a deliberate rape.

Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns after an innocent young man is convicted and the real murderer confesses too late. He opens a cheap law office and his secretary Joan Reed goes with him. Business is bad until he ties up with J.B. Roscoe, the contact man between city hall and the underworld. Forbes moves to a swanky office and adds two people to his staff - his younger brother John, who he helped through law school, and Celia Farraday. Celia helps John win his first case and the two fall in love. John realizes his brother's firm isn't honest and wants to break the underworld contact. He opens Steve's safe for federal authorities hunting evidence against Roscoe. But the latter plants enough circumstantial evidence against John that he is convicted of murder and sent to death row.

The intersecting lives of a talented and struggling artist, Emma, and her ambitious and brash young lawyer, Henry. Inspired by true events.