Arthur Winslow, the successful CEO of a Midwest hospital, begins an
affair with a beautiful hospital receptionist, unaware that she and her
husband are setting him up for an embarrassing and costly sexual
harassment claim. Hospital attorney Karen Hayes is called on to defend
Winslow against the claim, but she soon finds herself defending him
against a murder charge as well after his ailing wife dies from the
administration of a drug to which she was known to be allergic. Karen
enlists the aid of Matthew Stoker, a smooth, aggressive young trial
lawyer. At his law firm she discovers an abundance of unethical
practices. A trail of clues leads her to a long-forgotten file at the
firm--and a fight for her own life and that of her infant son.