Synopsis

Takako Mamiya: Elite Lawyer Turned Underdog

Mamiya Takako passed the bar exam while studying law at the University of Tokyo and became a top-tier lawyer at a major law firm. Specializing in corporate law as an international business attorney, she built her career over 10 years alongside colleague Hirosawa Yoshiyuki, earning recognition as one of the legal industry’s “rising stars.” However, feeling undervalued at Otawara Law Firm despite her abilities, she decides to leave and start her own practice, inviting Hirosawa to join her.

But the firm’s senior partner Otawara catches wind of her plan. Using a paperwork error from one of Takako’s past cases as leverage, he successfully convinces Hirosawa and the other lawyers and staff who planned to leave with her to stay. As a result, Takako ends up launching her firm with only a receptionist and Yanagida Toshifumi, an international business lawyer she hastily recruited.

With no sales experience, Takako struggles to find new clients. She’s forced to take on small cases she never handled before—divorce proceedings, family court matters, and general civil cases for individual clients. Initially dismissing these as “bottom-tier work,” Takako gradually discovers something she’d forgotten as a lawyer and rediscovers what truly matters as a human being through these seemingly modest cases.