Palavra-chave Pro Bono

Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) é um homem com deficiência mental que cria sua filha Lucy (Dakota Fanning) com uma grande ajuda de seus amigos. Porém, assim que faz 7 anos Lucy começa a ultrapassar intelectualmente seu pai, e esta situação chama a atenção de uma assistente social que quer Lucy internada em um orfanato. A partir de então Sam enfrenta um caso virtualmente impossível de ser vencido por ele, contando para isso com a ajuda da advogada Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), que aceita o caso como um desafio com seus colegas de profissão.

In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST. It was cancelled after its 13-episode run on March 31, 2006. The series was simulcast in Canada on CTV. In the UK In Justice was shown on UKTV Gold beginning September 17, 2006 and was later repeated on ABC1 in 2007.

Twenty years ago, Dashan and Yoyo, who was the girlfriend of his brother Dajiang, had smoked dope on the verandah. Dajiang was so angry that he beat Yoyo up. She fell off the building, and the scene was witnessed by an ugly girl named Xiaoxian. Dashan is now a maverick lawyer who does lots of pro bono work. He is attached to the firm of his mentor, Chen Guo. Old Bao, a private investigator, and Alvin, a ruffian, often help him with his cases. His girlfriend, Sun Kaili, works in the same law firm as he does.