Arrogant, accident-prone solicitor Quentin Welcher defends a very controversial artwork, and the most horrible man alive.

Quentin wants to sack the new solicitor, Peter/Paul for being too nice, but instead ends up accepting an invitation to dinner. Kate and Quentin team up to help two of their friends divorce. As a result, Kate decides to spice up their own marriage with some fantasy role-play.

Kate has a win in the industrial court defending a group of textile workers, who then offer to make her a dress for the Women-In-The-Law Dinner. Quentin does a favour for an old client of his father and learns once and for all that charity doesn't pay.

Quentin returns to his old boarding school to get the board to repeal his son's expulsion, and faces some personal demons from his own time there.

Kate and Quentin take a proposal for a televised 'Hypothetical' to the ABC. At the meeting, Quentin is asked to be the legal advisor on the ABC's new drama series.

The drive team from a top-rating radio station meet with Peter/Paul for advice on defamation. The painters bring a worker's compensation claim against the Welchers and Quentin decides to conduct his own covert investigation.

During a power blackout, Quentin locks the entire staff in a stairwell on the hottest day of the year, while Kate has trouble on the way to pick up a Japanese investor from the airport.

Mr Buzzo is charged with armed robbery and attempted murder and the Wignall and Carrick case is finally going to trial. Peter/Paul's wife goes into labour but it's Quentin who is left holding the baby, with the two cases being heard simultaneously and no other barrister to assist. And the painters conceive a diabolical plan to extract their revenge on Welcher & Welcher.