The
partners at Finley and Figg -all two of them- often refer to themselves as
"a boutique law firm." Boutique, as in chic, selective, and
prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a
two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who've
been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so
to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an
actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and
Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch
out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago. And then change
comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but
already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy
downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the
doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the
fact that he's suddenly unemployed, any job even one with Finley and Figg looks okay to him. With their new associate on board, F and F is ready to
tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without
requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug,
Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight,
produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of
$25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have
suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money. A little online research confirms
Wally's suspicions a huge plaintiffs' firm in Florida is putting together a class action
suit against Varrick. All Finley and Figg has to do is find a handful of
people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become
clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any
luck, they won't even have to enter a courtroom! It almost seems too good to be
true. And it is.
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