This Thursday at 9 p.m., TV Asahi presents episode 1 of "Shichinin Onna Bengoshi (Seven Women Lawyers)," which sounds like the "Seven Samurai" of the briefcase set.
Yumiko Shaku stars as Maki, a new recruit in an all-female law firm which has just won an unfair pay dispute case. The trial has attracted a great deal of media attention, and while a woman journalist is reporting the verdict live on the air, her producer is found stabbed nearby.
During their investigation, the police find the murder weapon in the locker of the producer's assistant, Yukie, and arrest her. Yukie, who went to school with Maki, asks her and her boss to represent her.