Picking one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of"The Good Wife", a huge fiscal scam has destroyed the standing of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while wiping out her mentor and also godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called"Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent lawyers.