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Lawyers and lifelong friends Jared Franklin and Peter Bash are recruited by a large firm's major partner after winning a high-profile case.

Since graduating from law school, ultimate frat buddies Peter Bash, an gorgeous stud who enjoys showing off his muscles and skin -on occasion publicly naked- and small but even wittier Jared Franklin, son of a star lawyer, founded a small law firm to indulge their libertarian approach to law and society, assisted by phobias-crushed office researcher Pindar Singh and a bold girl private investigator, preferring unusual cases. Stanton Infeld, the obscenely rich managing senior partner of prestigious law firm of Infeld Daniels, shocks his nephew and conservative lieutenant Damien Karp by recruiting the knavish pair as junior partners whose out of the box tactics impress him. They don't just enjoy the perks of fancy offices -ordering the wall between them removed- but aim at high-profile cases, as second, third of even first chair, and get results.

Franklin and Bash defend a woman charged with murdering her husband with sex. Sensing that either the judge or the jury is in on the take, the guys use unorthodox tactics to get justice for their client.

A plain jane woman who believes she was wrongly let go from her job at a men's magazine for being too good-looking comes to Infeld Daniels looking for legal representation. Meanwhile, the man-cave's overwhelming technology causes the server to crash, leaving everyone disconnected from their respective gadgets.

Peter and Jared decide that for them to win the case of pole-dancing instructors Simone Winters and Amber North, charged with stealing from their wealthy clients, they have to go against each other in court. This soon stirs unprecedented real rivalry, testing their friendship, also in private and romance, apparently without impressing the prosecutor, but the not-amused judge walks into their trap. Karp and -flirted- Hanna defend 13-year-old genius boy Alex Carlisle, whose father is taking him to court over his wish to kayak the Amazon without major survival experience, but actually depends on the ever-helpful knave.

When Infeld's niece Lily is arrested for drug possession during a visit to their house, Peter and Jared work to gain her freedom while keeping the news from her uncle. Meanwhile, a surprise visit from an ex-con boyfriend puts Carmen in danger of being jailed for a parole violation.

Peter (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is asked to defend ex-girlfriend Janie Ross's (Claire Coffee) fiancé Nathan Connor (guest star James Van Der Beek) in a prostitution case. And as representing a teacher accused of having sex with a student (guest star Alexandra Breckenridge) pits Jared (Breckin Meyer) against his old high school headmaster, the discovery of a long-missing body in Alaska spells trouble for Infeld (Malcolm McDowell).

After agreeing to help a reviled and terminally ill financier Carter Lang (guest star Jason Alexander) repay the investors he defrauded, Franklin & Bash (Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) face an ethical thicket when he changes his mind after his diagnosis is found to be a mistake. Meanwhile, Karp and Hanna use Pindar to persuade an eccentric multimillionaire businesswoman (guest star Sarayu Rao) to hire their law firm.

A family is torn as one side sues the other over a priceless 1988 home-run baseball in a case that pits Jared against his own father. Meanwhile, Peter works with Hanna on defending a reality television father who is affectionately known as the "Douchey Dad." And Karp comes to Pindar for help on a top-secret project involving a compromising video.

Peter and Jared are approached by a man who believes he's a super-hero intent on ridding the city of crime. He's in jail, charged with homicide, and he needs their help. They are loving the case until Peter's mother shows up, and then Janie returns as the DA, and then Janie announces they're upping the charge to first-degree murder.

While being manipulated by a scheming law partner (guest star Tricia Helfer), Franklin & Bash (Breckin Meter and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) must prove Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) is innocent of murdering his best friend during a mountain climbing expedition fifteen years ago. Hanna (Garcelle Beauvais) lends a hand when a younger challenger and a pair of greedy promoters threaten an aging professional wrestler's career.

Stanton proposes that Franklin and Bash become partners in the firm. This requires them to play the corporate game, and Jared and Peter are having a tough time suing the owner of a small brewery over copyright infringement on behalf of their big league client. Meanwhile, they defend an old friend of theirs who was arrested by cop whom he thought was just a woman dressed up in a costume. The case isn't going well for Peter because he's more interested in how attractive the cop is.

Peter is happy to take on as client former frat buddy Danny 'Double D' Dubois, whom Jared can't forgive having showered with his then girlfriend years ago, now falsely accused of causing a car crash while rushing in a golf cart to a brothel, allegedly drunk again from beer his grandmother -with whom he lives, having been sacked- stocks only for him. Stanton Infeld mistrusts Karp, given his romantic break-up with Hanna, so gives Jared the lead the fat divorce case client Rick Paxton starts against her tycoon husband Rick, who happens to have the same mistress, and a macho-embarrassing secret which allows Jared to arrange a surprise outcome.

Jared is temporarily serving as judge at a small claims court, but one fair ruling has declared him as murderer of rock and roll. Jared and Peter then defend the young owner of a famous music club but go up against Franklin senior in court. Pindar's therapist has been revealed as a fraud but Stanton Infeld is defending him and forces Pindar to face some of his many fears.

Franklin and Bash are hesitant about representing a man who held up a pizza place with a cheese gun, but when they suggest to Damien to switch cases and he jumps at the chance, they know something worse is just around the corner. They are now representing Stanton's second and fourth ex-wife who, in her words, rescued a dog, but in legal terms stole a dog.

A high-profile judge (Don McManus) asks Peter and Jared to defend him after he is arrested for having an affair with a lawyer while presiding over her cases. Sexual tension builds between Peter and Janie (Claire Coffee). And Karp defends a college friend (Tuc Watkins) who needs to prove that he is gay in order to keep a championship softball trophy.

Peter and Jared are working on a case in which a former chop-shop worker (Gino Anthony Pesi) is accused of a pre-meditated attack. As they start selecting jurors for the case, the duo begin to receive a lot of unsolicited advice. Infeld-Daniels' summer associate program partners a young law student (Danielle Panabaker) with lawyers at the firm.

Peter and Jared ask Hanna to help them handle the court martial of two Navy sailors (Kayla Ewell and Gabrielle Dennis) accused of assaulting fellow personnel, but Hanna has ulterior motives for coming to their aid. To make matters worse, the sailors' commanding officer (Joanna Cassidy) has little confidence in their defense team. Elsewhere, Pindar arbitrates a dispute between the co-owners of a virtual business. And Karp finds himself walking a human-resources tightrope over a previous encounter with one of the firm's summer associates (Tiffany Dupont).

Peter and Jared help a widow (Anne Ramsay) retain the body of her esteemed late husband from being awkwardly immortalized as a dancer in a human body exhibit. When a stalker begins harassing Stanton Infeld, Karp thinks it may be an old client just released from prison and out for revenge. Hanna runs into an old college friend (Boris Kodjoe) and sparks an old romance.

Peter and Jared must clear their name when a former client (Carla Gallo) is arrested for skipping trial, only to accuse her two lawyers of paying her to disappear. While under investigation, the scene flashes back to how the dynamic legal duo of Franklin and Bash (along with Pindar and Carmen) came to be.

When Jared's father, Leonard Franklin (Beau Bridges) attempts to buy the firm from Stanton Infeld, Peter and Jared fight to save it. Peter also comes to the rescue of an old high school friend (Chris Klein) who is running for governor and wants to drop out of the race due to a scandal.

After legal heavyweight Rachel King (Heather Locklear) humiliates Franklin & Bash on national television, Stanton hires her to help run the firm. Peter and Jared represent a famous magician (guest star Adam Goldberg) after a bracelet vanishes and never reappears. Damien intentionally re-releases an embarrassing viral video with hopes to expedite his judicial appointment. Pindar finds a termite in his bed and has the house tented, but staying on the outside proves too difficult and results in the Man Cave's destruction.

The gang moves into Infeld's beach house and Peter is quick to pursue their beautiful neighbor, Charlie (guest star Nikki Whelan). Jared and Peter must prove a veteran is alive after a clerical error wrongfully pronounced him deceased and he is poised to lose his house. Karp is increasingly concerned about Infeld's erratic behavior, which comes to a head when he befriends a Ukrainian drive-through worker and plans to marry her for a visa extension so she can pursue the American dream.

The guys make a bet with Rachel as to which of their cases will benefit the firm the most. Hers is about a psychic wrongfully terminated from her job; theirs involves piracy and a one man fishing boat.

As bad as it is that Peter has discovered his mother is working as a sexual surrogate, it's even worse when he has to defend her in court after she is arrested for prostitution.