Picking one year after the events of the last broadcast episode of"The Good Wife", a massive monetary scam has destroyed the reputation of a new lawyer, Maia Rindell, while wiping her out and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced from her law firm, today called"Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent attorneys.