 Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are the <unk> partners of a small law firm in the South Side of Chicago . Oscar 's character holds the firm together despite the childish and <unk> behavior of Wally , his junior partner . Their <unk> is often mediated by Rochelle , the highly competent African American secretary , who had learned a lot of law in he eight years in the office . Meanwhile David Zinc , a graduate of the Harvard Law School , is completely fed up with the grinding and <unk> - though well @-@ paid - life of an Associate in the giant law firm of Rogan <unk> , where in five years of work he had never seen the inside of a courtroom . He suddenly breaks away , goes on a drinking binge and by chance finds himself at the Finley & Figg office . Feeling an elevating sense of freedom and <unk> never to go back , <unk> willingly <unk> himself to working for the two <unk> street lawyers and ambulance chasers . 
