The #1 Lawyer

Move over,John Grisham! Biloxi’s best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his wife is murderedand he becomes the nation’s #1 suspect. Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoesPenney is BiloxiMississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victoryhis wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streakdamaging his reputation and ruining his career. That’s when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beachshowing up to court in flip-flopsmentoring a law studentthe new Penney is at first unrecognizable. It’s said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney’s accused of murderthe #1 Lawyer will find a way to triumph.